Pittsburgh, PA (PRWEB) July 01, 2013
Rothman Gordon is pleased to announce the Honorable Lawrence W. Kaplan (ret.) was chosen by The Legal Intelligencer as a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award. To commemorate The Legal Intelligencers 170th anniversary and to honor the excellent history of the legal profession in Pennsylvania, the publication decided to identify some of the most critical members of the legal neighborhood by presenting Lifetime Achievement Awards. The focus in selecting this group of noteworthy folks was to represent these figures who have helped to shape the law in Pennsylvania. The attorney must have had a distinct influence on the legal profession in the state and need to nevertheless be practicing the law.

Judge Kaplan served on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Family Mediators from 1982 1987 and is the founder and president emeritus of the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania. He also served on the editorial board of The Mediation Quarterly for over five years. His contributions to the field of mediation have been honored by the combined efforts of the Allegheny County Bar Associations Dispute Resolution Committee, the Pittsburgh Mediation Center, and the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania in 2004, who initiated the annual Lawrence W. Kaplan Lecture in Conflict Resolution. In October 2008, Judge Kaplan was named Loved ones Division Judge Emeritus by the Allegheny County Family Division for his 30 years of devoted service to the families of Allegheny County. He continues to practice mediation with the Pittsburgh firm Rothman Gordon.

Judge Kaplan is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. Active in the community, he currently serves on the boards of Alpha Home, Carriage Residence Childrens Center, and Pittsburgh Parental Pressure Center. He also serves on the advisory boards of Make contact with Pittsburgh, Bethlehem Haven, Pittsburgh Area Jewish Committee and WQED Multimedia. He resides in Oakland with his wife, Natalie. They have three adult young children: Tom, Ellen Teri and Jon two granddaughters: Samantha and Sydney Kaplan and one grandson, Matthew Seth Goldstein.

About Rothman Gordon
Rothman Gordon is a Pittsburgh-based law firm that has been advocating its clients’ interests since 1954. Rothman Gordon has produced a suite of services for people, organizations and closely-held and loved ones businesses. Areas of practice incorporate alternative dispute resolution enterprise and corporate law industrial actual estate litigation estate preparing and administration taxation and employee benefits financing and commercial loans employment and labor law employment litigation and social security disability.

Rothman Gordon is a member of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms.





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