Montgomery McCracken Partner Jeremy Mishkin Appointed Trustee of Newly Formed Awesome Foundation in Philadelphia
October 2, 2013
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PHILADELPHIA-Montgomery McCracken is pleased to announce that Jeremy Mishkin, chair of the firm’s Litigation Department, has been appointed a trustee of the Philadelphia Chapter of The Awesome Foundation. The Foundation, whose Philadelphia Chapter was formed in August 2013, distributes a series of monthly $1,000 grants to projects and their creators with no strings attached and no claims to ownership over the projects that it supports.
Mishkin, a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Philadelphia office, focuses his practice on complex commercial matters, technology, the Internet and First Amendment/ Media Law issues. He has handled litigation and served as national and regional counsel for corporate clients who have been sued in numerous product liability lawsuits in multiple jurisdictions and has tried cases involving RICO, libel, computer hardware and software, complex mechanical products and industrial chemicals. Mishkin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and from Indiana University.
About The Awesome Foundation
The Awesome Foundation for the Arts and Sciences is a worldwide network of people “devoted to forwarding the interest of awesomeness in the universe.” Created in the summer of 2009 in Boston, the Foundation has grown to include 81 chapters in 16 countries worldwide. Its chapters are autonomous and organized by the trustees around geographic areas or topics of interest. For additional information, visit awesomefoundation.org.
About Montgomery McCracken
Montgomery McCracken is a multidisciplinary law firm with more than 120 attorneys in offices in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. Its attorneys provide full service to clients in a wide range of industries both nationwide and internationally. For more information, visit mmwr.com.