As many of you in the legal community are aware, Raynes & Lawn suffered the unimaginable, tragic loss of our dear colleague, friend and family member, Amber Racine. She was a rising star, a young brilliant trailblazer, a servant leader in our legal community and beyond. Her accomplishments were dazzling, and her potential was […]
The Board of Directors of City Trusts, the agency charged with overseeing charitable trusts bequeathed to the city of Philadelphia, on Wednesday unanimously elected prominent city attorney Bernard W. Smalley Sr. as its president — the first African American ever to lead the board in its 151-year history. Smalley will lead a Board that administers […]
For Bernard W. Smalley, it all started in his father’s West Philadelphia barbershop. Perched on the shoeshine stand, a young Bernard W. Smalley watched as his father cut the hair and dispersed wisdom to some of Philadelphia’s greatest legal minds: William H. Hastie, the first African American to serve as chief judge of a U.S. […]