Redesigning Law Conference 2004

Jessica DeGroot, MBA-- President and Founder ThirdPath Institute. Primary conference organizer.

Dana Barron, PhD -- Executive Director of the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania.
Lisa Carney Eldridge, JD -- Of Counsel at Silverstein & Bellin, LLC
Deborah Epstein Henry, JD -- Founder and President of Flex-Time Lawyers.
Douglas N. Frenkel, JD, PhD -- Practice Professor of Law and Clinical Director at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
W. Jeffrey Garson, JD, LSW -- Psychotherapist and coach; President and Co-Founder, The Eccoes Foundation.
Sherise Lindsay -- Senior Consultant Booz Allen Hamilton
Sean Romanoff, JD, -- Adjunct Professor of English, Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
Nancy Rothbard, PhD-- Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business.
Debbie Zateeny, JD, -- Counsel at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll

Staff

Tina Armando Research and Project Coordinator, ThirdPath Institute. Primary conference organizer.
Hanne Weedon Vice President of Programs, ThirdPath Institute. Primary conference organizer.

Jessica DeGroot
Jessica DeGroot founded the non-profit the ThirdPath Institute in 1999. Jessica and the Institute have been featured in national and local newspapers and radio shows, including Working Mother magazine, Fast Company magazine, the National Public Radio show The Parents Journal. Jessica received her MBA from the Wharton School in 1994, where she was co-founder of the Wharton Work/Life Roundtable. She has been published in The Harvard Business Review, The American Woman 2003-2004: Daughters of a Revolution, and is co-author of the Wharton Work/Life Resource Guide. Jessica and her husband live in Philadelphia and share in the care of their two children.
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Dana Barron
Dana Barron earned her BA from Harvard, and her PhD in History from Penn (1995). She teaches, researches, and writes on gender, work, and family; public policy; and history. Recent research projects include "A Change of Pace: Accelerating Women's Progress" with Womens Way and Solutions for Progress. She is currently conducting research for a book on gender and the under-valuation of care work. Dana designed and directs the Alice Paul Center's "Policy Partnerships Program," which involves researchers and students in collaborative work with community organizations throughout the Delaware Valley. She has consulted with a number of public and non-profit organizations, including Womens Way, Philadelphia Cares, the Philadelphia Department of Public Health, the University Community Collaborative of Philadelphia, the Health Federation of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Foundation. Dana has lectured to community organizations and at many colleges and universities, including Penn, Brown, Mount Holyoke, and the University of Michigan.
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Lisa Carney Eldridge
Lisa Carney Eldridge is Of Counsel to the law firm of Silverstein & Bellin, LLC, practicing primarily in the field of commercial litigation with a special interest in commercial fraud and insurance insolvency. She was formerly a litigation partner at Fox Rothschild, LLP, a large Philadelphia-based law firm. Lisa was the first person at Fox Rothschild to be elected partner while working a reduced-hours schedule and played a leadership role in changing the personnel policies to allow for part-time work for associates and partners. She was named as one of the Philadelphia Business Journal's "Forty under Forty," an annual recognition of promising young professionals. Lisa received her B.A, magna cum laude, in Political Science and English from Colgate University and her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. Lisa and her husband share in the care of their three daughters.
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Deborah Epstein Henry
Deborah Epstein Henry founded Flex-Time Lawyers LLC, a networking and support group with a mailing list of over 1000 lawyers who work a flexible and/or reduced schedule in Philadelphia and New York. She has garnered press coverage for her work in the area of work/life balance in the law from The New York Times, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, The National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, ABA Journal, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Legal Intelligencer, Working Mother, The Pennsylvania Lawyer, The Bencher, The Scarsdale Inquirer, The Southampton Press and Philadelphia Bar Reporter. Debbie is a commercial litigator and Of Counsel to the Philadelphia-based law firm of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP. Debbie also is a consultant. She focuses on the issue of attorney retention, with a particular emphasis on retaining women lawyers. She has an expertise in making flexible and reduced schedules a win-win situation for lawyers as well as their employers and clients. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University and her J.D. Cum Laude from Brooklyn Law School. Following law school, she clerked for the Honorable Jacob Mishler in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
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Douglas Frenkel
Douglas Frenkel has overseen the development of Penn’s nationally renowned clinical program since 1980. He specializes in alternative dispute resolution generally and mediation in particular. He is the author of innovative teaching materials and videotapes in this field, frequently serves as a mediator in employment, commercial and institutional matters, and is currently writing a book on mediation skills and ethics for a major publisher. Doug’s other major area of expertise is legal ethics, having been a founding faculty member of the Law School's Center on Professionalism. He regularly teaches courses in legal ethics and consults with lawyers on matters of professional responsibility and lawyer liability.
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W.Jeffrey Garson
Jeffrey Garson is a psychotherapist and coach who maintains a private practice in center city and suburban Philadelphia, specializing in work with couples and men. He also works part-time as a therapist at a community mental health center. Jeffrey is president of the Eccoes Foundation, a public foundation that offers programming that explores the intersection between social justice and personal growth and provides grants to individuals and organization that explore this intersection. Jeffrey received a JD degree in 1973, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and served as an editor of The University of Pennsylvania’s Law Review. He earned a Masters of Social Services degree from the Bryn Mawr College School of Social Work in 2002.
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Sherise Lindsay
Sherise Lindsay is a Senior Consultant working on Booz Allen Hamilton's Diversity Team. She joined Booz Allen in 2001 - since that time, she has worked primarily on the Firm's work/life balance initiatives and special organizational transformation projects. She currently supports Booz Allen's organizational change initiative around diversity. Sherise holds a BA in International Relations and Jewish Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where she minored in both political science and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
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Sean Romanoff
Sean Romanoff graduated with B.A. with honors from the Ohio State University in 1990 and a J.D. from Rutgers School of Law - Newark in 1995. After graduating from Rutgers, Sean practiced law for three years as an associate with the Freehold, NJ firm of Sonnenblick, Parker and Selvers specializing in real estate, commercial, securities and litigation practice. Upon the birth of his son in 1998, Sean decided to leave the practice of law to become a full-time stay-at-home parent. Sean has continued in this role to this day, having added a daughter to his care in 2000. In Fall 2002, Sean became an Adjunct Professor of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus and teaches introductory composition and literature courses at the school.
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Nancy Rothbard
Nancy Rothbard is Assistant Professor of Management at the Wharton school of Business. Previously, she taught at Northwestern University, and was a research associate and case writer at Harvard Business School. She was awarded the Likert Dissertation Award, and the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Award for Excellence in Teaching, both from the University of Michigan, where she received her Ph.D. in 1998. She also has a BA from Brown University. She has been published in the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, and the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
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Debbie Zateeny
Debbie practices law in the Philadelphia office of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP. Debbie concentrates her practice on the law of nonprofit corporations and tax-exempt organizations. Her clients’ operations are international, national, regional and local in scope. Debbie taught at the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1984 until joining Ballard Spahr in 1993. Prior to teaching, Debbie was in private practice in Philadelphia following her 1977 graduation from Villanova University School of Law. Debbie has served as a panelist for seminars on a variety of issues sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Penn State Tax Conference and PICPA Foundation. Debbie is a single parent, has two children and has worked alternative schedules since the birth of her first child in 1982.
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Tina Armando
Tina Armando has been with the ThirdPath Institute for two years. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania where she earned her honors BA in Sociology (2001). Before joining ThirdPath she worked as a social science researcher at the University of Pennsylvania and played a significant role in projects concerning education policy in Philadelphia, urban inequalities, teenage pregnancy, and the transition to adulthood. Personal research interests and volunteer work focused on gender led Tina to the ThirdPath Institute.
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Hanne Weedon
Hanne Weedon has worked with the ThirdPath Institute since its inception, before which she did nonprofit development work for 15 years in both public radio and women’s health organizations. As cofounder of a 2,500-employee association at the University of Pennsylvania, she did extensive alliance-building work with administration and staff. In addition, Hanne has worked extensively with parents, teens and young children in a variety of settings, specifically through the Re-Evaluation Co-Counseling Communities. Hanne received her BA from Swarthmore College.
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