Helen E. Casale, Esquire
Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin
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2 West Lafayette Street
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Norristown, PA 19401-4758
(610) 313-1672
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www.hangley.com
| Helen E. Casale, a litigator, concentrates her practice in the area of domestic relations law, including child custody, divorce, support, adoption, property distribution, abuse actions and domestic partnership disputes. She has participated in the finalization of second-parent adoption matters in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. She represents domestic partners in custody, support and property division disputes. Ms. Casale has successfully argued in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey appellate courts on issues regarding custody, equitable distribution and alimony.
She is a 1994 graduate of Rutgers University School of Law-Camden, where she received the National Association of Women Lawyers Award. She received her B.A. in Communications from Lynchburg College, where she graduated cum laude in 1990. Ms. Casale served as a law clerk for the Honorable Martin A. Herman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Division, from 1994-1995. She was appointed by Governor Edward G. Rendell to serve on the Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial and Ethnic Fairness in 2005. She is admitted to the Bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Areas of Practice:
Family Law
Education:
Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, New Jersey, 1994
J.D.
Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1990
B.A.
Major: Communications
Clerkship:
The Honorable Martin A. Herman, Superior Court of New Jersey, Family Division, 1994-1995
Bar Admissions:
New Jersey, 1994
Pennsylvania, 1994
United States District Court for the Eastern District of New Jersey, 1994
United States Supreme Court, 2004
Honors and Awards
• Philadelphia Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award, 2006
• Pennsylvania Law Weekly – Lawyers on the Fast Track Honoree, 2005
• National Association of Women Lawyers Award, 1994
Recent Publications
• Author of numerous articles for Pennsylvania Bar Institute publications on various topics, including Equitable Distribution Updates, Custody Updates, Same-Sex Custody Issues, and Same-Sex Dissolution/Adoption Issues
• “New Definition of Family,” Philadelphia Magazine (Fall issue, 2005)
• The Rainbow Tribune, Newsletters for GLB&T Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association
• Article regarding reaction to In re: R.B.F., Legal Intelligencer (2001)
Professional Associations and Memberships
• Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Committee on the Legal Rights of Gay Men and Lesbians
• Member, Family Law Sections of the American, Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Bar Associations
• Member, New Jersey Bar Association
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Member, Montgomery Bar Association
• Member, Camden County Bar Association Family Law Committee
• Member, Nicholas A. Cipriani American Inn of Court
Teaching/Lecturing
• Frequent Pennsylvania Bar Institute speaker on a variety of family law topics
• Frequent presentations to Montgomery Bar Association Family Law Section
• Speaker at Annual Trial Judges Judicial Conference on same-sex custody issues (July 2006)
• Philadelphia Bar Association Bench Bar Conference – Speaker on Same-Sex Marriage Issues (Fall 2005)
• Philadelphia Bar Association – Speaker to the Committee for Unrelated Cohabitants (2005)
Community
• Member, Interbranch Commission for Racial, Gender and Ethnic Fairness
• CHOICE Board of Directors, Executive Committee Member
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