Marie K. McConnell - Allentown, PA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2009
    LL.M., Taxation
  • Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2008
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Muhlenberg College, 2005
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

• Chair - Corporate, Business & Banking

Classes and Seminars

• Webinar Speaker, Maintaining Hospital Nonprofit Status, HealthCare Appraisers, November 17, 2020
  
• Panelist, Navigating the New Normal – Professional Services Webinar, Penn State Lehigh Valley LaunchBox Ladies Speakers Series, May 27, 2020
  
• Speaker, Project Blueprint, Increasing Ethnic Diversity in Volunteer Leadership, Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley, annually 2015 – present
  
• Speaker, LEAD Now, Understanding Board Service, Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley, annually 2018 – present
  
• Speaker, Legal Structures for Your Business, Including Benefits of a B-Corp, Evolve Her September 13, 2018
  
• Speaker, Corporate Boot Camp, Client Seminar, September 23, 2014
  
• Speaker, Real Estate for the Health Care Industry: Tax Assessments & Tax Exemptions, Client Seminar, April 23, 2014
  
• Speaker, Ryan Leadership Institute, De Sales University, March 18, 2014

Pro Bono Activities

• Phoebe Ministries, Audit, Finance and Investment Committee, Member, 2014 – 2019
• Allentown School District Foundation, Board of Directors, Member, 2011 – 2017; Governance Committee, 2011 – 2018
• Volunteer Leadership Council- Lehigh Valley Unit, American Cancer Society East Central Division, Former Member

Representative Clients

• Representation with respect to every aspect of commercial real estate transactions, including acquisition, development, financing, construction and utilization

• Legal counsel to local and nationally recognized nonprofit organizations, including hospitals and universities. Representation includes restructuring, mergers, affiliations and supporting organizations

• Solicitor to multiple Charter Schools. Representation includes obtaining and renewing charters, governance, financing, facilities, and contract matters

• Defense of charitable status with respect to tax challenges and handling of tax exemption hearings and trials on behalf of nonprofit organizations

• Representation of taxpayers in various tax matters, including income tax, domicile issues and gross receipts tax matters. Regularly appears before the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue Board of Appeals, Board of Finance and Revenue and Commonwealth Court

Representative Cases

• Phoebe Services, Inc. v. City of Allentown
  • Citation: 262 A.3d 660 (Pa. Commw. 2021)

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 2008
• New Jersey, 2008
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2009

Other Affiliations

• Bar Association of Lehigh County
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• CREW Lehigh Valley, Past-President, 2022; President, 2021; President-Elect, 2020; Delegate, 2019; Secretary, 2015 – 2018; Member, 2010 – present
• CREW Network, Nomination Committee, Member, 2019