{"id":120857,"date":"2023-07-25T19:36:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120857"},"modified":"2023-07-25T19:36:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:36:35","slug":"elizabeth-chiappetta-elected-president-of-the-pennsylvania-association-for-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120857","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Chiappetta Elected President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG (July 25, 2023) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ) met at Omni Bedford Springs last week for their annual retreat and their Board of Governors selected Elizabeth (Liz) Chiappetta, Esq. to lead the organization for the next year.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Chiappetta is a partner at Robert Peirce &amp; Associates P.C. in Pittsburgh, PA. She attended Boston College and Duquesne University School of Law.\u00a0 She is an experienced trial lawyer that specializes in nursing home abuse cases and personal injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Association for Justice is a bipartisan organization that advocates for a fair and effective civil justice system that works for all Pennsylvanians.\u00a0 Their volunteer leaders and dedicated staff provide support to plaintiff attorneys across the Commonwealth as they represent clients seeking justice from injuries or death caused by the negligence of corporations, insurers, hospitals, and other powerful special interests.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Becoming President of PAJ and continuing our association\u2019s mission \u2013 which has been going strong for over fifty years \u2013 is the highest of professional honors,\u201d said Chiappetta. \u201cOur strength is due to the participation and dedication of our members, so I will be laser-focused on all issues that help plaintiff attorneys better represent their clients by advocating for a strong civil justice system throughout the Commonwealth and before our three branches of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Liz is a natural leader that values the collective thoughts of our membership and staff,\u201d added\u00a0Lisa Benzie, Executive Director of PAJ.\u00a0 &#8220;Her commitment to our work over the last few years as an officer has been invaluable and I\u2019m looking forward to working closely with her as our President over the next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nEric Mock<br \/>\nPennsylvania Association for Justice<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG (July 25, 2023) \u2014 The Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ) met at Omni Bedford Springs last week for their annual retreat and their Board of Governors selected Elizabeth (Liz) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=120857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elizabeth Chiappetta Elected President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120858,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/PA-Justice.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}