Sharon is active in the Philadelphia and American Bar Associations. She is a member of the Editorial Board of The Health Lawyer, the primary publication of the Health Law Section of the American Bar Association, and she is a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Litigation Section and the Technology and Employment Rights and Responsibilities (Management) Committees of the Labor and Employment Section. Sharon has been a course planner, author and lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on a number of trial-related and information technology subjects, as well as for organizations such as HealthTech, where she last addressed e-commerce jurisdictional issues. Sharon has also served as a Settlement Master and Judge Pro Tempore for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Community service includes Sharon's service as a long-standing member and past officer of the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and her pro bono representation of cultural non-profits and individual artists; she currently serves on the Board of Mum Puppettheatre and is also a past Chair of the Board of Directors of InterAct Theatre Company and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Independence Hall Association. Sharon also served as a member of the Planning Committee of the Philadelphia Sense of Place Project, which developed from a conference convened by the William Penn Foundation in mid-November 1999 entitled "A Sense of Place: Creating a Collective Vision for the Cultural Heritage Resources of the Philadelphia Region."

Sharon is admitted to the Bar of Pennsylvania and the Bars of the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. She has also appeared pro hac vice in the courts of several states throughout the country.

In 2005, Sharon received the Outstanding Volunteer Services Award from the Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and was also elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of attorneys, judges and law professors "whose professional, public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession." Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

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Hugh is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Maryland and the District of Columbia. He became Of Counsel to the Ardmore, PA, firm of Biddle & Colletti, P.C., in 1997, concentrating on commercial transactions emphasizing information technology issues, and conducting a general commercial, corporate and estate planning practice. Hugh has worked closely with Sharon Erwin on a number of litigation matters since 1999, primarily in the area of employment discrimination litigation. Hugh graduated from Harvard College (A.B. cum laude), Simmons College (M.L.S.) and Duke University (J.D.).

From 1991 through 1995, Hugh was a Senior Attorney in the Resolution Trust Corporation's Legal Division at the Valley Forge Office, overseeing the legal affairs of savings and loan associations held in conservatorship and receivership by the RTC in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts. From 1985 to 1990, he practiced as associate and partner at the firm of Susman, Duffy & Segaloff, P.C., in New Haven, Connecticut, initially concentrating on litigation arising out of commercial lending, real estate development and contract disputes, later shifting to a more transactional practice emphasizing real estate development focusing on land use planning issues, commercial lending, and small business corporate development and restructuring. From 1978 to 1985, Hugh was at the firm of Hewes, Morella, Gelband & Lamberton, P.C., as associate and partner, where, in addition to representing The American University extensively in employment litigation (especially in the employment discrimination area), he assisted the University General Counsel in general corporate counseling and carried on a general civil practice for a variety of individual and institutional clients.