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Yoon to Become Superior Court Chief of Staff Attorney

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February 05, 2013

Philadelphia attorney Philip Yoon will become Superior Court Chief Staff Attorney on March 25, President Judge Correale F. Stevens has announced. Yoon will oversee the central legal staff, which reviews most of the cases and motions filed in Superior Court. The chief staff attorney also assists in the preparation of the Superior Court’s en banc arguments; conducts educational seminars for judicial clerks; and advises the court’s judges of operational, procedural and legal developments. He will succeed Ernest Gennaccaro, Esq., who is retiring after serving more than 30 years with the Superior Court. Yoon has worked with the Superior Court for more than seven years, starting as a law clerk and eventually as chief clerk. He currently is an assistant to the president judge. Yoon is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is active with state and local bar associations, including the Philadelphia Bar and the Allegheny County Bar Associations, and is on the host committee for the ABA Young Lawyers Division National Conference to be held in Pittsburgh in 2014. Formerly from Hazleton, Luzerne County, Yoon is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Myung Yoon, Hazleton.