Lance J. Nelson, Managing Partner of MacElree Harvey, will lead a session on "Divorce And Pre-Nuptial Agreements For Privately-Held Business Owners"

Lance J. Nelson, Managing Partner of MacElree Harvey, will lead a session at the fall professional development conference of the Institute of Management Accountants.

Nelson will lead a session on "Divorce And Pre-Nuptial Agreements For Privately-Held Business Owners."

The seminar will take place on Friday, October 27, 2006, at the Radisson Valley Forge Hotel in King of Prussia, beginning at 7:15 a.m. Nelson will give his presentation at 2:05 p.m.

Those attending the seminar will qualify for eight hours of CPE educational credits. For registration information, contact Amy Snyder of the IMA Mid-Atlantic Council in Malvern. Other topics being addressed at the seminar include "The Tax Gap", "The New e-Filing Initiative", "Succession Planning Panel Discussion" and "The New Bankruptcy Laws."

Nelson, a graduate of Boston College and Villanova School of Law, practices commercial litigation and family law at MacElree Harvey. He was admitted to the Delaware and Pennsylvania bars in 1991.

He has been a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board's Hearing Committee since 2001. He has also served on several committees for the Chester County Bar Association, including The Law Explorer's Committee (Chair, 1993-present), Young Lawyers' Division (Chair, 1998), the Nominating Committee (1996, 1997), the Mentoring Committee (1999-2001), the Judicial Evaluation Committee (Chair, 2002), and the Board of Directors (January 2003-present). Other organizations Nelson gives his time to include the Pennsylvania State Bar Association, where he served on the Task Force on Balance and Quality of Life from 1999 to 2001, as well as the Delaware State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the American Inns of Court (John E. Stively Inn), and the Legal Marketing Association.

Nelson has also served on the Presidential Scholarship Steering Committee for West Chester University (2000-present, Chairman 2001-2002), on the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of Chester County (1998-2000), and on the West Chester Business Improvement District (2001-present, Chairman, 2004).

MacElree Harvey has more than 25 attorneys on staff and offices in West Chester, Kennett Square and Wilmington. Providing initiative in practice for more than a century, MacElree Harvey serves clients in more than two dozen areas of law.