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Shea Rhodes, Esq. is a graduate of Villanova Law School and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas.  She is currently the Director of Villanova University School of Law’s Institute to address Commercial Sexual Exploitation (“CSE Institute”).  She has significant experience working with survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, and human trafficking.  She sits on the Oversight Committee for the First Judicial District Project Dawn Court and is an active member of Philadelphia’s Anti-Trafficking Coalition and Pennsylvania Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy Work Group (a statewide initiative of Pennsylvania’s community-based anti-trafficking coalitions and state and national partner organizations, dedicated to improving law and public policy regarding trafficking in the commonwealth).  Most recently, Ms. Rhodes drafted model safe harbor legislation which is currently pending in the Pennsylvania Senate, S.B. 851.

Ms. Rhodes served as an ADA for the City of Philadelphia from 2003-2012.  While assigned to the Pretrial Division in the District Attorney’s Office during 2010-2012, she developed and administered the First Judicial District’s Project Dawn Court – a diversion program for women who have been repeatedly charged and convicted of the crime of prostitution, the primary mode of sex trafficking.  Ms. Rhodes is a certified Human Trafficking Trainer for the Municipal Police Officers Education and Training Commission.  Ms. Rhodes has also designed and delivered and trained the Philadelphia Judiciary and given seminars to various police departments and officers, including the Philadelphia School Police and SEPTA.

Richard E. Tasker of Sage Associates, Inc. has had the very good fortune to work as a Construction and Surety Consultant since 1975. He is the President of Sage Associates, initially incorporated under different name in 1984. Rick has practiced through the United States and Puerto Rico though his practice has been concentrated in the Far West, Rocky Mountain and Southwestern states for many years. Over the years assisting Sureties has represented more than fifty percent of the firm’s volume and he is honored to have worked with most of the countries Sureties. The firm presently has offices in northern and southern California and Arizona and we believe one of the most experienced professional staffs in the industry, the average Sage Associates has more than twenty years of management level experience in the construction industry. The firm also has significant involvement in construction claims and litigation, representing a wide range of contractors and subcontractors, as well as private and public owners. Mr. Tasker has assisted the Regents of California on construction disputes on many projects at almost all of their campuses.

Rick is a graduate of Syracuse University, the State University of New York and has an MBA from Florida Atlantic University. He co-founded the Dana Point Surety Claims Conference in 1993 and the Western States Surety Conference in 1994. He has been an associate member of ABA TIPS for more than 30 years. Rick is also the majority Owner of Sage Contractor Services, an “A” licensed General Contractor in several western States. SCS has performed in excess of thirty million dollars in completion work for half a dozen Surety companies.

Presentation Given By

• Patrick R. Kingsley, Esquire
• Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP.
• 215.564.8029
• pkingsley@stradley.com

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