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    Office of General Counsel

    Agency Chief Counsel

     Shawn W. Weis
    Chief Counsel

    Education
    • Dickinson School of Law, JD
    • Elizabethtown College, BS
    Current Practice
    • Chief Counsel, PENNVEST
    • Public Finance
    • Transactional Law (including revenue-based, asset-based and real estate structured financings)
    • Portfolio Management
    • Issuer's Counsel/Trust Indenture and Liquidity Facilities Management
    • Collections Efforts (including workouts, foreclosures and bankruptcies)
    • Board Governance
    • Regulations/Legislation
    • Compliance
    • Audits
    • Procurement
    Prior Experience
    • KnowledgePlanet, Inc., In-House Legal Counsel
    • Keefer Wood Allen & Rahal, LLP, Associate
    • Penn State - Dickinson School of Law, Clinical Staff Professor
    Admissions
    • Pennsylvania Supreme Court
    • US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
    Awards and
    Affiliations
    • National Association of Bond Lawyers
    • Pennsylvania Association of Bond Lawyers
    • Pennsylvania Chapter of Women in Public Finance