City of Philadelphia - File #: 150243

• File #: 150243
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: ADOPTED
• File created: 3/26/2015
• In control: CITY COUNCIL
• Final action: 3/26/2015
• Title: Recognizing and acknowledging George D. Gould, Esq., winner of the 2014 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award, for his achievements over more than four decades of work in the field of public interest law.
• Sponsors: Councilmember Tasco, Councilmember Quiñones Sánchez, Councilmember Greenlee, Councilmember Bass, Councilmember Jones, Councilmember Goode, Council President Clarke, Councilmember Oh, Councilmember O'Brien, Councilmember Johnson, Councilmember Blackwell, Councilmember Squilla, Councilmember Neilson, Councilmember Henon, Councilmember Reynolds Brown

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/26/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	Introduced and Ordered Placed on This Week's Final Passage Calendar	Pass
3/26/2015	0	CITY COUNCIL	ADOPTED

Title
Recognizing and acknowledging George D. Gould, Esq., winner of the 2014 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award, for his achievements over more than four decades of work in the field of public interest law.

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WHEREAS, George D. Gould is the Managing Attorney of the Housing & Energy Units at Community Legal Services, which he joined in 1970 as a Reginald Heber Smith Fellow. The Housing Unit provides representation in housing cases, including landlord/tenant and public housing, while the Energy Unit provides representation as the Public Advocate before the Philadelphia Gas Commission and provides assistance in energy cases. He has been involved in numerous state and federal class action litigation and legislative efforts involving mortgage foreclosure prevention, public housing, landlord/tenant law and childhood lead poisoning; and

WHEREAS, Mr. Gould currently serves as member of the Landlord Tenant Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission, the Pennsylvania Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Workgroup, the Lead Primary Prevention Task Force and is a former member of the National Lead Task Group of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and the National Lead Based Paint Hazard Reduction and Financing Task Force created by Title X of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1992. He also serves on the board of Regional Housing Legal Services and is a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, where he teaches courses and develops written material on landlord/tenant law. He is also a frequent lecturer on housing law topics at national and statewide events for legal services programs; and

WHEREAS, In addition to the 2014 Bar Foundation Award, Mr. Gould received the National Housing Law Project's David Bryson Award in 2011, was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2009, and received the 2001 Striving Toward Excellence Award from Pennsylvania Legal Services. He has also received numerous awar...