Background
Covner, Ellen B. was born on April 2, 1947 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Bernard and Thelma (Crockin) Covner.
Covner, Ellen B. was born on April 2, 1947 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Daughter of Bernard and Thelma (Crockin) Covner.
Goucher College (Bachelor of Arts, 1969). Boston College Law School (Juris Doctor, 1975). Kennedy Institute of Bioethics, Georgetown University (by invitation), 1985.
Spoken languages: French.
Worked at Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman, LLP (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) specializing in General Practice in all Courts, Litigation, Corporate and Business, Real Estate, Banking and Finance, Securities, Public Finance, Public Utilities, Tax, Bankruptcy, Environmental, Labor, Health, Torts and Estates. Admitted to the bar, 1975, Massachusetts. 1976, United States. District Court, District of Massachusetts and United States.
Court of Appeals, First District. 1988, Pennsylvania; 1989, United States. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
Author: "How Reform Impacts Academic Health Centers," The Legal Intelligencer-Pennsylvania. Law Weekly Health Care Reform Supplement, August 15, 1994, p. S18-S19; "The Lakeberg Twins," ASLME Briefings, No.
9, Winter, 1994, p. 1. "The Effect of the Treatment Setting on the Decision-Making Process: Acute Care Hospitals and Emergency Services," in special Spring-Summer issue entitled "Medical Decision-Making and the Right to Die after Cruzan," 19 Law, Medicine, and Health Care 66 (1991). "Legal Aspects of Infection Control," in Infection Control: Dilemmas and Practical Solutions, Plenum Press, New York, 1990 at p.
189; "Questions About Care Consults," Delaware Valley Ethics Committee Network Newsletter, December 1987. Co-Author: "The Role of Hospital Ethics Committees in Decisions to Terminate Treatment," Boston Bar Journal (March-April 1985) at p. 22; "Medical Needs," Planning For Your Clients and You, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education - New England Law Institute, Inc., 1979.
Faculty, Adjunct Associate Professor, Legal Studies in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 1986-1996. General Counsel, The Children's Hospital, Boston, 1979-1986. Associate Executive Director of Legal Affairs, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1986-1990.
Associate Vice President of Legal Affairs, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, 1990-1992. Council Member, Greenwall Coordinating Council, "Care of the Dying: Staying Out of the Courts," National Center for State Courts, 1994. Vice Chairperson, Committee on Medicine and Law, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association, 1989-1992.
Chairperson, Institutional Review Board, Harvard Community Health Plan, 1978-1986. Co-Chair, Dilworth Paxon Kalish & Kauffman, Health Law Practice Group, 1993. Member, Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys, 1995.
Member: Philadelphia Bar Association. Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys. National Health Lawyers Association.
American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman was founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1933 and presently has 82 lawyers, of whom 39 are partners. It conducts a regional and national practice principally in areas of corporate and business law, federal and state litigation, banking and finance, securities law, bankruptcy, estate planning, tax law, public finance, labor law, health care law and government regulation.
The firm services a diverse clientele ranging from entrepreneurial and closely-held businesses to publicly-held and Fortune 500 companies. Dilworth, Paxson, Kalish & Kauffman also acts as special counsel to various governmental authorities and entities. The firm has a strong tradition of public service and, as a result, many former and present members of the firm hold a wide variety of positions at the federal, state and local levels of Government and on the boards of charitable and civic institutions.
Member, Board of Directors, Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys, 1995. Member: Philadelphia Bar Association. Pennsylvania Society of Healthcare Attorneys.
National Health Lawyers Association. American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
Children: Jamie Beth, Seth Lawrence.