PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 4, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The law firm of Donovan Searles, LLC, is pleased and excited to announce that attorney Noah Axler will be joining the firm on February 21, 2011. The firm thereafter will adopt a new name, Donovan Searles & Axler, LLC.
Mr. Axler is the principal of the Law Office of Noah Axler LLC, a firm specializing in commercial and class action litigation. He is a 1999 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and, in 2007 and 2010, Super Lawyers and Philadelphia Magazine named him a "Rising Star". He has also authored a number of articles on litigation topics, including several published in The Explosion & Evolution of Class Action Law (PBI 2004). Mr. Axler is a member of the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ohio bars and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Donovan Searles, LLC, located at 1845 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, is a law firm dedicated to providing first class litigation services to investors, consumers and small businesses. The firm's principals have substantial trial and appellate court experience prosecuting complex commercial and consumer cases. The members of the firm have appeared or argued before the Supreme Court of the United States, various federal and state appellate courts, the state Supreme Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and federal and state trial courts throughout the country. The firm's nationwide practice focuses on class actions, shareholders' rights, consumer and commercial litigation as well as employment-related disputes. The firm strives to provide consumers, investors and small businesses with the type of sophisticated, in-depth representation that is ordinarily available only to the largest corporate clients of money-center law firms.
The members of Donovan Searles, LLC have been named repeatedly as Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Super Lawyers. The firm maintains a website at http://www.donovansearles.com
The firm's managing principal, Michael Donovan, said, "We very much look forward to Noah's joining our practice. His extensive experience and entrepreneurial spirit will bring added energy to our case work and enable us to continue providing the first-class litigation, trial and appellate services we already provide to our clients."