READING, PA, December 1, 2009 – C. Thomas Work, Chair of Stevens & Lee’s Estates & Trusts Department, has been elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Reading Hospital and Medical Center for a term of two years.

A member of the Board since 2004, Mr. Work had previously served as Vice Chairman.

The Reading Hospital and Medical Center is a not-for-profit healthcare center providing comprehensive acute care, post-acute rehabilitation, behavioral and occupational health services to the Greater Berks County community. With more than 6,800 employees, including a medical staff of more than 800 physicians, the Hospital is the largest employer in the county.

In private practice, Mr. Work focuses on estate and tax planning, fiduciary administration, litigation of fiduciary matters, including the defense of surcharge claims brought against trustees, and consulting with corporate and individual trustees on matters of fiduciary administration and regulatory compliance.

He is a life member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Government Commission’s Advisory Committee on Decedents’ Estates Laws and chaired its Pennsylvania Uniform Trust Act Subcommittee, which is credited with the recent complete codification of trust law in Pennsylvania. The work of the subcommittee is recognized nationally with several states having adopted Pennsylvania’s approach as a model for their own trust laws.

Mr. Work is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel and a member of his local, state and national bar associations. He has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2003 through 2009 by being selected by his peers as among the top 5 percent of lawyers in the Commonwealth.

Mr. Work holds a J.D. with distinction from Duke University School of Law and a B.A., summa cum laude, from Dickinson College.


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