Steinbacher receives the PBA Special Achievement Award

HARRISBURG (May 12, 2015) - The Pennsylvania Bar Association has presented awards that recognize outstanding leadership in the legal profession and extraordinary service and longstanding membership in the association.

PBA Special Achievement Awards recognize those lawyers and individuals who have provided time and resources to improve the association and the legal profession. The President's Awards, bestowed at the discretion of 2014-15 PBA President Francis X. O'Connor, recognize extraordinary commitment to the association. PBA Fifty-Year Member Awards recognize lawyers who have been association members for five decades.

Julianne E. Steinbacher, Steinbacher & Stahl, Williamsport received the PBA Special Achievement Award - for service as chair of the PBA Quality of Life/Balance Committee that created continuing legal education programs focusing on quality of life issues affecting lawyers in the areas of professionalism and technology

The awards were presented on May 8 during the association's Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Philadelphia Downtown Hotel, Philadelphia.