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  Mecum, Samuel M.
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  2007-01-01  
 
NameSamuel M. Mecum
Address Manheim Township
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601, United States
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Websitehttp://www.sammecum.com/
Born October 00, 1948 (75 years)
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InfoBorn in Scranton Pennsylvania but a resident of Lancaster County since infancy, Sam is a graduate of Manheim Township High School in 1966, where he was a member of the County championship tennis team for two years, a member of the National Honor Society, and the Candlelight Singers (a cappella group).

He has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

He is active on the Boards of several community organizations including the James Buchanan Foundation (President, Board of Trustees, 2004-2006), Grave Concern, Inc (Vice President), and the Open Arms Christian Child Care Center. He received the Access to Justice Award in 2002 from the Lancaster Bar Association, and was elected President of the LBA in 2006. Sam is an elder in his church, a former Sunday School teacher, and a tenor in the church choir.

Sam's interests include traveling, hiking, friendly poker games, bocce (he is Secretary of the Lancaster Bocce League), fishing, trivia tournaments, history, blues and rock and roll music, fantasy baseball, real baseball, and getting together with family, which includes Wife Debbie, and grown sons Alex and Travis.


*Penn State University, BA 1970 (History--with Distinction)
*Villanova University School of Law, Juris Doctor, 1973
*Member, PA Trial Lawyers' Association, Member, PA Bar Association, Member, Family Law and Workers' Compensation Sections, Lancaster Bar Association, President, Lancaster Bar Association, 2006
*In private practice in Lancaster County since 1974


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