WILMINGTON, Del. - Bayard, a well-established and respected Wilmington law firm with a significant commercial and corporate business practice, announced today that attorney Michael J. Scali was named to the Board of Directors of The Committee of 100, a business organization committed to promoting responsible economic development in the State of Delaware. Mr. Scali joins The Committee of 100 Board during Bayard's 50th anniversary year.
"We would like to extend our congratulations to Mike on this honor," said Bayard's Douglas M. Hershman, a director of the firm and Chair of the Executive and Marketing Committees. "Mike embodies the firm-wide passion for the local community and our commitment to developing solutions to issues that affect the economic vitality of Delaware and New Castle County-a community where we live and work."
"Mike is an active and enthusiastic member of our organization and has served on our Scholarship Committee, participating in the selection of our Academic Scholarship winners," said Beverley V. Baxter, Executive Director of The Committee of 100. "We know that he will continue to be a reliable resource in the work of The Committee of 100, promoting responsible economic development, and we are proud to welcome him to the Board."
Mr. Scali concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial and residential real estate, corporate formation and governance, alternative business entities, and commercial transactions. An active member of the legal community, he is a member of the Delaware State Bar Association's Real & Personal Property and Commercial Law Sections, and a member of the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law and Business Law Sections of the American Bar Association.
In addition to his participation with The Committee of 100, Mr. Scali also is active in the Delaware Bankers Association and the Delaware Community Development Corporation, where he is a member of the Corporation's Finance Sub-Committee. He also is a member of both the World Trade Center Delaware, which assists small and medium-sized companies to expand their markets overseas, and The Risk Management Association, which is a professional organization whose objective is to further the ability of financial institutions to identify, assess, and manage the impacts of credit, business, and market risks.
Mr. Scali serves as an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau's binding arbitration program for real estate disputes, and also lectures on title issues and title insurance.
Mr. Scali received his B.A. from Villanova University, and his J.D. , cum laude, from the Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University. While in law school, he was a member of the Woolsack Honor Society, and an Associate Editor of The Dickinson Journal of Environmental Law & Policy.
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