FACILITATOR

Rebecca (Becky) Trenner represents the firm’s clients in federal and state employment and unemployment tax controversies, with a particular focus on defending the classification of transportation professionals, including transportation equipment owner-operators and freight agents, as independent contractors. Trenner defends transportation industry clients in disputes involving independent contractor reclassification for unemployment benefits, unemployment and employment tax purposes, workers’ compensation, and successor liability and SUTA rate manipulation investigations and appeals.

Internally, Trenner serves as the firm’s Associate Development Partner, facilitating, supporting, and guiding associate attorneys’ training and professional development.

Alyssa Adams is a member of the Saxton & Stump Trucking and Commercial Transportation group, helping tractor-trailer drivers navigate the legal system when they are involved in an accident. She’s worked in defense of the transportation industry for more than 10 years at the former Carlisle, Pa.-based Marcello & Kivisto LLC law firm, a boutique firm that focused entirely on the legal needs of the transportation industry. At Saxton & Stump, she’ll continue her work from Marcello & Kivisto, including litigation and settlements of tractor-trailer accidents, traffic citations in court and drafting contracts for trucking companies.

Prior to joining Marcello & Kivisto, she worked as a legal intern in two offices of the Pennsylvania Office of General Counsel in Harrisburg. Her first assignment was in the Public School Employees’ Retirement System where she worked on analysis of interpreting the Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement Code to help decide appeals, interpreted additional codes such as securities laws, tax laws, the Right to Know Law, guardianships and others. During her final year of law school, she interned for the office’s Insurance Department, working with the state’s Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error (MCARE) Act of 2002. In that position, she reviewed medical malpractice claims, and evaluated those cases along with complaints, answers, deposition summaries, expert reports and other legal documents.

She is a graduate of Widener University School of Law, where she placed fourth of 87 classmates. She earned her undergraduate degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated summa cum laude.

Shannon Cohen primarily practices in emerging technologies, independent contractor issues, and legislative services. Cohen focuses on forthcoming and active legislation and regulation affecting motor carriers, particularly legislation addressing the independent contractor status of owner-operators. She has extensive experience counseling clients on owner-operator programs and issues related to the design of successful owner-operator models, including drafting and revising legislation, assessing and communicating its impact on the trucking industry, and drafting and reviewing independent contractor and other transportation agreements.

Cohen also serves in several internal leadership roles within the Firm, including as General Counsel of Scopelitis Law Firm, Co-Chair of the DEI Committee, and a member of the technology, hiring, ethics, and Firm Management committees. She also co-leads the Summer Law Clerk Program.

Cohen has been a featured speaker on emerging technologies, independent contractor issues, and legislative developments for industry stakeholders and associations.

Cohen earned her B.S. from Indiana University and her J.D., cum laude, from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she served on the board of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies.