Jun 29, 2018 3 min read

At its June 26 meeting, the Bethel Park School Board hired Joseph P. Villani as associate principal at Bethel Park High School.

Villani comes to Bethel Park from the Seneca Valley School District, where he has served as Seneca Valley High School assistant principal since November 2016. He began working in Seneca Valley in July 2016 as a data and assessment assistant principal for the district’s secondary schools. His starting salary is $96,500 and he will begin working in Bethel Park no later than Aug. 27.

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The Residence at Logan, a senior living community in Bethel Park, has named Doreen E. Bufalini as its new executive director. A certified Personal Care Home Administrator, Bufalini holds a B.A. in Health Care Studies from Chatham University and an A.S. in Occupational Therapy from Community College of Allegheny County. She brings over 11 years of professional experience in the senior living industry with her to the community. Most recently, Bufalini served as director of Independent Living Operations and Sales & Marketing at Willows Heights Independent Living in McKees Rocks.

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Attorney Bryan S. Neft has been named the 110th president of the Allegheny County Bar Association. His one-year term began July 1 and will end on June 30, 2019.

Neft attributes his desire to practice law and dedication to the profession to his mother, Rhoda Neft, who entered law school when Bryan and his brother were teenagers. “That wasn’t the typical career path women took in those days, and that made quite an impression on me,” Neft said. “Not only did it show me what a person can do when fueled by determination and character, it also showed me the importance of her chosen profession.”

Neft is an attorney in the downtown Pittsburgh office of Spilman Thomas & Battle; his practice focuses on commercial litigation, health care and toxic tort. Neft was elected president-elect of the 6,000-member ACBA in 2017 and served in that capacity for the past year. He replaces Hal D. Coffey, who completes his term on June 30.

Neft said that among his primary goals for his term as president is promoting diversity within the legal profession overall and, in particular, expanding the ACBA’s minority law student Summer Clerkship program.

Neft also hopes to facilitate ways Pittsburgh-area attorneys can engage in pro bono work and to continue to make the ACBA a greater resource for attorneys throughout Allegheny County, not only those working at downtown firms, by bringing bar association programming into the suburbs.

Neft earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania and his juris doctorate in 1989 from the Boston University School of Law.

His is a former ACBA treasurer and chair of the ACBA Bench-Bar Conference Committee. He is a current or former member of the ACBA Corporate, Banking and Business Law Section; Civil Litigation Section; Federal Court Section; Homer S. Brown Division; LGBT Rights Committee; and the Task Force on Gender Equality, among numerous other roles.

Neft previously served on the Board of Trustees for Beth El Congregation of South Hills. He lives in Mt. Lebanon with his wife, Julie Cohen, and their three children: Simon, 21, Justin, 19, and Zoe, 15.