Six Alumni Work as Attorneys at Allentown Firm

Six Alumni Work as Attorneys at Allentown Firm

February 26, 2026
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If you’re working with an attorney from Fitzpatrick Lentz & Bubba, a firm headquartered in downtown Allentown, there’s a 14% chance that your attorney went to Muhlenberg.

The practice has 43 attorneys total, and six of them are Mules:

  • Doug Smillie ’78, shareholder and co-chair, litigation and trial practice group
  • Jake Sitman ’94, shareholder and chair, employment law and labor relations group
  • Marie McConnell ’05, shareholder and chair, corporate, business and banking group
  • Gretchen Geisser Petersen ’08, shareholder
  • Sam Morgan ’21, associate
  • Max Allanson-Dundon ’22, associate

Camryn Griffon ’23 will be joining the team as an associate in a few months.

“Muhlenberg’s a pretty intense school. The workload and expectations were really high, and when I eventually did get to law school, I realized I was much more prepared than a lot of the other students.”
Doug Smillie ’78

Smillie, who has been with the firm for 30 years, says the overall rigor of a Muhlenberg education prepared him for his studies at the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.

“Muhlenberg’s a pretty intense school,” says Smillie, who studied political science at Muhlenberg. “The workload and expectations were really high, and when I eventually did get to law school, I realized I was much more prepared than a lot of the other students because I had a very rigorous undergraduate experience that really paid off. I was mentally in shape for the amount of work they were going to throw at me in law school.”

Read more about the attorneys in this story from Muhlenberg Magazine.

Read more about Muhlenberg’s pre-law program here.