David Unkovic, the former state-appointed receiver for Harrisburg, Pa., has joined law firm McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC.
“The firm culture’s great here,” Unkovic said in an interview Tuesday. He is working out of the firm’s Lancaster, Pa., office.
Unkovic, whom Gov. Tom Corbett nominated in November 2011 to serve as receiver for Pennsylvania’s teetering capital city, resigned four months later. Retired Air Force General William Lynch succeeded Unkovic.
State capital Harrisburg is mired in roughly $340 million of debt that it cannot pay, mostly due to overruns to incinerator retrofit bond financing. The city is about to close a lease deal on the incinerator with the Lancaster Solid Waste Management Authority and is negotiating concessions with major creditors.
Lynch, filing his quarterly update on the city’s finances last week with the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, said Harrisburg could run out of money in the fall “without a resolution of the creditor issues.”
Previously, Unkovic was chief counsel for the Department of Community and Economic Development, which oversees Pennsylvania’s 27 distressed communities. He was a panelist at The Bond Buyer’s symposium on distressed municipalities in March in Providence, R.I.
Harrisburg-based McNees Wallace, which has about 130 lawyers overall, also has offices in Scranton and State College, Pa., Washington and Columbus, Ohio.
