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IN THE COMMONWEALTH COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA Cynthia L. Wellener, Petitioner v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, Respondent BEFORE: : : : : : : : :

No. 1440 C.D. 2008 Submitted: November 7, 2008

HONORABLE DAN PELLEGRINI, Judge HONORABLE ROCHELLE S. FRIEDMAN, Judge HONORABLE JOHNNY J. BUTLER, Judge

OPINION NOT REPORTED MEMORANDUM OPINION BY JUDGE FRIEDMAN FILED: December 19, 2008

Cynthia L. Wellener (Claimant), proceeding pro se,1 petitions for review of the June 9, 2008, order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review (UCBR), which affirmed the decision of a referee to deny Claimant benefits pursuant to section 402(b) of the Unemployment Compensation Law (Law).2 We affirm.

Our supreme court has adopted the Commonwealth Court's position that "any layperson choosing to represent himself in a legal proceeding must, to some reasonable extent, assume the risk that his lack of expertise and legal training will prove his undoing." Vann v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 508 Pa. 139, 148, 494 A.2d 1081, 1086 (1985) (quoting Groch v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, 472 A.2d 286, 288 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1984)). Act of December 5, 1936, Second Ex. Sess. P.L. (1937) 2897, as amended, 43 P.S.

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