Admissions
1979, Pennsylvania
Memberships
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1989—
President, 1997-1998)
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1991—)
Philadelphia Bar Foundation (President, 2002-2003
Trustee, 1999-2002)
Philadelphia (Member, Board of Governors, 2002-2003), American and Pennsylvania Bar Associations
American Law Institute. International Academy of Trial Lawyers
American College of Trial Lawyers.
Bar Fellowship
American College of Trial Lawyers; Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers; Recipient: Distinguished Child Advocate, 2004; Leadership Award, Friends of Farmworkers, 2001; Philadelphia Bar Association Fidelity Award, 1997; Leadership Award, Pennsylvania Legal Services, 2001; Justice Musmanno Award, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, 2002; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers President's Award, 1992; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Milton Rosenberg Award, 1993; Community Legal Services Equal Justice Award, 1994. Chair, Statewide Task Force on Product Liability, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers, 1992-1995. Hearing Officer, Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1993-1998. Co-Author: "Pennsylvania Torts: Law & Advocacy," West Publishing, St. Paul, 1996. Author: "Informed Consent - Door Closed, Doors Opened," Legal Intelligencer, October, 2002; "An Interpretive Analysis of Medical Malpractice Reform," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XXV, March 2002; "Forecasting Value in a Plaintiff's Case," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 63 No. 4 Winter, 2000; "Rights of International Air Crash Victims," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XXI, August, 1998; "Of Trials, Forests & Trees," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 59, No. 3, Fall 1996; "Consumer Protection and Prescription Drugs", Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XVII, No. 18, May, 1994; "The Statute of Limitations & the Discovery Rule", Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, Vol. LXIV, No. 4, October, 1993; "Joint Tortfeasor Releases: Negotiating the Maze", Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, Vol. LXII, No. 4, October 1991; "Techniques in Taking Depositions", The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 55, No. 2, Summer 1992; "Amended Rule 238: Its Scope and Application," The Barrister, Vol. 21, Spring, 1990; "Protection of the Rights of Pregnant Women in Prison & Detention Facilities," New England Journal on Prison Law, Vol. 6 #2, 1980. Chairman, Pennsylvania IOLTA Board, 1996-2003.
