Admitted
1978, Pa. and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pa.; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court; 1983, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pa.
Law School
University of Virginia, J.D., 1978
Law School Graduation Year
1978
College
University of Virginia, B.A., with honors/distinction, 1975
Memberships
The American Law Institute (Members Consultative Groups on various Restatements); Products Liability Advisory Council (Executive Committee, 1998-2002); Defense Research Institute (Co-Chairman of DRI's European Corporate Outreach Committee; Vice-Chairman, International Law Committee; Drug & Medical Device Committee; Products Liability Committee); International Association of Defense Counsel (Chairman, Business Litigation Committee; Multinational Litigation Committee; Drug & Medical Device Committee; Products Liability Committee; Membership Committee); Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel; American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations; Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel.
Biographical
Listed in: Who's Who in American Law; Who's Who in the World; Who's Who in America. Trustee, Executive & Finance Committees, The Episcopal Academy, Merion, Pa. Chairman of the Firm's Products Liability Section. Author: Effect of Compliance or Noncompliance With Applicable Governmental Product Safety Regulations on a Determination of Product Defect, 36 So. Tex L. Rev. 453 (1995); The Economic Loss Doctrine: Saving Contract Warranty Law from Drowning in a Sea of Torts, 26 U. Toledo L. Rev. 591 (1995); Issues Management in the Global Economy: Creating and Managing Documents, 65 For The Defense 494 (IADC 1998); Caught in the Web - Liabilities and Litigation From Commercial Use of the Internet (IADC, 1998); An Overview of Damages and The Compensation Scheme in Products Liability Actions in the United States, DRI Second International Product Liability Conference The Globalization of Products Liability, June 2001; Hot Topics in Products Liability - the New Restatement in Pennsylvania, PBI Seminars, December, 2001; Multinational Jurisdictional and Procedural Issues Created by the World Wide Web: Litigation in a World Without Boundaries, 2002 DRI Techno-Torts Conference, April 2002, and a number of State-by-State Surveys of the law published by the American Bar Association on various topics. Arbitrator, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County and for the American Arbitration Association.