Admitted
1938, Pennsylvania; 1945, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1946, U.S. Supreme Court; 1961, District of Columbia; 1974, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1978, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1984, New York; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ni
Law School
University of Pennsylvania, LL.B., 1936
Law School Graduation Year
1936
College
University of Pennsylvania, B.A., with highest honors, 1932
Memberships
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York; Philadelphia (Chancellor, 1963), Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and American (Chairman, Tort and Insurance Practice Section Class Action Committee, 1983-1985) Bar Associations
Biographical
Order of the Coif. Member, Board of Editors, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1935-1936. Author: Litigation of a Class Action, TIPS Forum, 1982. Assistant to Professor Francis H. Bohlen in the drafting of Restatement of Torts I, 1936-1938. Special Assistant to Dean Earl G. Harrison, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1946-1947. Associate Trustee, University of Pennsylvania. Member, Board of Overseers, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Established David Berger Chair of Law for the Improvement of the Administration of Justice. Law Clerk: Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1938-1939 and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1945-1946. Participant: ABA Panels on Class Actions, 1969— and TIPS, 1984-1985; Class Actions in Mass Tort Cases, 1969—; ALI-ABA panels on Anti-Trust, 1975-1976; PLI panels on Complex Litigation, 1976-1978; Federal Bar Association Panels and various panels for Federal Rules of Evidence, 1974-1977. Life Member: American Law Institute; Judicial Conference, Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Appointed by U.S. Supreme Court: Committee to draft Federal Rules of Evidence, 1965-1975. City Solicitor of Philadelphia, 1956-1963. Chairman, Pennsylvania Superior Court Advisory Committee, 1979-1981. Member, National Defense Executive Reserve, 1963—. Founder, 1977—and Chairman, 1977—, of Berger & Montague, P.C. Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers; International Society of Barristers; International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Member, Board of Directors, 1984—; Dean, 1975-1976).