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The Pennsylvania Bar Foundation is the 501(c)(3) charitable affiliate of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. It was incorporated in 1984 with the purpose of assisting the association to be involved with public service. The foundation is managed by 23 voting members of its board of directors.
The Barristers' Association of Philadelphia, Incorporated is a minority bar association located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which represents African-American attorneys. The association was established in 1950. The Barristers' Association of Philadelphia is an affiliate of the National Bar Association.
A mandatory or integrated bar association is one to which a state delegates the authority to regulate the admission of attorneys to practice in that state; typically these require membership in that bar association to practice in that state. Mandatory bars derive their power from legislative statute and/or from the power of the state court ...
Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction. Each U.S. state and jurisdiction (e.g. territories under federal control) has its own court system and sets its own rules and standards for bar admission.
Maxwell H. Cohen: [57] First Jewish male lawyer admitted to the Monroe County Bar Association in Pennsylvania. He was also the first lawyer to hire an African American law clerk and a female law clerk. Horace A. Davenport: [58] First African American male judge in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1975) Daniel J. Clifford: [59] [60] First openly ...
Elizabeth Hirz: [74] First female to serve as the District Attorney for Erie County, Pennsylvania (2022) Ione Romeika (1948): [83] [84] First female lawyer in Fayette County, Pennsylvania; Nancy Vernon (1980): [85] First female judge and district attorney in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. She was also the first woman to practice criminal law in ...
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A practicing attorney with more than 25 years of experience representing clients in civil litigation and mediation matters in the state courts of Philadelphia, the five counties surrounding Philadelphia, and the Eastern and Middle District Courts of Pennsylvania, Miller's expertise in civil litigation and mediation was recognized with a partnership by the Philadelphia law firm of McKissock ...