David F. Binder

After receiving his B.A. from Geneva College in 1956 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1959, Mr. Binder spent two years clerking for Chief Justice Charles Alvin Jones of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  During his career he has lectured on various topics in the areas of civil litigation and evidence for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).  Mr. Binder serves as a judge pro tem for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1991 to 1997.  He has been a course planner and lecturer for the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Mr. Binder is currently a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, and thePennsylvania Supreme Court.  He is also a faculty member of the Pennsylvania College of the Judiciary, the Philadelphia and American Bar Associations, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the American College of Trial Lawyers.

He served for five years on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee.  He was also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Evidence appointed by the Supreme Court to draft the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence. He later served seven years on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s standing Committee on Evidence. Mr. Binder is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America. He has served on the editorial advisory board for the monthly publication, Verdicts, Settlements and Tactics published by Shephard’s/McGraw-Hill, Inc.

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