The Association provides for two classes of membership: Regular and Privileged. Membership is limited to individuals and cannot be vested in firms or partnerships and applicants must be sponsored by two Regular Members.
While we haven’t been around since 1735, we have been around since 1947 and pride ourselves on being "Philadelphia lawyers."
It was shortly after World War II that Attorney Ralph Croskey led a movement of prominent Philadelphia defense lawyers to form an organization as a social club for those practicing in tort and insurance law.
Minutes of those organizational days and the days that followed are lost in history, but recollections from members of today's defense bar have Mr. Croskey as first president and the guiding force of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (PADC) for some 20 years.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently filed a precedential decision holding an insurer is permitted to file an action for contribution against a licensee that allegedly serves a visibly intoxicated customer who causes injuries to a third-party.
PADC's 2018-2019 luncheon CLE programs commence Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at Estia. We are pleased to offer a timely program entitled "The United States Supreme Court Post-Kennedy" presented by Drexel University Thomas R.
