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.
PADC recently filed comments with Pennsylvania's Civil Procedural Rules Committee oppisong the proposed revocation of Rule of Civil Procedure 1006(a.1) and related medical malpractice venue rules. This opposition is based on the fact that there is no data to support the conclusion that the Rule is no longer needed
PADC member John Morgenstern extends a special invitation and PADC discount for a 4-hour CLE symposium on Friday afternoon, May 17th at the DuPont Country Club in Wilmington on What Civil Trial Attorneys Can Learn from the World’s Best Interrogators featuring Brigadier
