Haverford College, B.A., 1981
Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1984
Experience
Mr. Zucker concentrates his practice in the area of complex commercial litigation.
He has litigated disputes involving high-level contract, corporate, real estate, banking, insurance, securities, distributorship, trade secret, bankruptcy, UCC and employment issues, as well as business torts, class actions, derivative litigation and “business divorces,” disputes among principals of closely-held entities.
He holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Professional Activities
Mr. Zucker is vice chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Board of Governors, having been elected to the Board in 2011 and serving as a member of its audit and election committees. He is past chair of the bar association’s Business Litigation Committee, having previously served as its vice chair. He is an elected Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and co-chairs the ADR subcommittee of the American Bar Association’s Commercial & Business Litigation Committee. Mr. Zucker has served as an adjunct professor of law at Villanova University School of Law since 2004, and is immediate past president of the law school’s American Inn of Court, having previously served as its Counselor and Program Chair. He chaired the Program Awards Committee of the American Inns of Court Foundation in Washington, DC in 2007 and 2008. In 1998 Mr. Zucker was appointed by the chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association to the Investigative Division of the association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, on which he has served continuously since that time. He is a member of the volunteer panel of judges pro tempore assisting the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. He also is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
In addition, he has been named a “Pennsylvania Super Lawyer” each year since 2006, an honor awarded only to the top 5% of lawyers in Pennsylvania, as published in Philadelphia Magazine.
Mr. Zucker serves as a neutral on the Commercial and Customer Account Panels of the American Arbitration Association and as a mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Bar Admissions
Mr. Zucker is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In addition to his admissions to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and Supreme Court of New Jersey, he is admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Eleventh Circuits, and the District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey.
Education
Mr. Zucker earned his B.A. degree with honors from Haverford College in 1981 and his J.D. degree from Villanova University School of Law in 1984.
Community Activities
Among his many community activities, Mr. Zucker was chair of the Jewish Community Relations Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia (JCRC) from 2007-2010, having previously served as a JCRC vice president and board member. Since 2005 he has served as an elected trustee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and was a member of its board of directors from 2007 through 2010.
Representative Matters
Feldman & Pinto v. Seithel, 2011 WL 6758460 (E.D.Pa. 2011)
Seithel v. Feldman & Pinto, 2011 WL 3924179, reconsid. denied, 2011 WL 4597367 (D.S.C. 2011)
Stoss v. Singer Financial Corp., 2010 WL 678115 (E.D.Pa. 2010)
In re Norvergence, 424 B.R. 663 (Bankr.D.N.J. 2010)
Muhammad v. County Bank of Rehoboth Beach, 189 N.J. 1, 7, 912 A.2d 88 (2006)
Wurtzel v. Park Towne Place Associates Limited Partnership, 2002 WL 31487894 (Phila. C.P. 2002)
Regent National Bank v. Dealers Choice, 1997 WL 786468, 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19219 (E.D.Pa. 1997)
Cohen v. Zarwin & Baum P.C., 1993 WL 460795, 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18055 (E.D.Pa. 1993), reconsid. denied, 1993 WL 532963 (E.D.Pa. 1993)
Ritter v. Diasonics, 993 F.2d 225 (3d Cir. 1993)
Herskowitz v. Nutri/System, 857 F.2d 179 (3d Cir. 1988)