John Summers

Practice Areas

John Summers is an accomplished complex commercial litigator with more than 35 years of experience representing clients in the financial services, technology, life science, real estate, and manufacturing sectors.

Chair of the firm’s litigation department, John is nationally recognized in handling difficult cases involving complicated financial disputes as well as legal ethics issues. John litigates a wide range of matters, including ERISA, class actions, complex contract, and partnership and non-compete disputes, and is valued by clients for his sophisticated and hands-on style.

John also directed the firm’s Supreme Court Project, a research project that employs econometric techniques to analyze and predict United States Supreme Court decisions.

Career

Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, Shareholder, 1994 to present. Hangley Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman & Ewing, 1986-94. Law clerk, Honorable Thomas N O'Neill, Jr, US District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1984-86.

Professional Memberships

John is a leader in the legal community. He has served since 2009 as East Coast Solicitor to the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges, where he counsels judges of the Court of Common Pleas on ethics matters raised by the Pennsylvania Judicial Conduct board. He is also presently Treasurer of the University of Pennsylvania Inn of Court and Member of the American Law Institute. John has also been long active in legal ethics issues, having served as a member and then chair of a Hearing Board of Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, a former Chair of the Professional Responsibility Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, and a former member of the Association’s Professional Guidance Committee. He was also for many years an adjunct lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. John also serves as Legal Counsel to Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller.

Personal

John is deeply involved with our community. He currently serves as Board President of Children First, a children’s advocacy organization, and is Vice President of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project. He also guided Reinvestment Fund (RF), a nationally recognized community development finance institution, as Board Chair for six years and member of the Board for twenty years.