William T Hangley

Practice Areas

William T. Hangley, a founder and Chair Emeritus of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, is a highly decorated trial lawyer and counselor. His practice involves representations of both plaintiffs and defendants. He has tried First Amendment, antitrust, patent, estates, real estate, franchise, construction, employment, unfair competition, securities, civil rights, attorney malpractice, capital punishment, and general contract and business tort cases.

During the 1990s, Bill presided over jury trials as a Judge Pro Tem of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, helping the Court address its then-critical case backlog. He currently serves as a Special Discovery Master for district judges in two ongoing complex civil litigations.

Career

Founder, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, 1994-present; Founder, Hangley Connolly Epstein Chicco Foxman & Ewing, 1969-94; Associate, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, 1966-69.

Professional Memberships

A longtime Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Bill has served as the College’s Regent for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. He recently completed a six-year tour as a member of the United States Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules (by appointment of Chief Justice John Roberts), and is currently the Liaison of the ABA Section of Litigation to the Advisory Committee on Civil Rules. He has been a member and then Chair of the Pennsylvania IOLTA Board, and served as Chair of the Third Circuit Lawyers Advisory Committee. He has been Co-Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation’s Federal Practice Task Force and a member of the Task Force on Discovery and Civil Justice, a joint project of the American College and the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, which works to address the increasing inefficiency and expense of the civil justice system and the disappearance of the civil jury trial.