John M. Elliott
BLUE BELL
(215) 977-1004
jme@elliottgreenleaf.com
John M. Elliott is the firm's Chairman and senior shareholder. He has over thirty-nine years of trial and appellate experience in complex commercial litigations, including constitutional issues affecting business, healthcare, civil rights, antitrust, corporate, banking and insurance, professional liability, mass tort actions, employment, and class actions. Various publications including the Philadelphia Inquirer , Philadelphia Magazine , The Legal Intelligencer and Counselor Magazine have recognized him as one of Pennsylvania 's leading trial lawyers. A statewide poll of judges and lawyers repeatedly ranked him as one of Pennsylvania 's top 100 lawyers. The January 2005 Legal Intelligencer described him as a "legal titan" and one of the "region's most powerful litigators whose courtroom styles are legendary".
A native of Pennsylvania's anthracite region, Mr. Elliott's public service includes as a Commissioner of the Delaware River Port Authority representing Auditor General Robert P. Casey of Pennsylvania from 1970 to 1975. He was chosen by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to serve as Chairman in 1985-1986, the Vice Chairman in 1984 and a Member from 1980 through 1986 of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, supervising the ethics of Pennsylvania's attorneys. In 1989 and 1991, he was appointed by the Secretary of State of the United States of America to the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe's Conference on the Human Dimension (Paris) and Conference on Democratic Institutions (Oslo). He was awarded an LL.D by St. Vincent College in 1985. In 1995, Cardinal Cahal B. Daly of Ireland dedicated the Salamanca Archives at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland, in Mr. Elliott's honor, and in 2001 Cardinal Desmond Connell of Dublin conferred upon him the Gold Medal of St. Patrick.
Mr. Elliott has also served as a member of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, and as a member of the Environmental Quality Board of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . He was the Chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association Environmental Quality Committee and served as the Chairman of the Urban Committee, Citizens Advisory Council, Department of Environmental Resources, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania . He was a member of: the Philadelphia Coal Rail Task Force, of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science Advisory Committee, and was a Presidential Appointee of the White House Coal Advisory Commission. Mr. Elliott has served on numerous Boards and Committees, including the Pennsylvania Bar Association's House of Delegates; Board of Directors: Pennsylvania Law Institute; Mann Music Center , and the Walnut Street Theatre. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Vincent College, and is a member of the College's Council of Advisors of the School of Humanities and Fine Arts.
Mr. Elliott has served as a faculty member and lecturer for: the American Law Institute, American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He is the author of numerous publications including for the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Congress of the United States , and various professional and academic journals. Mr. Elliott graduated from Saint Vincent College ('63) with highest departmental honors in economics, and was a four-year varsity baseball letterman and captain of the 1963 West Penn Conference championship baseball team. He is a member of St. Vincent 's Athletic Hall of Fame. Mr. Elliott graduated from Georgetown University Law Center ('66) with highest honors in Constitutional Law, Conflicts of Law and Legal Ethics. He is admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court; the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania , the District of Columbia , and the Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Courts of Pennsylvania.
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