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James B. Dilsheimer, Esq.
Mr. Dilsheimer is a partner and trial attorney at Stampone O’Brien Dilsheimer Law in Cheltenham. Before that, he practiced most recently with Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky. Mr. Dilsheimer has vast experience handling complex, catastrophic injury cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, as well as other locations around the country. He concentrates his practice on major, catastrophic injury litigation. He has worked on the settlement and trial of several multi-million dollar cases and has a wide range of experience in cases involving traumatic brain injury, defective products, construction accidents, FELA, premises liability, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, subrogation matters, and commercial litigation. Mr. Dilsheimer’s successful verdict in a Monroe County, PA jury trial was reported by The National Law Journal as one of the “Top PA Verdicts of 2010” in the January 2010 edition of Verdict Search National. The trial involved a head-on automobile accident. He graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1992. Mr. Dilsheimer was Managing Editor of the Temple Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1988. Mr. Dilsheimer does pro-bono work for the Gift of Life, which coordinates organ donation and transplantation in the tri-state area.
Daniel Anders
Judge Anders has served as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia since 2007. He was nominated by Governor Edward Rendell and unanimously confirmed by the Pennsylvania State Senate in 2007. On November 3, 2009, Judge Anders was elected to a full ten year term. On November 5, 2019, Judge Anders was retained for a second ten year term. Judge Anders currently serves as the Supervising Judge of the Civil Division where he leads 30 trial judges who are assigned to the Civil Division. He previously served as a Judicial Team Leader for the 2019 Major Jury Program, where he was responsible for the case management and disposition of nearly 8000 major jury cases from initiation of the civil action all the way through trial and post trial motions. Judge Anders previously served in the Criminal Division, where he conducted hundreds of jury and bench trials on major felony cases including attempted murder and rape cases. He started his judicial service in the Family Court Division, where he heard cases involving thousands of at risk children who were abused or neglected. Judge Anders has extensive criminal and civil trial experience including presiding over 150 jury trials to verdict. He has successfully conducted hundreds of settlement conferences that resulted in an amicable resolution of the parties’ claims. More recently, Judge Anders has obtained substantial case management through his service as a judicial team leader for the major jury program and also court administrative experience as the Supervising Judge of the Civil Division. As Supervising Judge, he is responsible for the following programs: Major jury; Mass Torts; Arbitration Center; Arbitration Appeal; Motions Court (statutory appeals and injunctions); Mortgage Foreclosure; Discovery Court; and the Dispute Resolution Center. Judge Anders routinely lectures to judges, lawyers and law students on Pennsylvania civil law and the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence, including at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges and the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Bench Bar conference. He is an adjunct law professor for the Drexel University Kline School of Law where he teaches Pennsylvania Civil Practice. Judge Anders is the General Editor for Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence as well as three legal practice guides published by LexisNexis: Pennsylvania Civil Pre Trial and Trial Practice Guides and Pennsylvania Civil Discovery. From 2017 to 2022, Judge Anders served as one of two judges on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee. From 2017 to 2020, Judge Anders was the president of the International Association of LGBTQ+ Judges, which has over 500 LGBTQ+ judicial members from across the world. Prior to his judicial service, Judge Anders practiced at Pepper Hamilton LLP (now Troutman Pepper), where he represented clients in business business litigation to help resolve disputes in a fair and equitable manner. As an attorney, his outstanding legal and community work won him high praise from his peers in the legal and business communities, including being named as a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by the Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer and one of the Philadelphia Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40.” Judge Anders graduated cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh’s law school and served as an editor of the school’s Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree in political science from Lehigh University. He is the first openly LGBTQ person nominated by a Governor and confirmed by the State Senate as a judge in Pennsylvania, and the first openly gay man to run for public office in the City of Philadelphia.
Dianne Wainwright Esq.
Ms. Wainwright is the Deputy Court Administrator for the Civil Division of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. Working closely with the Division’s Administrative Judge, The Honorable Christine Ward, Ms. Wainwright administers and manages the operations of the Civil Division. Together, Ms. Wainwright and Judge Ward work to improve access to the Court of Common Pleas for all litigants, and provide efficient, effective and fair case management for all cases filed in the Division. Prior to joining the Fifth Judicial District, Ms. Wainwright practiced law handling a variety of commercial matters for corporations, sole proprietors and businesses. Ms. Wainwright’s practice area focused largely on representing professionals (accountants, attorneys, engineers/surveyors, insurance agents, insurers etc.) in numerous contract and professional liability matters. Ms. Wainwright is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association, serving on the Board of Governors. She is a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County where she serves on the Board of Governors, and as the Co-chair of the Diversity Committee. Ms. Wainwright serves as an ex-officio member of the State Civil Procedural Rules Committee and is a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Court Managers. Ms. Wainwright also provides continuing education to professionals where her presentations focus on ethics/professionalism and reducing risks through improved practice management.