Mr. Bazelon has successfully litigated a number of precedent-setting cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Brokerage Concepts, Inc. v. U.S. Healthcare, Inc., 140 F.3d 494 (3d Cir. 1998) and Brokerage Concepts, Inc. v. U.S. Healthcare, Inc., 251 F.3d 153 (3d Cir. 2000), involved two successful jury trials, and established the precedent that coercive use of market power in one market to require patronage in a separate market is actionable under Pennsylvania law even where it does not constitute unlawful tying under antitrust laws. In Sons of Thunder v. Borden, Inc., 690 A.2d 575 (1997), the New Jersey Supreme Court upheld a verdict and damage award for breach of specific contract provisions, and a separate verdict and damage award under the same contract for breach of the implied duty of good faith and fair dealing. In Condemnation of 110 Washington Street, Borough of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, 767 A.2d 1154 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2001), the successful challenge to condemnation established the principle that a condemnor cannot cede decisions concerning the condemnation to a private party to whom the condemnor intends to convey the property.

Mr. Bazelon has successfully represented major law firms accused of violating fiduciary obligations. In 2001, following several weeks of trial, a compulsory non-suit was entered in favor of a law firm client, and affirmed on appeal. In 2005, summary judgment was entered in favor of a law firm client in a lawsuit by a major corporation.

Mr. Bazelon has served on faculties of the American Law Institute–American Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute and New Jersey Institute for Continuing Education on subjects of trial advocacy and commercial litigation. He was a Lecturer in Law, Appellate Advisory, at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1982-83, and served as a reporter for the Commission on Uniform State Laws, 1982-84. In 1999, Mr. Bazelon was named as one of the fifteen outstanding commercial litigators in Philadelphia by Philadelphia Magazine. In 2005, he was named as one of the “top 100 lawyers” in Philadelphia and in Pennsylvania by a survey conducted by Law & Politics, described in the June 2005 issue of Philadelphia Magazine.

Mr. Bazelon has engaged in public service and other public interest work. He served as Chairperson of the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Philadelphia from January 1984 to January 2001. He has been a Board member of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia from 1975 to the present, and Chairperson in 1975. He served as a Trustee of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation in 2000 and 2001. Mr. Bazelon has served as the Chairperson of Beech Interplex Corporation, a community development organization in North Philadelphia formed by the William Penn Foundation, for approximately twelve years.