1515 Market Street, Suite 700
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1907
215-568-1155
215-568-9319(Fax)
rfeldman@bazless.com

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Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Class Action Defense

Bar Admissions
District of Columbia, 1981 (Inactive)
U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit, 1982
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit, 1983
U.S. Court of International Trade, 1984
U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, 1984
Pennsylvania, 1984
U.S. Court of Appeals,
District of Columbia Circuit, 1984
U.S. District Court,
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1985
U.S. District Court,
Western District of Pennsylvania, 1989
U.S. District Court,
District of New Jersey, 1989
New Jersey, 1989
U.S. Supreme Court, 1994

Education
University of Pennsylvania
Law School
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1980, J.D.,
Summa Cum Laude,
Order of the Coif,
Law Review: Executive Editor, 1979-1980

Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts,
1970, B.A., Cum Laude








A. Richard Feldman
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A. Richard Feldman has been a practicing commercial litigator for more than twenty-five years. His practice, while wide-ranging, focuses on complex financial institution litigation, class action defense, and litigating disputes involving companies in the insurance and financial service industries.

Mr. Feldman has had extensive experience in representing plaintiffs and defendants in matters involving contract disputes, fraud, secured lending litigation, real estate matters, disability law, securities law, business torts, insurance disputes, breach of warranty, disability law, RICO, ERISA litigation, trade secrets, restrictive covenants, and employment matters. His relevant recent experience includes:

Overturning a jury verdict and obtaining judgment as a matter of law by persuading the Superior Court to adopt the Restatement (Second) of Torts' view that true statements cannot be the basis for tortious interference liability;

Representing a financial industry software firm in a multi-million dollar breach-of-contract action;

Defending numerous class actions on behalf of insurers, retailers, and real-estate developers;

Obtaining summary judgment in a class action case of first impression under New Jersey's Truth-In-Consumer Contract, Warranty and Notice Act;

Winning summary judgment and an affirmance on appeal for the defendant in a multi-million dollar contract dispute between two insurance brokers;

Winning summary judgment and an affirmance on appeal for a bank in a case brought under a mortgage satisfaction statute arising out of a commercial mortgage;

Defending a major national mortgage market participant in a suit involving a $30 million claim by a major bank;

Prosecuting an $8 million claim on behalf of a mortgage lender against a competing bank;

Litigating, with Richard Bazelon, a 28-day preliminary injunction hearing in a government contract dispute on behalf of a group of disabled employees;

Prosecuting an injunction action against a commercial landlord on behalf of two tenants who were wrongfully evicted; and

Representing individuals and employers in various kinds of employment disputes.

Mr. Feldman has been a lecturer in the Temple University Law School LLM in Trial Advocacy Program, and a NITA faculty member. He is a member of the board of directors and a past president of CADE Kids, a local charity dedicated to helping inner-city children learn how to avoid drug use, violence and other destructive behaviors.

Mr. Feldman is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A. cum laude 1970), and the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D. summa cum laude 1980), where he was an Executive Editor of the Law Review and member of the Order of the Coif. Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable Henry J. Friendly of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.