Background
Berger, David was born on September 6, 1912 in Archbald, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonas and Anna (Raker) Berger.
Berger, David was born on September 6, 1912 in Archbald, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Jonas and Anna (Raker) Berger.
AB cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1932; Bachelor of Laws cum laude, University of Pennsylvania, 1936.
Worked at Berger & Montague, Professional Corporation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also West. Palm Bch., Florida) specializing in Complex Litigation, Class Actions, Antitrust Law, Securities Law, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Reorganization. Admitted to the bar, 1938, Pennsylvania.
1946, United States.
Supreme Court. 1984, New New York
Order of the Coif. Member, Board of Editors, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1935-1936.
Author: "Litigation of a Class Action," Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Forum, 1982. Assistant to Professor Francis H. Bohlen in the drafting of Restatement of Torts I, 1936-1938.
Special Assistant to Dean Earl G. Harrison, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1946-1947.
Associate Trustee, University of Pennsylvania. Member, Board of Overseers, University of Pennsylvania Law School, which has established David Berger Chair of Law for the improvement of the administration of justice. Law Clerk: Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1938-1939 and United States.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1945-1946.
Participant: American Bar Association Panels on Class Actions, 1969 and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, 1984-1985. Class Actions in Mass Tort Cases, 1969.
American Language Institute -American Bar Association panels on Anti-Trust, 1975-1976. Partito Liberale Italiano (Italian Liberal Party) panels on Complex Litigation, 1976-1978.
Federal Bar Association Panels and various panels for Federal Rules of Evidence, 1974-1977.
Life Member: American Law Institute. Judicial Conference of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Appointed by United States.
Supreme Court and served on Committee which drafted Federal Rules of Evidence, 1965-1975.
City Solicitor of Philadelphia, 1956-1963. Chairman, Pennsylvania Superior Court Advisory Committee, 1979-1981.
Member, National Defense Executive Reserve, 1963. Founder, 1977and Chairman, 1977, of Berger & Montague, Professional Corporation Member: Association of the Bar of the City of New New York
Philadelphia (Chancellor, 1963), Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania and American (Chairman, Tort and Insurance Practice Section Class Action Committee, 1983-1985) Bar Associations.
Fellow: American College of Trial Lawyers. International Society of Barristers. International Academy of Trial Lawyers (Member, Board of Directors, 1984.
Dean, 1975-1976).
National commissioner Anti-Defamation League. Associate trustee University of Pennsylvania, member board overseers Law School. Presidential appointee United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Dir.Internat. Tennis Hall of Fame. Trustee United States of America Game Conservancy. Board directors American Red Cross, Palm Beach, Florida.
Founder, member Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies. Fellow American College Trial Lawyers, International Academy Trial Lawyers, International Society Barristers. Member American Bar Association (vice-chair tort and insurance practice section commission on commercial torts 1988-1989), Philadelphia Bar Association (president, Board of Governors, chancellor), Philadelphia Bar Foundation (past president), The Athenaeum Philadelphia, Penn Club (New York City, founder), Order of Coif, The Queens Club (London), Royal Ascot Racing Club (Ascot, England).
Married Harriet Fleisher Berger (divorced). Children: Jonathan, Daniel.