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| Name | LeRoy S. Zimmerman |
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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania , United States |
| Email | None |
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00, 1935
(89 years)
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| Contributor | eddy 9_99 |
| Last Modifed | Scott³
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| Info | LeRoy S. Zimmerman is Senior Counsel for the firm. Mr. Zimmerman has served in various executive leadership positions in the firm, including former Chair of the firm's Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He also previously served as Member in Charge of the firm’s Harrisburg office.
Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Zimmerman served for eight years as Pennsylvania's first-elected Attorney General, where he was responsible for formulating the legal and law enforcement strategies for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has substantial trial and appellate court litigation experience in major complex civil and criminal cases, including multi-state litigation and litigation dealing with mergers, public corruption, toxic waste and consumer protection. He has personally argued several cases before the United States Supreme Court and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
He previously served for three terms as the District Attorney of Dauphin County, where he tried and supervised numerous major criminal felony cases. He was active in private practice before being elected Attorney General.
Mr. Zimmerman, who has chaired the Criminal Law Committee of the National Association of Attorneys General and the Federal-State Executive Working Group for Prosecutorial Relations, is active in a number of national and state law enforcement organizations and has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous leading educational, healthcare and nonprofit organizations. During his tenure as Attorney General, he was a member of the Pennsylvania Board of Pardons, the Board of Finance and Revenue, the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency, and the Asbestos Litigation Task Force. He is a past president of the Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association and past member of the Criminal Procedural Rules Committee and Judiciary Planning Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as well as the House of Delegates, Judiciary Committee and other key committees of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Education:
J.D., Pennsylvania State University - The Dickinson School of Law, 1959
B.S., Villanova University, 1956
Admissions:
Pennsylvania; U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania
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