Education

• B.A., Clarion University of Pennsylvania (graduated with highest academic honors-summa cum laude)(1990)
• Juris Doctorate, Temple University Beasley School of Law (graduated with the Bertram K. Wolf Award)(1995).
• Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Cornell University (2020).
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Professional Litigation Experience

Emmanuel has been selected as a member of the National Association of Distinguished Counsel-the Nation’s Top One Percent of attorneys.

The publishers of the Philadelphia Magazine have multiple times named Emmanuel one of the best plaintiff’s personal injury lawyers in Pennsylvania with the designation of a Pennsylvania Super lawyer. Only five percent (5%) of Pennsylvania lawyers receive this honor. A Super Lawyer is an attorney recognized by his peers as outstanding in the practice of law.

Emmanuel was a partner with the Philadelphia plaintiffs’ law firm of Eaton & McClellan before he founded Emmanuel Law Firm, LLC. Prior to working at Eaton & McClellan, Emmanuel practiced both as a defense and plaintiff’s lawyer with another Philadelphia law firm. In that position Emmanuel represented defendants in eminent domain, employment, health care, labor, medical malpractice, and personal injury actions. He also performed substantial legal research and writing, and reviewed collective bargaining agreements and other contractual provisions. Further, he took and defended depositions, and engaged in substantial motions practice, and provided trial support.

From October 1996 through January 31, 1998, Emmanuel served as the law clerk to the Honorable Judge Ricardo C. Jackson of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. In his capacity as Judge Jackson’s law clerk, Emmanuel engaged in extensive legal research and writing, and drafted judicial opinions. He also reviewed pre and post-trial motions and briefs, and examined the accuracy of graded offenses and their ranges under the Pennsylvania Sentencing Guidelines.

Academic Honors, Awards, and/or Recognitions

• B.A., Clarion University of Pennsylvania-Graduated with Highest Honors (summa cum laude).
• Bertram K. Wolf Prize at graduation-Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Dean’s List (three semesters), Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• First Prize, BLSA’s First Year Essay Competition, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Best Paper, Constitutional Law and Foreign Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Distinguished Class Performance, Constitutional Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Distinguished Class Performance, Civil Rights Remedies, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Distinguished Class Performance, Employment Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law.
• Distinguished Class Performance, Trusts and Estates, Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Teaching Experience

Emmanuel has been an Adjunct Professor of Law since 2002. He has taught continuing legal education courses for lawyers, and has been for many years, a Sunday School Teacher.

Litigation Honors, Awards, and/or Recognitions

Multiple times named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer by the publishers of Philadelphia Magazine.
National Association of Distinguished Counsel-Nation’s Top One Percent.
Pennsylvania Bar Association Presidential Award (2005) for co-chairing and helping coordinate the inaugural symposium on judicial independence in honor of late Pennsylvania Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr.
Lifetime Member of Million Dollar Advocates Forum.

Licensure

Pennsylvania (1995).
District of Columbia (2001).

PUBLISHED LAW REVIEW, JOURNAL & NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

• Arguing Against Elitism, Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine, July/August 2010.
• Mentoring Law Students as a Means to Improving Diversity in the Field, The Legal Intelligencer, May 22, 2009.
• Diversity Divergence: Justice’s Concurrence on School Diversity Critical to Equal Opportunity in Education, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Winter 2008.
• Plaintiffs Firms and Minorities: A Reminder of Continuous Exclusion?, The Legal Intelligencer, June 19, 2007.
• Tort Reform Voir Dire Questions In Medical Malpractice Cases, The Practical Litigator (ABA journal), May 2007.
• ‘Medical Malpractice Crisis’ Issues Proper for Voir Dire, The Legal Intelligencer, March 17, 2006.
• Commentary: In Honor of Late Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., The Legal Intelligencer(Philadelphia, PA), August 12, 2005, at 7.
• Judicial Independence and the Minority Jurist: The Shining Example of Chief Justice Robert N.C. Nix, Jr., 78 Temple. L. Rev. 379 (Summer 2005).
• Commentary: Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr.: A Primus Inter Pares Among Barristers, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), April 8, 2005, at 9.
• Commentary: Practicing Law in the Spirit of Martin Luther King, Jr., The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), January 21, 2005, at 8.
• Litigation: New Rule 223.3: The Antidote to Carpinet v. Mitchell? The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), October 2, 2004, at 5 and 6.
• Commentary: Scalia’s ‘Original Intent’ Position is Exclusionary, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), June 16, 2004, at 5 and 8.
• Guest Commentary: Bill Cosby’s Recent Comments About the Behavior of Some Minorities, The Philadelphia (PA) Sunday Sun, June 13, 2004, at pgs. 4 and 6.
• Commentary: Brown v. Board of Education: A Legacy for the Ages?, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), May 17, 2004, at 5 and 10.
• Litigation: The Exception to the Coordinate Jurisdiction Rule is Clarified, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), December 29, 2003, at 5 and 6.
• Litigation: Handling of Specimen Requires Reasonable Care, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), June 23, 2003, at 5 and 10.
• Litigation: Limiting the Scope of Recovery Under the Tort Claims Act, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), June 5, 2003, at 5-6.
• Litigation: High Court Marches Toward Color-Blind Justice: Race Based Jury Selection Prohibition Reaffirmed, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), May 1, 2003, at 5-6.
• Colonial Rapacity and Political Corruption: Roots of African Underdevelopment and Misery (with Emeka A. Iheukwumere), Chicago-Kent Journal of International and Comparative Law (Spring 2003, Volume 4).
• Commentary: Affirmative Action Is a Program Worth Preserving, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), February 19, 2003, at 7.
• BET, Telemundo and Univision Refuse to Rate Programs that Could be Inappropriate to Youth, (Guest Opinion), Philadelphia Sunday Sun, August 11, 2002.
• Doctor, Are You Experienced? The Relevance of Disclosure of Physician Experience to a Valid Informed Consent, 18 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 373 (Summer 2002)(Catholic University of America Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy)(listed in Prof. Jack Kircher of Marquette University Law School’s 2003 Law Review Articles of Interest).
• Balancing Rights of Injured Victims with Statutory Offset Under the Property and Casualty Guaranty Act: Panea v. Isdaner, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly (July 2002).
• Culmination of a Trend in Limiting the Scope of Informed Consent? Duttry v. Patterson, 73 Pa. Bar. Ass’n Q. 21 (Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly)(January 2002).
• Title VII, Affirmative Action, and the March Toward Color-blind Jurisprudence (with Prof. Philip Aka), 11 Temp. Pol. & Civ. Rts. L. Rev. 1 (Fall 2001) (Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review).
• The Coordinate Jurisdiction Rule and the Law of the Case Doctrine: Important Tools of Judicial Economy and Efficiency, The Philadelphia Lawyer (Fall 2001).
• How Constructive Notice Figures in Negligence, The Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia, PA), July 2, 2001.
• Application of the Corporate Negligence Doctrine to Managed Care Organizations: Sound Public Policy or Judicial Overkill? 17 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 585 (Summer 2001)(Catholic University of America Journal of Contemporary Health Law & Policy)(listed in Prof. Jack Kircher of Marquette University Law School’s 2002 Law Review Articles of Interest).
• Admissibility of Scientific Evidence Under Pennsylvania Law: An Excursion Through the Frye Test, 71 Pa. Bar. Ass’n. Q. 103 (Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly)(July 2000)(with Craig L. Thorpe, Esquire,).
• Litigating Medical Malpractice Claims:Developments in the Law (with Prof. Frank M. McClellan), ALI-ABA Course of Study Materials(1999-2003).
• Reality of Discrimination, Necessity of Affirmative Action, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Fall 1999, Vol.62, No. 3.
• Not Enough Progress (on minority hiring, promotion, and retention), 21-AUG Pa. Law. 38 (The Pennsylvania Lawyer, July 1999).
• Prescription Drugs Liability in Pennsylvania: Is Strict Liability Dead?, 70 Pa. Bar. Ass’n. Q. 135(Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly)(July 1999).
• Punitive Damages in Pennsylvania: Is Gross Negligence Enough? 69 Pa. Bar. Ass’n. Q. 180(Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly) (October 1998).
• Differences Between the Pennsylvania Sovereign Immunity and Political Subdivision Tort Claims Acts, 69 Pa. Bar. Ass’n. Q. 16 (Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly)(January 1998).
• HIV Positive Medical Practitioners: Legal and Ethical Obligations to Disclose, 71 St. John’s L. Rev. 715 (Fall 1997)(listed among the law review articles worth reading in the National Law Journal in 1998).

Published Cases

Whittington v. Episcopal Hospital, 768 A.2d 1144 (Pa. Super. 2001)(co-trial counsel and lead appellate counsel).
Taylor v. Einstein Medical Center, 723 A.2d 1027 (Pa. Super. 1998)(co-appellate counsel).

Professional Organization Memberships and Positions

• Fellow of the Academy of Advocacy (2001).
• Co-Chairman, Pennsylvania Bar Association/Pennsylvania State Conference of Trial Judges’ Committee on “Pursuit of an Independent Judiciary: The Writings of Justice Nix.”(2005-2006).
• Chairman, Minority Bar Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (2002-2004).
• Co-Vice Chairman, Minority Bar Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (May 2000- May 2002).
• Co-Chairman, 16th Annual Minority Attorney Conference (2004) Planning Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
• Co-Chairman, 15th Annual Minority Attorney Conference (2003) Planning Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
• Co-Chairman, 13th Annual Minority Attorney Conference (2001) Planning Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association.
• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association.
• Member, Philadelphia Bar Association.
• Member, American Association for Justice, formerly known as American Trial Lawyers Association.
• Member, National Bar Association.
• Member, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, formerly known as the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association.
• Member, Barristers’ Association of Philadelphia.
• Member, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Board/Other Appointments

• Former Member of the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
• Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, formerly known as the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association.
• Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
• Editorial Board of the Philadelphia Lawyer Magazine.
• Past President of the Ngwa Cultural Association of the Delaware Valley (1991-92).
• Past President of F.A.N. of the Delaware Valley (1996-1999).
• Ordained Elder, Presbyterian Church of Willingboro.
• Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Willingboro.
• Board of Trustees of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation.