Practice Areas
Honors + Affiliations
Winner of The American Lawyer's 2006 Litigation Department of the Year - Labor and Employment Law
Listed in the highest tier for National Labor and Employment Practice in Chambers USA 2007
Ranked #1 for "Most Prestigious" Labor and Employment Practice, Vault 2008 Associate Survey
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers
Member, Order of the Coif
Member, Philadelphia Bar Association; Chair, Board of Governors (1974); Chair Judiciary Committee (1976); Chair Commission on Judicial Selection, Retention and Evaluation (1979-1981)
Member, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; President (1971-1972)
Chair Hearing Committee, Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1982-1986)
Listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers in America since first published in 1983
Listed as one of the "Top 10 Super Lawyers" in Pennsylvania (published in Law & Politics, June 2004 and Philadelphia Magazine, June 2004)
Recipient, Justice Michael A. Musmanno Award from the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (1989)
First recipient of the Professionalism Award for the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, 1999
Listed, The Best Lawyers in America (2007 & 2008)
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Court Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
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1701 Market St.
Philadelphia, PA 19103-2921
Phone: 215.963.5429
Fax: 215.963.5001
S. Gerald Litvin, considered by many to be the dean of the Philadelphia trial bar, joined Morgan Lewis as senior counsel in September 2004. Mr. Litvin is a valued litigator and trial consultant for the firm. He assists in developing training programs, offers analysis and critique of mock trials and similar trial preparation programs, and helps Morgan Lewis attorneys develop theories, strategies and tactics in individual cases.
Mr. Litvin has tried more than 200 cases to verdict and has trained more than 1,000 trial lawyers in the art of courtroom persuasion. He enjoys a national reputation as a trial lawyer and a teacher of trial advocacy. He joined Morgan Lewis from Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young, a firm with which he was associated since 1968. During his career, he tried cases in areas as diverse as product liability, medical malpractice, highway design, maritime, industrial and public transportation, some of which resulted in record-breaking verdicts on the local, regional and national levels.
In 1972, Mr. Litvin was selected as a teacher at the first National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) in Boulder, Colorado. After several years as a teaching team leader for NITA and similar programs, he became the founder, director and teaching team leader for The Academy of Advocacy created to improve trial skills and enhance the quality of litigated justice.
Mr. Litvin is also a frequent speaker at various law schools, bar associations and a variety of continuing legal education programs in many states, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Iowa, Oklahoma, Delaware and California. In 1990, he was appointed professor of law at Temple Law School where he taught semester courses for third-year students as well as candidates in the LL.M. in Trial Advocacy program that he helped to create.
Mr. Litvin earned his J.D., cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1954. He was awarded the Gowen Fellowship for post-graduate legal studies.
Mr. Litvin is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania.
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1954, J.D.
- Temple University, 1951, B.A.