Professional Leadership

Legal professionals regularly elect Raynes McCarty lawyers to serve in leadership positions, which is a strong measure of their respect for our integrity and leadership skills.

The Firm's attorneys have served at the highest levels:

• President, Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Chancellor, Philadelphia Bar Association, the oldest bar association in the nation
• President, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
• President, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (two members of the Firm have served as president)
• President, Philadelphia Bar Foundation, an organization which supports the Bar's charitable activities
• One Raynes McCarty attorney was appointed three times by the Supreme Court to chair the Board of the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts, a statewide agency that supports legal services for the indigent. Two other Firm lawyers have served on the Board.
• Four of the Firm's lawyers have sat on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association.
• Two of the Firm's attorneys have chaired the Legislative Policy Committee of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, as well as its statewide task forces on medical malpractice and product liability.
• Four of the Firm's attorneys have served on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
• The Firm's members have served in the Pennsylvania Bar Association's House of Delegates and on the Philadelphia Bar Association's Board of Governors-including as its chair.
• One of our attorneys is a member of the Executive Committee of the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
• A Raynes McCarty lawyer serves on the Philadelphia Bar Association's Women in the Profession Committee.
• A Firm attorney is on the Philadelphia Bar Association's Professional Responsibility Committee.
• The Firm's lawyers have served on the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
• One of the Firm's lawyers is a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Committee on Evidence.
• A Firm lawyer was a member of the Supreme Court's ad hoc committee that drafted the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence.
• One of the Firm's members served on the Supreme Court's Civil Procedural Rules Committee.
• Five of the Firm's lawyers were appointed by the Supreme Court as Judges Pro Tem for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.