 Bernard J. Goodheart
BLUE BELL
(215) 977-1009
bjg@elliottgreenleaf.com
The Honorable Bernard J. Goodheart, of counsel to the Firm, has over 31 years of judicial experience as a distinguished Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. Judge Goodheart served three 10-year terms as a trial judge in the court of unlimited general jurisdiction; and the last 5 as a Senior Judge. For over 25 years as a trial judge, he served exclusively in the civil division of the Court of Common Pleas, addressing major commercial, personal injury, product liability, First Amendment, professional malpractice and equity disputes before hundreds of juries and thousands of lawyers. For the past 1 ½ years he has served in the capacity of civil mediator for the First Judicial District.
Judge Goodheart is a graduate of the 190th class of Central High School of Philadelphia, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1952, followed by his Juris Doctor from the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. In 1996, after completing his course in mediation, Judge Goodheart received his certification as a Mediator by the National Judicial College.
He has frequently been a lecturer on mediation at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania and a presenter at continuing legal education courses sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Trial Advocacy Foundation of Pennsylvania and at the Philadelphia Bench/Bar Conference in Atlantic City. He has lectured in his specialties in the Court of Common Pleas' judicial training program.
From 1958 through 1965 he served as Assistant District Attorney of Philadelphia, serving under District Attorneys Victor Hugo Blanc and James C. Crumlish, Jr.
Judge Goodheart, a Philadelphia native, presently resides in the East Falls section of Philadelphia.
This Attorney in the News
July 2007
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