Frederick P. Santarelli
BLUE BELL
(215) 977-1024
fpsantarelli@elliottgreenleaf.com
Frederick P. Santarelli, a shareholder in the firm since 1996, has extensive experience in trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts for plaintiffs and defendants in multiple and diverse areas of the law, including complex business and commercial disputes, health care financing and contracting disputes including disputes among managed care and health insurance companies, physician contracts and employment, insurance, health care and insurance fraud, white collar criminal defense, civil and criminal racketeering cases, bankruptcy fraud, corporate director and officer liability, ERISA and employee benefits cases, products liability, government agencies' disputes, civil rights disputes, class actions, labor relations disputes, insurance insolvencies, personal injury, multidistrict litigation matters, injunctions enforcing restrictive covenants and non-compete obligations, as well as injunctions to enforce other contractual rights and business interests.
Before joining the firm in 1990, Mr. Santarelli. served a judicial clerkship with the President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a court having both trial and appellate jurisdiction in complex litigations across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Building upon his judicial clerkship experience, Mr. Santarelli has also developed an extensive background in practicing before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in both the original and the appellate jurisdiction of the Court. He has served as lead counsel in defending director and officer liability claims brought by the Insurance Commissioner in the Commonwealth Court's original jurisdiction, alleging hundreds of millions of dollars in damages (PHICO liquidation); as well as successfully defending against multi-million dollar claims by the Insurance Commissioner in the Reliance liquidation. He has also tried cases before governmental and administrative agencies and in arbitration matters, including a recent defense verdict after 22 days of trial, on contract and related commercial claims seeking over $10,000,000 in alleged damages.
Mr. Santarelli has served on the faculty of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute for Continuing Legal Education, speaking on the complex issues that arise in class action litigation under federal and state wage and hour laws (" Tough Issues in Wage & Hour Law ", Pennsylvania Bar Institute, March 2003), and also co-authoring other materials for continuing Legal Education Seminars. Mr. Santarelli has represented both corporations and individuals in class actions, employment matters and contractual disputes, including class actions litigated across the country under the Multi-District Litigation rules. He has also argued before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on issues of first impression in class actions. Among his cases on behalf of clients in federal and state courts, Mr. Santarelli presented the successful oral argument in the nationally-significant precedential class action under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, De Asencio, et al. v. Tyson Foods, Inc., --- F.3d ----, 2007 WL 2505583, C.A.3 (Pa.), 2007 (September 06, 2007), petition for rehearing denied (October 5, 2007).
For the past five years, Mr. Santarelli has been selected, in a statewide poll of over 35,000 Judges and lawyers, as in the top 5% of all Pennsylvania lawyers, achieving the status as one of Pennsylvania's "SuperLawyers" as recognized in Philadelphia Magazine and the Pennsylvania SuperLawyers publications.
Mr. Santarelli graduated from the Widener University School of Law in 1988. While working full-time throughout law school, Mr. Santarelli graduated cum laude, served as an editor of the law review, and published an article that has been cited in several judicial opinions (Santarelli, Preliminary Injunctions In Delaware: The Need for A Clearer Standard , 13 Del.J.Corp.L. 107 (1988)).
He graduated from Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, with a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration in 1984, where he was selected most valuable lineman on the varsity football team.
Mr. Santarelli has been a long-term resident of South Philadelphia. He graduated from Saint Joseph 's Preparatory High School in 1980.
He is a member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of New Jersey, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.
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