Robert C. Daniels

PHILADELPHIA
(215) 977-1058

rcd@elliottgreenleaf.com

The Honorable Robert C. Daniels, former Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge, has over forty years of experience in civil trial and appellate litigation practice in both the state and federal courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in neighboring jurisdictions.

Following Judge Daniels’ graduation from the Temple University School of Law in 1962, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Abraham L. Freedman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Judicial Circuit and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, before embarking upon a civil trial and appellate practice, handling major and catastrophic personal injury litigation in the fields of products liability, construction site accidents, medical and legal malpractice and domestic relations, as well as other "high profile" civil litigation.  He was the founder and President of the Philadelphia law firm of Daniels, Saltz, Mongeluzzi and Barrett.

Judge Daniels has been a leader in the legal community for more than thirty years, during which time he has served as both Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association and as Chairman of its Board of Governors, President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and as a Member of the House of Delegates of both the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.

Judge Daniels has been appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and has served as Chairman and as a Member of the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and is presently a member of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s Civil Rules Committee.

Judge Daniels is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court and Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the United States Courts of Appeals for both the Third and Fifth Judicial Circuits. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Courts and all Trial and Appellate Courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a Member of the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association.

Judge Daniels is the 1983 recipient of the Torch of Learning Award of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, was inducted into the Centurion Society of Duke University of in 1984, was acknowledged as a member of the Centennial Society of the Temple University School of Law in 1995, and was admitted as a member of the Mount Nittany Society of The Pennsylvania State University in 2003 for his contributions as a member of the College of Liberal Arts' Grand Destiny Campaign.

Judge Daniels has also served, as Governor Rendell’s Appointee, as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a Member of the Board of Visitors of the Temple University School of Law, the Board of the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University and the Board of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania.