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Biography

Mr. Lieberman, a litigator, graduated magna cum laude in 1991 from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, was elected to the Order of the Coif and was awarded the David Werner Amram Prize for Civil Procedure. He received his M.S.W. from the Smith College School for Social Work in 1972 and his B.A. from New York University in 1970. From 1991 to 1992, Mr. Lieberman served as a law clerk to the Honorable John F. Gerry, then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. Mr. Lieberman practices in the firm's Philadelphia and New Jersey offices.

Education

University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1991
J.D.
magna cum laude

Smith School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1972
M.S.W.

New York University, New York, New York, 1970
B.A.
Major: English Literature

Clerkship

Honorable John F. Gerry, Chief Judge of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey 
Law Clerk, 1991-1992

Honors and Awards

Fiction Fellow, The Artists Foundation, Boston, MA, 1980
Order of the Coif, University of Pennsylvania, 1991
The David Werner Amram Prize, Civil Procedure, University of Pennsylvania, 1991

Publications

Mal de Mer, Primavera, Vol. 3, 1985
Kideckel, Chicago Review, Vol. 35, 1985
Someone to Call, Primavera, Vol. 10, 1986
Overcoming the Presumption of Arbitrability of ADEA Claims: The Triumph of Substantive Over Procedural Values, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 138 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1827, 1990

Professional Associations and Memberships

Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, American Bar Association, Member
Professional Liability Litigation Committee, American Bar Association, Member
Attorneys' Liability Subcommittee, American Bar Association, Member
Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, Member

Community

Planning Board of the Borough of Haddonfield, New Jersey, Member

Pro Bono

Volunteers for the Indigent Program, Firm Liaison
Prisoner Civil Rights Panel, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Member

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, 1991
New Jersey, 1991
United States District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1992
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1993
United States District Court District of New Jersey, 1991
United States Supreme Court, 1998
United States Court of Federal Claims