5/26/2010
Eckert Seamans Cherin and Mellott, LLC, a full-service national law firm, is pleased to announce that Bridget E. Montgomery was recently awarded the Outstanding Service Award by the federal judges of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Her service record to the Court includes the co-origination and co-editing duties for the Middle District Manual, the guide to federal practice in the United States Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Previously, Ms. Montgomery served as the President of the Middle District's chapter of Federal Bar Association, and is the long-time chair of its continuing legal education committee. She also chairs the Middle District Court's Lawyer’s Advisory Committee, and has served on the Third Circuit Court of Appeal's Lawyers Advisory Committee since 2004.
In her legal practice, Ms. Montgomery handles a variety of commercial litigation matters for clients involved in manufacturing, real estate, land development and construction, commercial lending, and automobile rental industries. She has handled numerous cases before state and federal courts and agencies, before arbitration panels, and in federal and state appellate courts, in disputes involving contract, construction, trade secrets, commercial banking, lender liability, securities, consumer protection, non-competition, employment, real estate, statutory and constitutional matters. Examples of major cases include constitutional challenges related to government regulation of businesses and individuals, class actions and complex litigation, state-wide redistricting litigation, the defense of a construction manager for a major Commonwealth building project, trade secrets litigation for an international manufacturing company and for a professional trade association, and industrial premises liability litigation.
Ms. Montgomery is also a leader in professional and legal education affairs. In addition to her service to the Middle District, she serves the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as Vice-Chair of its Committee on Rules of Evidence, and served for seven years on the Appellate Rules Committee. She served as the Vice-Chair of the PBA's Federal Practice Committee, and served three terms in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates. In the past, Ms. Montgomery has chaired the PBA's Judicial Selection and Administration Committee, served on PBA's Judicial Candidates Ratings Reform Committee and its Judicial Campaign Advertising Committee, and served as a Director of the Dauphin County Bar Association.
Ms. Montgomery is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the joint Law School/Wharton Labor Law Journal. She earned her undergraduate degree from The Pennsylvania State University with highest distinction.
For more information contact:
Kate Cromie
Marketing Manager
kcromie@eckertseamans.com
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Bridget Montgomery
Harrisburg, PA
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