Areas of Practice

Before and during law school, Phillip Berger worked at the Federal Reserve Bank in the bank compliance department, and then at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission in the litigation department. After law school, Mr. Berger began his legal career in the commercial litigation department of a major Philadelphia law firm. Mr. Berger's practice is concentrated in Commercial litigation and includes the representation of major financial institutions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Washington D.C. His aggressive litigation style and result oriented tactics are his hallmark, and it is those qualities that attract and maintain these clients. He also routinely and successfully represents small businesses in state and federal courts in a variety of commercial matters including litigating partnership and shareholder disputes, temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions.

Mr. Berger also has a sports law practice. He is a former NFL agent who represented collegiate athletes seeking to enter the NFL and he currently represents a boxing promotions company which promotes boxing matches and fighters throughout the United States.

Honors and Awards

• Awarded the Client Distinction Award for excellence of quality of service, overall value, responsiveness, and communication ability- Martindale-Hubbell
• Named one of Top Lawyers in Pennsylvania — The Legal Network, July 2013-2016
• Named one of the People on the Move in Philadelphia - The Philadelphia Business Journal, 2013

Publications

Nationally published American Bankruptcy Institute Journal article in the March 2016, volume 35, number 3 edition.

In the article, Mr. Berger reviewed how Berger Law Group, P.C. successfully opposed a bankruptcy debtor’s efforts to discharge an obligation when the bank had not timely filed an objection to the discharge. Also reviewed is how the courts throughout the United States view this scenario, and possible ways to oppose a discharge, even when those courts were previously adverse to a late filing creditor.

Panelist and Presenter

• Financial Managers Society- Financing and Banking the Medical Marijuana Industry- November 2019
• American Bankruptcy Institute's 12th Annual Mid-Atlantic Bankruptcy Workshop - August 5, 2016- Panelist.
• Villanova Law J. Willard O'Brien American Inn of Court - Presented at Villanova Law University's Sports and Entertainment Law Forum.
• CBS 3 News- Interview- Purchasing Property at Sheriff's Sales.

Admitted to Practice

• United States Supreme Court
• District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for New Jersey
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• New Jersey Supreme Court

Education

• Tufts University (B.A. Economics 1987)
• National Law Center at George Washington Univ. (J.D. 1990)

Member

• Delaware County Bar Association
• Financial Managers Society - Philadelphia Chapter