Richard C. Angino has a legal career spanning more than four decades. He has briefed and argued more than 150 appellate cases and has authored and lectured in numerous areas of civil litigation, with a particular concentration on insurance law. He continues to work full time concentrating on cutting-edge issues and major cases.
He distinguished himself as a student athlete at Duquesne High School and Franklin & Marshall College. At Villanova Law School, he was a member of the Law Review and graduated seventh in his class. In 1965, he joined a plaintiff’s civil litigation law firm; in 1968, became the firm’s principal litigator; in 1979 co-authored the (no-fault book); in 1980, received the highest Martindale Hubbell rating of AV from his peers; in 1982, was elected President of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; during his presidency, was the principal negotiator with the insurance industry and the legislature in the later enactment of the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law; in 1983, was selected as one of only thirteen and the only plaintiff personal injury lawyer between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia in the first edition of Best Lawyers in America; has continued to be selected in every bi-annual edition of Best Lawyers from 1983 to the present; and has been selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer since its inception.
Areas Of Practice:
Personal Injury
Insurance Law
Products Liability
Education:
Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1965
J.D.
Franklin & Marshall College, LancasterPA, USA, 1962
Major: English
Published Works:
Pennsylvania Personal Injury Evidence, PaTLA, 1990
Pennsylvania No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, PaTLA, 1979
Honors and Awards:
Best Lawyers in America, 1983 - Present
Listed in all editions for Personal Injury and Civil Litigation
Martindale - Hubbell AV Rating, 1980 - Present
Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
Listed in all editions
Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Professional Associations and Memberships:
Pennsylvania Association for Justice
Past President
American Association for Justice
Author & Lecturer
International Society of Barristers
Fellow
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Pennsylvanie Bar Institute
Lecturer
Dauphin County Bar Association
Past Director, Lecturer
CIVIC
United Way
Chairperson, Special Groups Division 1985-1986
Alexis deTocqueville Society
Leukemia Society of America, Central Pennsylvania
President 1988-1992
Leukemia Society of America, Central Pennsylvania, 1992 - Present
Trustee Emeritus
American Horticultural Assocation
Vice President (1990-1992)
Board of Directors (1983-1992)
President's Council (1985-present)
Villanova University School of Law
Board of Consultors (1994-2001)
Franklin and Marshall College
Development Council (1986-1991)
Trustee Associate (1979-present)
Governor's Residence Preservation Committee
(1997-2001)
Friends of Wildwood Lake Nature Center, Inc.
Chairman of the Board of Directors (1989-1996)
Birth Information:
1940, McKeesport, Pennsylvania, United States of America