Hon. Edward D. Reibman (Ret.)

General Jurisdiction Trial Judge

Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania

• Commissioned Judge (1992–2021); President Judge (2015–2020)
• Senior Judge (2022–2025) sitting in Berks, Carbon, Delaware, Erie, Lackawanna, Lancaster, Luzerne, Lycoming, McKean, Montgomery, Northampton, Philadelphia, Schuylkill, Snyder, Tioga, Union, Venango and Wyoming Counties by assignment of the Supreme Court
• Extensive experience in all aspects of civil, criminal, family and orphans' court
• Original Member, Supreme Court's Judicial Ethics Advisory Board (2022–2025); Continuing Judicial Education Board of Judges (2016–2020); Committee to Re-Write the Code of Judicial Conduct (2011–2013)
• Co-Chair, Supreme Court / Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts' Mortgage Foreclosure Mediation/Conciliation Program (2009–2012)
• Member, Ethics Committee, Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges (1994–2022) (Chair 2009–2015); Supreme Court's Task Force to Study Security in the Offices of the Magisterial District Courts (2019–2020); Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges / Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts' COVID-Related Remote Proceedings Task Force (2021) and Jury Trial Working Group (2020)
• Principal Speaker, "The Transition to the Bench," Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts' New Judge School (2026, 2024 and 2022)

Sole Practitioner — Individuals, Families and Businesses

• Special Counsel to Allentown and Hazleton City Councils
• Cooperating Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Significant Litigation

• Bazemore and United States v. Friday, 478 U.S. 385, 106 S.Ct. 3000, 92 L.Ed.2d 315 (1986), remanded to 848 F.2d 476 (4th Cir. 1988) — class action; employment discrimination and desegregation of state-run programs; use of multiple regression analyses as evidence (lead counsel at trial and Court of Appeals; co-counsel at Supreme Court)
• Machinery Corporation of America v. Gullfiber AB, 774 F.2d 467, 227 USPQ 368 (Fed. Cir. 1985) — standard for awarding attorneys' fees to prevailing party in patent litigation (co-counsel)
• City of Hazleton v. City Council of City of Hazleton, 528 Pa. 604, 600 A.2d 191 (1992), aff'd, 134 Pa. Commw. 174, 578 A.2d 580 (1990) — power to appoint members to municipal authorities

Trial Attorney

U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Washington, DC

1973–1975

Law Clerk

Judge Bryan Simpson, U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Cir. (now, 11th Cir.)

1972–1973

Duke University School of Law

1969–1972

• Research Assistant to Professor William Van Alstyne, "Congress, the President and the Power to Declare War: A Requiem for Vietnam," 121 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1 (1972)
• Research Assistant to Professor Neal P. Rutledge, Petitioner's Brief, Milton v. Wainwright, 407 U.S. 371, 92 S.Ct. 2174, 33 L.Ed.2d 1 (1972)

Lafayette College

1965–1969