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Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr., Immediate Past President

Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr.
Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr., a shareholder in the law firm of Cozen O'Connor, is the immediate past president of the PBA. Wilkinson is a former zone one governor representing Philadelphia lawyers on the PBA Board of Governors. He is a past chair of the PBA Civil Litigation Section and the PBA Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee and past co-chair of the PBA Lawyer Advertising Task Force Implementation Committee.

He is a member of the PBA Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Advocacy, Editorial, Federal Practice, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, Legal Services to the Public, Membership Development and Professional Liability committees. He also serves in the PBA House of Delegates. Wilkinson is a past president of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and is a life member of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation. He is a PBA-appointed delegate to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates.

Wilkinson is a past co-chair of the State Civil Litigation Section and the Rules and Procedure Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and has served on its Board of Governors. He is a longstanding member of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Professional Guidance and Professional Responsibility committees. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Villanova University School of Law and has served in various leadership capacities with the law school's Inn of Court.

Wilkinson is a member of Cozen O'Connor's Commercial Litigation Practice in the Philadelphia office and a leader of its Alternative Dispute Resolution and Representing the Legal Profession practice areas. A frequent lecturer and author on civil litigation and professional responsibility topics, Wilkinson is the co-editor of the Pennsylvania Ethics Handbook, a comprehensive review of the rules of conduct governing lawyers. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of New Hampshire and the Villanova University School of Law.