C. Dale McClain of Lansdale, a sole practitioner in the Haverford and Worcester law firm of C. Dale McClain Ltd., is president-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and is to become president of the 29,000-member state legal association in 2008.

A member and former parliamentarian of the PBA House of Delegates, McClain is the chair of the PBA Elder Law Section and the co-chair of the PBA Membership Development Committee. He serves as the chair of the PBA Seasoned Lawyers Project, vice-chair of the PBA Planning Committee and on the Council of the PBA Solo and Small Firm Practice Section. He also is a member of the PBA Bylaws, Quality of Life/Balance, and Senior Lawyers committees.

He is a former PBA Treasurer, a former president of the PBA Conference of County Bar Leaders and a former chair of the PBA Young Lawyers Section. He was a founder and first chair of the PBA General Practice (now Solo and Small Firm) Section. He has received three special achievement awards from the PBA for his service to the association.

McClain served as president of the Montgomery Bar Association in 1990 and as president of the Montgomery Bar Foundation in 1991.

He is active in his community and has served as vice president of the board of commissioners of Lower Merion Township, chairman of the Delaware Valley Regional Finance Authority, and president of the Lower Merion Federation of Civic Associations. McClain also served as president of the Laymen's Retreat League.

McClain is a graduate of Villanova University and the Villanova University School of Law and served as president of the Villanova Law School Alumni Association. He also holds a LLM degree in taxation from the Temple University School of Law.