James P. DeAngelo

Member
Co-Chair, Litigation
Harrisburg, PA
100 Pine Street, PO Box 1166 | Harrisburg, PA 17108-1166
T 717.237.5470
F 717.260.1679

Jim is co-chair of the firm's Litigation Practice Group. He joined the firm as a business litigator in 1992 after his clerkship with the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

With a broad ranging litigation practice, Jim handles litigation projects in state and federal court, administrative proceedings, arbitration, and mediation.

As a business litigator, Jim represents clients of the firm in all forms of transactional disputes; he has represented and counseled clients on the defense and prosecution of claims related to business transactions, including claims involving corporate, partnership and other business entity control, asset purchase agreements, stock purchase agreements, commercial lending, commercial leases and non-competition agreements. 

As a member of the McNees Automotive Dealership practice, Jim represents automobile dealers in franchise disputes including relocation, new point and termination cases. 

Holding a long-time interest in pro bono service and in the delivery of legal services to the poor, Jim has served as Chair of the Dauphin County Bar Association's Public Service Committee since 1997. He dedicates numerous hours of pro bono legal advice to individuals and families in the central Pennsylvania community.

Jim resides in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, with his wife and daughter.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Immediate Past-President, Dauphin County Bar Association
  • Chair, Dauphin County Bar Association, Public Service Committee
  • President Elect, MidPenn Legal Services
  • President, Community Justice Project
  • Secretary, Harrisburg Singers
  • Life Fellow, American Bar Foundation
  • Delegate, Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates
  • Member, American, Pennsylvania, Cumberland, Dauphin, and Luzerne County Bar Associations
  • Lawyers on the Fast Track, 2005 
  • The Best Lawyers in America®, Commercial Litigation
  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyers®, 2011
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Education

  • Temple University, B.A., 1988, magna cum laude
  • Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1991, Woolsack Honor Society; Dickinson Law Review; Appellate Moot Court Board

    Law Clerk to Hon. Peter Paul Olszewski, Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1991-1992

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 1991

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court