Previous Law Firm Name

• Jacoby, Donner & Jacoby, January 1, 1995

Law Firm Overview

More than seventy years ago, a Philadelphia lawyer named Myron Jacoby started the law practice which is now Jacoby Donner, P.C. Long known as "Philadelphia Construction Lawyers," that reputation continues for our extensive construction law practice, but falls far short of describing the breadth of our practice in serving our ever-diversifying client base.

The Jacoby Donner of the new millennium is a small firm of attorneys dedicated to providing a wide-range of high-quality, cost-effective legal services to businesses and individuals. In addition to the construction law and construction litigation practices for which we are most widely known, our practice includes business law and commercial transactions, real estate, commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, employment and labor law, business succession and wealth preservation planning, estate planning and administration, single and multi employer pension and profit sharing, zoning and land use law and the law of associations and trade organizations.

The lawyers of Jacoby Donner, P.C. represent a cross-section of experience and backgrounds. All principals of the firm practiced at large Philadelphia law firms before joining the practice. Several of the attorneys served on their respective law reviews and moot court boards in law school, while one attorney served as a law clerk to a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and another to a judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Although the firm believes that responsive, high-quality legal services can be provided by lawyers in an environment different from a megafirm of several hundred lawyers, the firm does not believe that smallness is any reason for a lack of impact on the legal community. Accordingly, two attorneys have served as chairs of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Construction Law Committee, and attorneys from the firm have served as chairs of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Real Property Section and State Civil Judicial Procedures Committee, both major components of that bar association with in excess of 300 attorney members each; in addition, one attorney has served as a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Board of Governors. Several of the firm's attorneys are active with the American Bar Association's Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and Litigation Section, and one member serves on the steering committee of that section's Construction Litigation Committee. A member of the firm serves on the Board of Directors of the Design Build Institute of America and another member is active in the Delaware Valley Society of Association Executives.

For a number of years, the firm received honors from the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent program for providing volunteer legal services to the poor on a pro bono basis. In addition, the firm's attorneys regularly write articles in legal publications and teach seminars for attorneys on construction and real estate issues. The firm is active as a member of the Construction Financial Management Association and is an affiliate member of the General Building Contractors Association, the Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania and of the Associated General Contractors of America, the American Institute of Architects, and Lawyers Associated Worldwide (L.A.W.).

Areas of Practice

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Association Law
• Business & Commercial Law
• Business Organizations
• Business Succession Planning
• Commercial, Real Estate & Business Litigation
• Construction Law
• Construction Litigation
• Contracts
• Employment & Labor Law
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Estate Planning
• Estate Planning & Administration
• General Corporate & Business Law Services
• Health & Health Care Law
• Labor Law
• Litigation & Appeals
• Occupational Safety & Health Law
• Pension & Profit Sharing Law
• Personal & Business Wealth Preservation
• Public Contract Law
• Real Estate Law
• Trusts
• Wills
• Zoning Law

Representative Clients

• Construction Industry

West Practice Categories

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Business Organizations, Business Successions, Trade Associations, Construction Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA) -- Employee, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Environmental Law, Estate Planning, Trusts, Wills, Family Law, Government Contracts, Health & Health Care Law, Labor Law, Litigation & Appeals, Probate & Estate Administration, Estate Administration, Real Estate Law, Land Use & Zoning