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 EDWARD F. MANNINO
Partner
emannino@akingump.com
Edward F. Mannino heads the litigation practice group in Philadelphia.
Mr. Mannino has litigated, to final verdict or judgment, hundreds of cases in federal and state courts across the country, including in eight of the nine largest states. As the lead or sole trial counsel, he has tried cases involving securities, antitrust, accountants' liability, RICO, business tort, ERISA, health care, patent and intellectual property, lender liability, banking, Title VII, products liability, contract, construction, public utility, school funding and insurance insolvency issues. In 1990 he was named one of the "Nation's Top Litigators" by The National Law Journal, which commended him for his "enviable record in corporate defense and lender liability litigation." In 1999 The National Law Journal named Mr. Mannino as one of the 10 "top trial attorneys" in Pennsylvania, describing him as "a stellar litigator who is known for handling high profile cases." He has been listed for over 10 years in The Best Lawyers in America for business litigation, and is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as recommended in both commercial litigation and in securities litigation. In a 1990 article, The Wall Street Journal described him as "a well known litigator and an expert in banking and finance law." The ABA Journal honored Mr. Mannino as the lead trial lawyer in one of the five "Major Defense Verdicts of 1988." In 2004, 2005, and 2006, he was named in a survey of his peers as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" and one of the "Top 100" lawyers in Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Akin Gump, Mr. Mannino was a senior partner at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen, L.L.P., which merged with his prior firm, Mannino Griffith, P.C., in 1995.
Mr. Mannino received his B.A. with distinction in American history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, graduating first in the class. He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1966 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated second in the class, was elected to Order of the Coif and served as comment editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Following graduation from law school, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Abraham L. Freedman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
Mr. Mannino is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and is a past chair of the ABA Special RICO Coordinating Committee. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. He is the author of Business and Commercial Litigation: A Trial Lawyer's Handbook (Michie 1995), Lender Liability and Banking Litigation (Law Journal Seminars-Press 1989-2001), The Civil RICO Primer (LRP 1996) and numerous articles in professional publications. He has served as an editorial adviser to Commercial Lending Litigation News, Civil RICO Report and The Practical Litigator. Mr. Mannino is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar and is admitted to practice before all three federal district courts in Pennsylvania, before the Eastern District of Texas, and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 8th and 11th Circuits.
Long active in civic and community affairs, Mr. Mannino has served as an overseer of the School of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania; as a commonwealth trustee of Temple University; as a director of the Historical Society of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Environmental Planning and Information Center of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Roadside Council; as a member of the Appellate Court Rules Advisory Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; and as president of his parish council.
Written Works
"10 Ways to Avoid a Lawsuit," Accounting Today, June 18, 2007
"Preparing for and Surviving the New Class Actions Game - Part II," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, April 2006
"Preparing for and Surviving the New Class Actions Game - Part I," The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, March 2006
"Five Common Errors in Pleading Civil RICO Claims and How to Avoid Them," The Practical Litigator, January 2000
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