Marc Zucker

Having served as the 2023 chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Marc Zucker is one of the region’s premier attorneys, whose practice is focused in the areas of complex commercial litigation, alternate dispute resolution and appellate advocacy. For the past four decades, he has litigated disputes involving high-level contract, corporate, construction, real estate, banking, insurance, D&O liability, distributorships, bankruptcy, trade secrets, UCC and employment issues, as well as business torts, class actions, derivative litigation, fiduciary litigation, professional liability matters and “business divorces,” disputes among principals of closely-held entities.

In addition to his client advocacy, Marc Zucker is a distinguished neutral arbitrator and private mediator. He serves as a neutral on the Commercial and Customer Account Panels of the American Arbitration Association, as an arbitrator for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, and as an arbitrator and mediator for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is a longtime member of the volunteer panel of Commerce Program judges pro tempore assisting the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County. In addition, Marc Zucker has served as a court-appointed receiver in commercial matters.

Marc Zucker is well-known for the personal attention, perseverance and responsiveness he gives each of his clients, and the ability to find thoughtful and creative solutions to his clients’ legal challenges. Marc Zucker’s accomplishments have been recognized by his clients and peers.

Mr. Zucker holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell and has been named a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer every year since 2006, an honor awarded to only the top five percent of lawyers in the state.

In addition to his role as immediate past chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Mr. Zucker previously served as vice chancellor and chancellor-elect, and as chair and vice chair of its Board of Governors, as well as its secretary, treasurer and a member of the Board. He is vice chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection & Retention, having sat on the commission since 2019 and served for more than two decades on its investigative division. He is past chair of the association’s Business Litigation Committee and its Judge Pro Tem Task Force. He is an active member of the association’s Federal Courts Committee and Professional Guidance Committee.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and appointed by the president of the ABA to its standing Committee on Professionalism. He co-chairs the ABA Litigation Section’s Corporate Counsel Committee and previously co-chaired its Commercial & Business Litigation Committee.  Mr. Zucker also serves as a member of the ABA’s Standing Committee on Professionalism and the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates.

Mr. Zucker is the author of two chapters in Rantings of a Partner … and Pushback from the Associate, a book published by the American Bar Association in 2012.

From 2004 through 2018, Mr. Zucker taught Trial Advocacy as an adjunct professor of law at Villanova University School of Law. He served as president, counselor and program chair of the law school’s American Inn of Court and chaired the Program Awards Committee of the American Inns of Court Foundation in Washington, D.C. in 2007 and 2008.

Mr. Zucker graduated with honors from Haverford College with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from Villanova University School of Law in 1984.

From 2017 through 2022, Mr. Zucker chaired the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, a statewide advocacy organization for all Jewish Federations in Pennsylvania. He served as an elected trustee and director of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and is an active member of the board of its Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC), which he chaired for over three years.

Mr. Zucker regularly represents clients on a pro bono basis through the Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP) and was an ex-officio board member of VIP from 2020-2023. He  currently is a board member of the Jenkins Public Library and previously served on the boards of the Public Interest Law Center, the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, and Global Philadelphia.