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FN:John J. Soroko
TEL;WORK:+1 215 979 1124
TEL;TYPE=WORK,FAX:+1 215 689 3449
EMAIL;WORK;PREF:soroko@duanemorris.com
N:Soroko, John J.
TITLE:Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
ORG:Duane Morris LLP
ADR;INTL;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;;Duane Morris LLP | 30 South 17th Street | Philadelphia, PA  19103-4196 | USA | 
URL;WORK:http://www.duanemorris.com
NOTE;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE: John J. Soroko is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Duane Morris. In addition, Mr. Soroko practices in the area of litigation, with particular emphasis on general business, corporate and securities matters, including the defense of securities and other class actions.  He also practices in the areas of professional liability for lawyers and real estate and probate litigation.    

Among many significant matters that Mr. Soroko has handled in his career, on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, was his representation in 2006 of Pennsylvania judges before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in which he secured a ruling that declared as unconstitutional legislation which had repealed an increase in judicial salaries for over 1,100 Pennsylvania judges across the Commonwealth.

Mr. Soroko is listed in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a "Leader in Pennsylvania" and one of the leading lawyers in Pennsylvania in the areas of both general commercial litigation and securities litigation. He also is listed as a SuperLawyer in the area of commercial litigation by Law & Politics and Philadelphia magazines. Mr. Soroko was cited this year as one of the nation's "Top 500 Leading Lawyers" by Lawdragon magazine, which has also ranked him among the nation's "Top 500 Leading Litigators."    

In 2011, U.S. Senator Pat Toomey appointed Mr. Soroko as Co-Chair of the Judicial Nomination Advisory Panel for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to review and recommend nominees for federal judgeships. Mr. Soroko also served in 2010 as a member of the transition team for Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett. Mr. Soroko was a co-founder of the Philadelphia Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies.

He is active in civic affairs, including being Co-Director of the William B. Dietrich Foundation, a Trustee of the Academy of Natural Sciences, a Trustee of the Free Library of Philadelphia and a Director of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.

Mr. Soroko is a 1977 graduate of New York University School of Law and a 1973 graduate of Haverford College. He has also completed a program of executive education at Harvard Business School.

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