Professional Experience:

Leonard A. Busby is a partner in the Litigation Department of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP.  His practice emphasizes complex commercial litigation, personal injury litigation, injunction practice, and appellate matters.

Professional Associations:

Mr. Busby has served as an adjunct professor of law for both trial and pre-trial advocacy at the Rutgers Camden Law School.  He has served as a trial advocacy instructor for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the American Law Institute. 

Mr. Busby currently serves as Chair of the firm's Pro Bono Committee and as a member of the firm's Professional Responsibility Committee.  His community activities have included service as President of the Board of the Philadelphia Bar Association Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP), President of the Anglers Club of Philadelphia, and President of the Stanford Club of Philadelphia.

Recent Presentations and Publications:

Mr. Busby has been published in Litigation, the quarterly magazine of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association. 

Admitted to Practice:

Mr. Busby is admitted to practice in all Pennsylvania State Courts and before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.  Mr. Busby has argued as lead counsel in all State and Federal Appellate Courts in Pennsylvania.

Education:

Mr. Busby received a B.A. degree, with distinction, in Political Science from Stanford University in 1973.  He worked in the housing administration for Stanford from 1973 to 1974 and then served as a VISTA volunteer in Fort Yukon, Alaska from 1974 to 1975.  He earned his law degree from Columbia University in 1978.  While in law school, he was twice named a Stone Scholar for academic excellence.