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Dale G. Larrimore
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Email: Larrimore@LarrimoreFarnish.com Practice areas: Personal Injury or Disability Claims; Motor Vehicle Insurance Law; Products Liability; Negligence; Wrongful Death Litigation; Worker's Compensation and Workplace Injury; Premises Liability; Breach of Contract or Injury Claims Legal career: Admitted to bar in 1976 for Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Admitted to U.S. Supreme Court in 1981. Education: J.D., Villanova University, 1976. B.A., Swarthmore College, 1972. |
Dale Larrimore is senior partner of Larrimore & Farnish, LLP. He graduated from Swarthmore College and received his J.D. from Villanova University School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in 1976 and to the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States in 1981. He has tried major civil litigation in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania.
Dale serves on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, where he was chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee from 2000-2002. He received the prestigious George F. Douglas, Jr., Amicus Curiae Award for outstanding and industrious appellate advocacy on behalf of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice in 2003. He has been selected as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" annually from 2005 to 2008 by the publishers of Philadelphia Magazine and Law & Politics. Dale is an active member of the Philadelphia Bar Association and served on its Board of Governors from 1999 to 2001, and he has also served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He sits as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia. He initiated and organized the Compulsory Arbitration Training Seminar and was responsible for the training of all arbitrators for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1979 through 1995. Dale is also firm liaison for the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP).
In addition to his practice of law, Dale helps law students and current lawyers develop the skills needed to successfully represent clients in their practices. He is the Executive Director of BAR/BRI of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the principal course that is utilized by most new attorneys to prepare for the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar examinations. He lectures and writes extensively on the bar examination and on issues of Pennsylvania Civil Procedure. Dale has also been an Adjunct Professor at Temple University School of Law since 2000.
Dale has published three books and numerous articles and seminar handouts. He is the author of Pennsylvania Rules of the Road, an authoritative book which is used by trial lawyers throughout Pennsylvania as a reference on the laws, regulations and precedential cases which control the manner in which vehicles must be operated on the streets and highways of Pennsylvania. Dale's Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Litigation is a reference book for attorneys on how to properly investigate and litigate claims for their clients arising out of motor vehicle accidents. Dale has also written Pennsylvania Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials, a text book used by law students in learning about this area of the law. All three books are published by the West Group, the world's leading publisher of law books for attorneys and law students. Dale wrote and edited the Handbook for Arbitrators, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and used in the education and training of attorneys in Philadelphia. He is also the Editor of The PaAJ Automobile Law Newsletter, published by the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and has been editor of Verdict, the monthly newsletter of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.