O'Connor, Sean A.

Stanley B. Edelstein is a member of Jacoby Donner, P.C., with a practice concentrated in the areas of construction litigation and construction law, business and real estate litigation and employment law. He also serves as a mediator of construction and employment disputes.

Mr. Edelstein is a member of the Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and the Litigation, Labor and Employment, and Alternative Dispute Resolution Sections of the American Bar Association, and has served as chair of the State Civil Judicial Procedures Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. He is also a member of that association's Federal Courts Committee, Construction Law Committee, and Real Property Section.

Mr. Edelstein earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Carnegie-Mellon University, and his J.D. from George Washington University's National Law Center, where he graduated with honors and served on the George Washington Law Review. Immediately after law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In 1993, Mr. Edelstein became one of the first attorneys in Philadelphia to complete the intensive course in Construction Mediation sponsored jointly by the American Bar Association's Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and the Atlanta Regional Office of the American Arbitration Association.

In addition, Mr. Edelstein writes and lectures on construction and employment law issues, and has served as course planner and instructor for courses for attorneys given by the Philadelphia Bar Education Center in the area of legal ethics and professional responsibility.