Kathleen D. Wilkinson, Esquire to Receive the 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Third Circuit
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#3rdCircuit—Kathleen Wilkinson has been selected to receive the prestigious 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Third Circuit. (Her husband, Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr. will receive the same award.) Chief Judge Michael A. Chagares will present the awards in Philadelphia on May 10. Wilkinson is a partner at the Philadelphia firm Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman and Dicker LLP and specializes in complex civil litigation.
“With 40 years of litigation experience, she is regularly entrusted by clients with their most difficult matters, frequently involving death and severe injury,” writes Dale G. Larrimore, Esquire, past president of the Villanova Law J. Willard O’Brien American Inn of Court. “But it is not for her litigation skills that our Inn is nominating Kathleen for this award. What is special is that in achieving successful results for her clients, she has done it the right way—with unquestioned integrity and dedication to upholding the rules of ethics, while at the same time giving back to the bar and community.”
Throughout her career, Wilkinson has been an active member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She served as the association’s president in 2021 and 2022 and led the association’s House of Delegates to adopt the American Bar Association’s Seven Point Wellness Pledge. She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates.
In 2013, Wilkinson served as chancellor of the 13,000-member Philadelphia Bar Association, the country’s oldest metropolitan bar association. In that role, she created the Chancellor’s Leadership Institute, which features programs on mentorship and leadership training for young and diverse attorneys. In 2019, the Philadelphia Bar Association gave her the Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Award in recognition of her leadership within the legal community and her mentoring of other women attorneys.
Wilkinson is a founding member of the O’Brien Inn and was its first woman president from 2004 to 2006. In 2022, she received the Legal Excellence and Professionalism Award from the Herbert B. Cohen American Inn of Court.
Wilkinson earned a summa cum laude undergraduate degree from Kean College in Union, New Jersey, and a law degree from Villanova University School of Law, where she was a member of the Villanova Law Review. In 2013, she received the Villanova Law Alumni Association Gerald Abraham Award for Service.
The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes nearly 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.
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