Joseph F. Roda
Joseph F. Roda is a shareholder
and president of RodaNast, PC. He handles all types of cases that the
firm takes, including individual and class actions.
Education
Mr. Roda was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and graduated
from Harvard University (magna cum laude) in 1971 and the University
of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974, where he and his partner won the
school's Keedy Cup moot court competition in 1974.
Career Milestones
- After law school, Mr. Roda served a clerkship on the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and then
worked for five years with Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, PC, a
nationally prominent litigation firm in Philadelphia.
- In 1980, Mr. Roda established his own firm, Joseph F. Roda, PC,
which became RodaNast, PC in April, 1995.
- Mr. Roda is listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
- Mr. Roda has been named a Super Lawyer by Philadelphia
Magazine, based on a survey of 39,000 Pennsylvania attorneys,
every year that the magazine has conducted this survey. Only the top
5% of attorneys in the state are so named.
- In the 2006 Pennsylvania Superlawyers survey, Mr. Roda was
named one of Pennsylvania's top 100 attorneys.
- Mr. Roda has obtained record verdicts in a number of jurisdictions.
- Among Mr. Roda's recent case results:
- A $24 million verdict against two national railroad companies
for electrocution injuries to two teenage boys.
- A $15 million arbitration award for breach of contract by a
national retailer.
- A $14 million settlement of a national class action for the
partial refund of premiums for worker's compensation policies.
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A major portion of Mr. Roda's practice involves
insurance bad faith, an area that has emerged in Pennsylvania since
1990 with the enactment that year of a state law that gives the
insured the right to punitive damages, attorney fees, costs and
interest if an insurance company acts in bad faith. Mr. Roda's bad
faith cases include one of the largest bad faith verdicts in Pennsylvania
to date under this law.
Professional Affiliations
- Mr. Roda is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, for
which attorneys are selected by their peers, only upon nomination
and review at the local, state and national levels.
- He is also a fellow in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers,
for which attorneys are selected by their peers, only upon nomination
and review at the local, state, national and international levels.
- Mr. Roda has been a member of the House of Delegates of the Pennsylvania
Bar Association, and a Hearing Committee member for the Disciplinary
Board of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
E-Mail
jroda@rodanast.com
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