RODANAST, P.C.
Attorneys at Law
801 Estelle Drive
Lancaster, PA 17601
Tel: 717.892.3000
Toll Free: 1.888.245.0200
Fax: 717.892.1200

Dianne M. Nast is a senior shareholder, officer and director of RODANAST, P.C. Ms. Nast’s practice is centered in civil litigation and class actions.

Education
Ms. Nast graduated from Penn State University and magna cum laude from Rutgers University School of Law.

Career Milestones

• Ms. Nast is listed in Who’s Who In America, Who’s Who In American Women, Who’s Who in American Law and in a variety of other Who’s Who and similar publications.
• Each year since 2003, Ms. Nast has been selected by fellow lawyers to be listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
• Ms. Nast has repeatedly been selected by fellow lawyers to be listed in the Top Women Lawyers in Pennsylvania.
• From 1976 to 1995, Ms. Nast was with the Philadelphia law firm of Kohn, Nast & Graf, P.C., where she was a named shareholder, officer and director.
• In 1995, Ms. Nast became a senior shareholder, officer and director of RODANAST, P.C.
• In 1999, Ms. Nast was selected by Philadelphia Magazine as one of Philadelphia’s Best Lawyers.
• In 2001, the National Law Journal selected Ms. Nast as one of the nation’s top fifty women litigators.
• Ms. Nast has served as Court-appointed Lead Counsel or Steering or Major Committee member in a variety of antitrust, consumer protection, pharmaceutical and other complex cases.

Professional Affiliations

• Ms. Nast served as a Director of the Federal Judicial Center Foundation from 1992 until 2002, appointed by Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. In January 1998, the Chief Justice named Ms. Nast Chair of the Foundation for a term through the year 2002.
• In January 2001, Judge Edward Backer, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed Ms. Nast to serve as a member of the fifteen-member Third Circuit Task Force on Selection of Class Counsel.
• Ms. Nast chaired the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and served a three-year term on that Committee. She served on the Third Circuit’s Committee on Revision of Judicial Conduct Rules of the Judicial Council and on the Judicial Conference Long Range Planning Committee from 1982 to 1990.
• Ms. Nast has served as Lawyer Chair of the Judicial Conference of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
• She is a member of the Historical Society of the Third Circuit, and chaired the Circuit’s Centennial Celebration.
• She was appointed by the late Chief Judge Al L. Luongo to Chair the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Lawyers Advisory Committee, and served for four years in that position.
• She served for three years as President of the Historical Society for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and served for three years as Editor of the Society’s Historical Calendar. Ms. Nast is a current member of the Society’s Board of Directors. She also serves as court-appointed mediator in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Ms. Nast was selected as one of a small group of Philadelphia attorneys to be appointed Judge Pro Tempore, serving as presiding Judge in major civil jury cases.
• She is a member of the American Bar Association Litigation Section, where she served on the Task Force on State Justice Initiatives and on its consulting committee on counsel fees. She served on the Task Force on the State of the Justice System and the Task Force on Strategic Planning. She co-chaired the Section’s Committee on Liaison with International Professional Associations, and served a three-year term on the Section’s Council. She was co-chair of a Section Joint Conference with the British Bar, a week-long conference in London on Civil Justice. She served as a Section Division Director, and co-chaired the Section’s Antitrust Committee.
• She is also a member of the American Bar Association’s Sections of Antitrust Law, Tort and Insurance Practice and General Practice.
• She served a term as Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates, and three terms in the Pennsylvania Bar Association House of Delegates. She was a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Task Force on the Image of the Lawyer.
• Ms. Nast served as a member of the American Arbitration Association Task Force on Alternate Dispute Resolution and Mass Torts. She also served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association.
• Ms. Nast served a three-year term on the Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors, chaired the Association’s Federal Courts Committee, and was a member of the Chancellor’s Committee on Tort Reform and Special Committee on the Bicentennial Celebration.
• She served six years as a Director on the Board of the Public Defender’s Office of Philadelphia.
• She is a member of the Lancaster Bar Association and of the Historical Society of the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Nast is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.
• She is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the Editorial Board of ALI’s The Practical Litigator. She has participated as a panelist on programs at the Judicial Conferences of the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits.
• She frequently serves as a faculty member or panelist on legal educational programs, including programs for the American Bar Association, the American Law Institute, the National College of Advocacy, the American Trial Lawyers Association, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Rutgers School of Law, Dickinson School of Law, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, and Allegheny County Bar Association and Prentice-Hall and Mealey Law Publishers.
• She is a member of the Board of Directors for the Center for Research on Women and Newborn Health and serves as President of the Foundation’s Board.

E-Mail
dnast@rodanast.com