Nancy is co-chair of Schnader's Litigation Services Department and formerly was co-chair of the Appellate Practice Group. She has concentrated her practice in federal and state appellate litigation for over 20 years, and has handled cases in a variety of substantive areas before numerous appellate courts, including presenting argument before the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition to briefing and arguing appeals, Nancy regularly is engaged to serve as appellate counsel at pre-trial or trial states of litigation. In 2004, she was selected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, becoming the ninth lawyer and the first woman to be selected as a Fellow from the Third Circuit. Nancy currently serves as a Director of the Academy. She is the co-founder and first President of the Third Circuit Bar Association. She has lectured widely on appellate practice, and has taught appellate advocacy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for the past eight years. Areas Of Experience Appellate Practice · Engaged as appellate counsel, achieved victory before the en banc Pennsylvania Superior Court for Drexel University's Philadelphia Health and Education Corporation in a case involving proceeds to a trust fund. · Represented the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission on appeal in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; obtained victory in employment discrimination matter. · Represented product liability consumer victims in the Chrysler Bankruptcy in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. · Represented railroad defendants in personal injury (child trespasser electrocution) case post-trial and on appeal to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals; case settled for significantly less than the $25 million jury verdict after full briefing and argument in the Court of Appeals. · Represented (by appointment of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals) prisoner and presented argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in a civil rights case involving prisoners' exhaustion of administrative remedies. · Engaged as appellate counsel in product liability case involving a truck roll-over accident, obtained trial court's vacatur of $10 million punitive damages award and the Pennsylvania Superior Court's grant of a new trial on both liability and damages. · Appointed by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals to handle numerous prisoner civil rights and immigration cases, including appointment by the Third Circuit en banc as an amicus curiae to the en banc Court in an asylum case involving China's sterilization policies. · Served as counsel for Consolidated Rail Corporation in Conrail v. Gottshall, where the U.S. Supreme Court reversed two decisions of the Court of Appeals and limited job-related emotional distress claims under the Federal Employers Liability Act. · Obtained reversal in Third Circuit Court of Appeals of order granting federal habeas relief to husband who was incarcerated for more than eight years for civil contempt of an order requiring him to turn over marital assets. General Civil Litigation · Ms. Winkelman serves as Consolidated Rail Corporation's national counsel in nationwide class action litigation involving the rights of railroads to license their rights of way to telecommunications companies for installing fiber-optic cable. Community Activities · American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU-PA), Philadelphia Affiliate, Legal Committee, Appointed December 2008 · Disabilities Law Project, Pennsylvania, Board of Directors, Member, 1990-1999; President, 1999-2007 · Disabilities Rights Network of Pennsylvania, Member, Board of Directors, 2007-2008 · Haddonfield Human Relations Commission, Member (by mayoral appointment), 2004-2008 Clerkships · Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1987-1988 Professional Affiliations · American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Fellow, 2004-present (ninth lawyer and first woman to be selected from the Third Circuit); Elected Member of Board of Directors, 2008-present; Chair of Strategic Planning Committee, 2009-present; and Chair of the Diversity Task Force, 2010-present · The American Law Institute, Elected Member, 2009-present · Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit, Member, Founder, President and Board Member, 2008-2010 · Defense Research Institute (DRI), member, 2007-present; Vice Chair of Appellate Advocacy Seminar, 2009 · Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts, Advisory Board, member, 2007-present · University of Pennsylvania Law School, Adjunct Professor, Appellate Advocacy, 2003-2007, 2009-present · Judicial Council of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by Chief Judge of Third Circuit to Lawyers Advisory Committee, Member, 1997-2000 · Philadelphia Bar Association, Co-Chair, Professional Responsibility Committee, 2007-2008; Co-Chair, Appellate Courts Committee, 1999-2002; and Investigator, Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, 1998-present · American Bar Association, 1999-present · Pennsylvania Bar Association, 1988-2005 · Committee for Children with Special Learning Needs (advocacy group for educational rights of children with special learning needs in public schools), Haddonfield, NJ · Lawyers' Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council for the Third Circuit, Member (by appointment of the Court), 1997-2000 · New Jersey State Bar Association Other Distinctions · Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell® · Named to the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™, 2011 · Recognized as a "Local Litigation Star" for Pennsylvania in Benchmark Litigation, 2011-2012 and Benchmark Litigation Appellate, 2012 · Listed annually in The Best Lawyers in America for appellate law, 2006-2012 · Named a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer" for appellate law from 2004-2011; one of the top 50 female attorneys in Pennsylvania for 2005-2011 · Recipient of the Earl G. Harrison Pro Bono Award - 2006 · Honors, including the first-ever Passionately Pro Bono Award from HIAS & Council, an immigration and asylum public-interest agency, in recognition of outstanding pro bono work on an asylum case - 2005 · Pennsylvania Bar Association Pro Bono Award, recognizing excellence in providing pro bono legal services - 2005 · The Burton Awards for Legal Achievement, presented to the 20 best legal writers in the top 500 largest law firms in the United States - 2004 · Multiple Sclerosis Leadership Class Award, National Multiple Sclerosis Society - 2001 · John Minor Wisdom Public Interest and Professionalism Award, American Bar Association - 2000 · Recipient of the Women of Distinction of Haddonfield Award, presented by Mayor, Haddonfield, NJ News 11/17/2011, Schnader Ranked as "Highly Recommended" in the 2012 Benchmark Litigation and Appellate Guides 11/02/2011, Legendary Lawyer Jerome J. Shestack Achieves a Posthumous Victory in the Case Brought Against CBS by the FCC for the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show 09/20/2011, Schnader Achieves Victory for the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission in Third Circuit Court of Appeals 09/19/2011, Sixty-Eight Schnader Attorneys Rated AV® Preeminent™ by Martindale-Hubbell® 09/16/2011, Schnader Obtains Important Trust Victory before the en banc Pennsylvania Superior Court in an Appeal on Behalf of Philadelphia Health & Education Corporation 09/01/2011, Thirty Schnader Attorneys Recognized as "The Best Lawyers in America" for 2012 05/27/2011, Super Lawyers Recognizes Many Schnader Attorneys in 2011 03/21/2011, Eleven from Schnader Are Members of The American Law Institute 01/07/2011, Schnader Lawyers Win Before the Third Circuit in Appeals Case on Behalf of the Pennsylvania Gaming Board 10/27/2010, Schnader Ranked as "Highly Recommended" in the 2011 Benchmark Litigation Guide 10/14/2010, Four from Schnader Are Members of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers 09/09/2010, Schnader Participates in Successful Defense of a Lower Court Decision Striking Down Hazelton, PA Immigration Ordinances 08/04/2010, Thirty-Two Schnader Attorneys Recognized as "Best Lawyers in America" for 2011 05/20/2010, Schnader Names John Gisleson and Nancy Winkelman Co-Chairs of Litigation 02/01/2010, Schnader Delivers Significant Victory for the State Bar of California 01/01/2010, Super Lawyers Recognizes Many Schnader Attorneys in 2010 09/21/2009, Nancy Winkelman Engaged to Craft Petition to U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Regarding Delaware's Appeal for Single-Game Wagers 06/19/2009, Appellate Success: Hagan v. Rogers 06/15/2009, Schnader Attorneys Featured in Media Reports Regarding the On-Going Auto Bankruptcy Cases 06/03/2009, Schnader Team Representing Unsecured Creditors in the Chrysler and GM Bankruptcies are Highlighted in the Media 05/27/2009, Many Schnader Attorneys Honored as 2009 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers 05/24/2009, Nancy Winkelman Quoted in Article Highlighting Drexel Law's First Graduating Class 05/05/2009, Appellate Success: Violations of Broadcast Indecency Provisions During Super Bowl 03/26/2009, Nancy Winkelman Elected to Membership in the American Law Institute 02/24/2009, Nancy Winkelman Weighs in on U.S. Supreme Court Request 02/20/2009, Schnader's Winkelman Featured in Article on an Appeal Regarding Immigration Law 02/19/2009, Appellate Success: Guang Lin-Zheng v. Attorney General 02/12/2009, Schnader's Solano and Winkelman to Appear on the Pennsylvania Cable Television Network 11/12/2008, Nancy Winkelman Quoted in Philadelphia Inquirer Article on an Appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court by Victims of the September 11th Attacks 09/29/2008, Twenty-Eight from Schnader in Best Lawyers in America 2009 09/23/2008, Schnader's Nancy Winkelman Elected to the Board of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers 09/19/2008, Schnader Delivers Significant Victory in NJIT Case Regarding the School's Trademarks 09/03/2008, Schnader Receives ABA Exceptional Service Award for Death Penalty Representation 06/09/2008, Schnader Employs a Unique Procedural Tactic to Achieve a Significant Victory Before the U.S. Supreme Court 01/29/2008, Winkelman Named Co-Chair of Phila. Bar Professional Responsibility Committee 11/26/2007, Schnader Well-Represented in Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit 09/18/2007, Many Schnader Attorneys are 2007 Super Lawyers, 2008 Best Lawyers 09/18/2007, Twenty-Four from Schnader in Best Lawyers in America 2008 09/06/2007, Schnader Wins Third Circuit Appeal in RLUIPA Case 06/06/2007, Firm's Segal Institute Featured in Philadelphia Inquirer 05/29/2007, Twenty-Seven Schnader Attorneys Named 2007 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers 05/09/2007, Schnader Attorneys Involved with New Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual 03/23/2007, Winkelman Appointed to Board of Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts 12/01/2006, Winkelman Writes on Camara Asylum Case 10/18/2006, Winkelman Quoted in Article About Truck-Crash Lawsuit 09/05/2006, Twenty from Schnader in Best Lawyers in America 2007 09/01/2006, Winkelman Article Selected for ABA's Litigation Manual 07/24/2006, Winkelman Receives 2006 Earl G. Harrison Award 07/20/2006, Thirty-Five Schnader Attorneys Are 2006 Super Lawyers 05/31/2006, Thirty-Three Schnader Attorneys Honored as 'Pennsylvania Super Lawyers' 04/14/2006, Winkelman Appointed to Phila. Bar Nominating Committee 03/08/2006, Schnader Appellate Group Feted in The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine 02/24/2006, Georgetown Law Center Honors Schnader for Pro Bono 12/20/2005, Schnader Attorneys Feted for Contributions to Community, Profession 11/01/2005, Judge Lewis, Winkelman Quoted Extensively in Media about Judge Alito 10/20/2005, Schnader Attorneys Honored for Outstanding Pro Bono Work 09/06/2005, Several Schnader Lawyers Noted as Best in America 07/07/2005, Schnader Attorneys Feted as Super Lawyers 05/09/2005, Pennsylvania Bar Association Lauds Schnader Partner's Pro Bono Work 02/16/2005, Schnader Appoints Hiring Co-Chair, Hires New Legal Recruiter 01/01/2005, Schnader Partner To Co-Chair Philadelphia Bar Association Professional Responsibility Committee 12/16/2004, Schnader Partner Is Elected to American Academy of Appellate Lawyers 06/01/2004, Schnader Lawyers Noted as 'Pennsylvania Super Lawyers' in 19 Categories 06/01/2004, Schnader Names Nancy Winkelman Co-Chair of Appellate Practice Group 05/06/2004, Schnader Partner Nancy Winkelman Wins National Legal Writing Honors 02/14/2003, Florida Press Reports on Schnader's Representation of Philadelphia in Case Concerning Condo Owners' Rights Related Events 08/21/2007, Drexel University College of Law Orientation Program 11/02/2005, Inside Alito's Courtroom 11/19/2004, Effective Advocacy in the Federal Appellate Courts Publications Articles 11/01/2010, "The Benefits of Moot Courts: From the Perspectives of an Arguing Attorney and a Judge" 06/01/2010, "Moot Courts: What Works and Why" 03/05/2010, "The Important Role of Appellate Counsel in Litigation" 11/23/2009, "Just a Brief Writer?" 05/01/2006, "Finding Our Way to Victory" 01/01/1996, "Mediation, Submission, Hearing and Oral Argument" Books 09/01/2011, Appeals Across America: An Insider's Guide to Appellate Practice in Federal and State Courts 08/01/2010, Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (Second Edition) 06/01/2010, Contempt on Appeal 06/01/2010, The Insider's Guide to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit 05/05/2008, Now That the Trial is Over: Preserving Issues on Appeal in the Federal Court 01/01/2006, Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (First Edition) Alerts 08/28/2009, Fridenberg Decision Brings New Reason to Pennsylvania Trust Law Newsletters 07/27/2007, Pro Bono Newsletter 04/01/2007, Schnader Appeals 10/01/2006, Schnader Appeals 08/01/2005, Issues and Trends in New Jersey Law 05/01/2005, Pro Bono Newsletter Speaking Engagements 10/28/2011, Nancy Winkelman to Present at the 8th Constitutional Law Conclave 09/21/2011, Nancy Winkelman Presents at Trial and Appellate Mediation CLE Program 11/04/2010, CLE Session: Preventing Nightmares: Preserving Issues and Avoiding Waiver at Trial and on Appeal 06/08/2010, Dennis Suplee and Nancy Winkelman Participate in Seminar on Winning Litigation Strategies 02/26/2010, Schnader's Nancy Winkelman Speaks at 2010 Winter Meeting of the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel 12/07/2009, CLE Session: Appellate Mediation in Pennsylvania 11/05/2009, Conference: Eighth Annual Defense Research Institute Appellate Advocacy Conference 11/14/2008, Schnader's Nancy Winkelman Serves as a Course Planner and Faculty Member for a CLE on Appellate Practice 05/02/2008, Effective Advocacy in the Federal Appellate Courts 03/19/2008, The Unique Perspective of Judge-Turned-Litigant 04/18/2007, Schnader's Nancy Winkelman speaks about Federal Appellate Practice at the Richard S. Rodney American Inn of Court in Wilmington, Del 03/06/2007, Cause for Distress? The Current State of Federal Employer Liability Act (FELA) Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress Claims 08/21/2006, Appellate Practice and Procedure in Pennsylvania Courts 08/21/2006, Appellate Practice in the Pennsylvania Courts 05/02/2006, Nancy Winkelman speaks at the "Improving Federal Appellate Practice" session at Third Circuit Judicial Conference 11/09/2005, How to Win Your Appeal in the First Three Pages of Your Appellate Brief 11/09/2005, Picking Your Best Issues - Strategies for the First Three Pages of Your Appellate Brief 03/16/2005, Appellate Brief Writing - The Basics and Beyond |