Hon. Timothy K. Lewis

Counsel

T 412-577-5290; 202-419-4216

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Former federal appeals judge Timothy K. Lewis serves as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner. Judge Lewis is a past co-chair of Schnader's Appellate Practice Group.

Before entering private practice, Judge Lewis served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He was serving on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania when President George H. W. Bush elevated him to the Court of Appeals in 1992. At the time of both appointments he was the youngest federal judge in the United States. Before being appointed to the federal bench, Judge Lewis served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania and as an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

AREAS OF EXPERIENCE

Litigation, Appellate and Arbitration
Judge Lewis’ private practice includes federal and state appeals, complex arbitration and mediation matters, commercial litigation, federal and state criminal cases and corporate investigations. In addition, highlights of his work since leaving the bench include the following:

Judge Lewis has served as a moot court judge and provided strategic counseling in various high-profile appeals. Some of the most recent of these cases have been in the Courts of Appeal for the Second, Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuits and the United States Supreme Court and involved issues of antitrust law, intellectual property, securities fraud, constitutional law, products liability, bankruptcy law, environmental law and successor liability.
Judge Lewis has provided counseling regarding a major federal class action concerning employment discrimination claims.
Judge Lewis was one of four former federal appeals judges who took the unprecedented step of filing an amicus brief on behalf of Delma Banks in the United States Supreme Court in 2003, in a case in which the court overturned the death penalty.
During the fall of 2003, Judge Lewis chaired and moderated a series of national town meetings and congressional-style hearings called by Amnesty International on the subject of “Racial Profiling, Pre- and Post-9/11.”
In December 2002, Judge Lewis served as the U.S. representative on an international faculty of judges and mediators during a U.S. AID-sponsored Mediation Roundtable in the Republic of Croatia.
Judge Lewis is a co-chair of the National Committee on the Right to Counsel (with former Vice President Walter Mondale as honorary co-chair), a bipartisan committee established by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Constitution Project to review the indigent defense system throughout the nation and create consensus recommendations for necessary reforms.

Professional Associations

After leaving the bench, Judge Lewis served as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Study of Rules of Practice and Internal Operating Procedures for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
In June 2000, Judge Lewis was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System.
Judge Lewis is also a member of:
• CPR-International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, Board of Directors
• American Arbitration Association, Board of Directors
• American Law Institute
• American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
• National Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association (Former Member of House of Delegates)
• Allegheny County Bar Association
• Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court

Teaching and Speaking Engagements

Judge Lewis taught “Advocacy and Adjudication” as an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and is a former member of the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago School of Law.
Judge Lewis has served as a guest lecturer, moot court judge, and commencement speaker at various law schools, including the University of Pittsburgh, the Georgetown Law Center, Duquesne, Temple and Harvard.
Judge Lewis has trained Department of Justice attorneys in mediation at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina., and served as an instructor in trial advocacy at the Attorney General’s Advocacy Institute.
Judge Lewis has served on the faculty of continuing legal education programs focusing upon appellate practice and procedure, mediation, arbitration, and employment discrimination.

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

Kiski Prep School Alumni Council, former member
Boule (national post-baccalaureate fraternity of black professional men), member
American Arbitration Association, Executive Committee of the Board, member
Boy Scouts of America, Southwestern Pennsylvania Region, Board of Directors, former member
Pittsburgh Children's Museum Board of Directors, former member
Imani Christian Academy, Governing Board of Directors, member

ATTORNEY NEWS

05/17/2013	Super Lawyers Recognizes Many Schnader Attorneys in 2013
03/13/2013	Timothy Lewis and NAACP President Benjamin Jealous Discuss Civil Rights Movement
02/25/2013	Judge Timothy Lewis Quoted Regarding Judge Paul Simmons Oral History Presentation
09/20/2012	Super Lawyers Recognizes Many Schnader Attorneys in 2012
09/10/2012	Schnader's Judge Lewis Signs Clemency Petition for Terrance Williams
09/04/2012	Schnader Attorneys Offer Comment on Upcoming Supreme Court Cases
08/23/2012	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis and Elizabeth Ainslie Held Press Conference to Voice Disagreement with the Freeh Report
08/23/2012	Thirty-Three Schnader Attorneys Selected for The Best Lawyers in America 2013
05/22/2012	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Appointed to the American Arbitration Association Judicial Settlement Conference Service Panel
04/27/2012	Judge Lewis and The Constitution Project Release Statement on the Department of Justice's Practice of Failing to Disclose Favorable Evidence to Defendants
02/14/2012	A Team of Schnader Attorneys Achieve Appellate Victory for Client in In re SK Foods
01/24/2012	Gov. Jack Markell Commutes Death Sentence of Robert Gattis
09/26/2011	Judge Lewis Featured Guest Blogger for The Peter Jennings Project
09/14/2011	Schnader Attorneys Achieve Victory for General Electric in Important Asbestos Appeal
09/01/2011	Thirty Schnader Attorneys Recognized as "The Best Lawyers in America" for 2012
06/02/2011	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Quoted on White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler
03/21/2011	Eleven from Schnader Are Members of The American Law Institute
01/07/2011	Schnader's Judge Timothy Lewis Discusses Vacant Seats on the Federal Bench on NPR's Morning Edition
11/18/2010	Judge Lewis Joins Judge Abner Mikva in Calling for Reform of the Judicial Nominee Process
10/21/2010	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Invited to Join the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers as an Honorary Fellow
10/14/2010	Four from Schnader Are Members of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers
09/14/2010	Judge Lewis Recognized in Several Publications for his "Champions and Visionaries" Award
08/04/2010	Thirty-Two Schnader Attorneys Recognized as "Best Lawyers in America" for 2011
06/07/2010	Judge Lewis Recognized as a 2010 "Champion" by the Legal Times and National Law Journal
05/18/2010	Judge Timothy K. Lewis Delivers Keynote Address at the Fourth National Symposium for Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution
05/10/2010	Judge Lewis Appointed to the Board of Advisors for the Peter Jennings Project for Journalism and the Constitution
03/22/2010	Judge Lewis Challenges the Brookings Institution's Condemnation of Congress in the National Law Journal Article "Always a Judicial Function"
02/01/2010	Schnader Delivers Significant Victory for the State Bar of California
01/05/2010	Judge Timothy K. Lewis Appointed to the Board of Directors of the Constitution Project
07/13/2009	Judge Lewis and Ken Gormley Offer Comment on the Sotomayor Nomination
06/25/2009	Judge Lewis Continues His Work as the Co-chair of the National Right to Counsel Committee
05/29/2009	Judge Lewis Appointed to the Advisory Board of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
05/12/2009	Judge Timothy K. Lewis Honored with the American Arbitration Association's Outstanding Director Award
04/15/2009	Judge Timonthy Lewis Featured in an NPR Report on the Provision of Counsel to the Indigent
04/15/2009	National Right to Counsel Committee Releases Groundbreaking Report on the State of Indigent Representation in America
02/24/2009	Judge Adams and Judge Lewis to Participate in the Third Annual Peter Jennings Project
02/23/2009	Wellington Represents Schnader at a Tribute to William T. Coleman, Jr.
12/18/2008	Schnader's Ken Gormley Quoted in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
09/29/2008	Schnader a Proud Sponsor of the 2008 Just The Beginning Foundation Biennial Conference
07/15/2008	Schnader Supports the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project
03/21/2008	Judge Lewis Quoted on Diversity in Legal Profession
03/17/2008	Judge Lewis to Speak at ABA's 'Pacific Currents - Sound Perspectives on ADR'
02/13/2008	In Russia, Judge Lewis Speaks on U.S. Human Rights
11/26/2007	Schnader Well-Represented in Bar Association of the Third Federal Circuit
11/06/2007	Schnader Receives Frederick Douglass Human Rights Award
05/09/2007	Schnader Attorneys Involved with New Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual
04/13/2007	Judge Lewis Comments Again on Wecht Case
03/18/2007	Judge Lewis Quoted on Capital Case Representation
01/05/2007	Judge Lewis Elected to CPR Board
11/17/2006	Judge Lewis to Chair American Arbitration Associations’ Committee on Diversity
10/15/2006	Judge Lewis Quoted on Wecht Case
10/07/2006	Judge Lewis Mentioned in Article on Death Penalty Case
09/26/2006	Judge Lewis Defends Habeas Corpus
09/15/2006	Judge Lewis Joins Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court
09/14/2006	Judge Lewis Comments on Third Circuit Nomination
06/09/2006	Judge Lewis to Consult on Diversity in ADR
05/09/2006	Judge Lewis Elected to American Arbitration Association Executive Committee
05/01/2006	Judge Lewis Quoted on Judicial Nomination Process
04/21/2006	Judge Lewis Honored as One of America's Top Jurists
03/08/2006	Schnader Appellate Group Feted in The Pennsylvania Lawyer Magazine
01/12/2006	Judge Lewis Testifies in Support of Judge Alito's Nomination to the Supreme Court – See LIVE Video of the Testimony
01/09/2006	Schnader Attorney to Testify on Supreme Court Nominee
12/27/2005	Judge Lewis to Speak on Supreme Court Nominee Alito
12/20/2005	Schnader Attorneys Feted for Contributions to Community, Profession
11/01/2005	Judge Lewis, Winkelman Quoted Extensively in Media about Judge Alito

ATTORNEY SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

06/07/2012	Schnader Attorneys to Present at the American Bar Association 2012 National Institute on Aviation Litigation
04/16/2012	Schnader Attorneys Presented at DELVACCA In-House Counsel Conference
03/20/2012	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Presides Over Peter Jennings Project 2012 Moot Court
10/10/2011	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Participates in "Judicial Vacancies, Justice Denied" Panel
02/24/2011	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis to Present at the Sixth Annual Arbitration Training Institute
07/19/2010	Hon. Timothy K. Lewis Participates in Capitol Hill Briefing on the Habeas Rights of Guantánamo Detainees Broadcast on C-SPAN
05/18/2010	The National Symposium for Minority Professionals in Alternative Dispute Resolution
11/05/2009	Conference: Eighth Annual Defense Research Institute Appellate Advocacy Conference
04/03/2008	The Challenge of Effective Marketing Strategies and Techniques for Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the Profession
03/19/2008	The Unique Perspective of Judge-Turned-Litigant
09/18/2006	A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence
07/27/2006	Dos and Don'ts of Trying a Patent Infringement Case in Federal Court
03/31/2006	Federal Judicial Conference for the Central District of California

ATTORNEY PUBLICATIONS

Articles
02/27/2012	"It's Time to Fill Judicial Vacancies"
02/06/2012	"Act With Dispatch to Ease Federal Courts' Vacancy Burden"
10/19/2011	"Justice Shouldn't Be Just for the Rich"
10/12/2011	"'Black Like Me': Is Racism Poisoning Our Political Debate?"
09/08/2011	"The Federal Court Nominations Battles: Have We Considered the Consequences?"
11/18/2010	"Let's Fix Judicial Nominee Process"
11/01/2010	"The Benefits of Moot Courts: From the Perspectives of an Arguing Attorney and a Judge"
03/22/2010	"Always a Judicial Function"
Books
08/01/2010	Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (Second Edition)
Alerts
01/14/2011	Interlocutory Appeals of Denials of Motions to Dismiss in the Wake of Twombly: A New Option for the Defense?
06/07/2006	Former Judge Timothy K. Lewis Testifies Before the Senate Judiciary Committee
Newsletters
10/16/2009	Pro Bono Newsletter Fall 2009
04/01/2007	Schnader Appeals
10/01/2006	Schnader Appeals

Education

Duquesne University, J.D., 1980
Tufts University, B.A., 1976

Court Admissions

U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, 1980

Professional Affiliations

The Constitution Project, board member; The National Right to Counsel Committee - An Initiative of the Constitution Project, co-chair
CPR-International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution, board member; CPR Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, member; CPR Diversity Task Force, member
American Arbitration Association, board member; AAA National Task Force on Issues Related to the Arbitration of Consumer Debt Disputes, member; AAA Judicial Settlement Conference Service Panel, member
Duquesne University School of Law, Dean's Advisory Committee, member; Advisory Committee on the Appellate Advocacy Curriculum, member
Georgetown University Law Center Supreme Court Institute, Board of Advisors, member
The Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia, Advisory Board, member
The Peter Jennings Project for Journalism and the Constitution, board member
American Law Institute, member
American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Honorary Fellow

Other Distinctions

Judge Lewis has received many awards and honors, both as a judge and as an attorney, including:

Pennsylvania Bar Association–Minority Bar Committee Award of Achievement;
Recognition in The Best Lawyers in America in the areas of administrative law, alternative dispute resolution, appellate law, and commercial litigation;
Recognition as a 2013 "Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer" for alternative dispute resolution;
Recognition by the editors of The National Law Journal and the Legal Times as one of publication’s 2010 "Champions and Visionaries," honoring attorneys who have gone the extra mile to enhance the business of law and ensure justice is done;
Recognition as one of the "Lawdragon 500 Leading Judges in America," by Lawdragon magazine;
Outstanding Director Award, given by the American Arbitration Association to a member of the organization's Board of Directors who has distinguished themselves through their singular and outstanding efforts in furthering the Association’s mission of service and education in the field of conflict management;
Outstanding Achievement Award from Duquesne University School of Law; and
Distinguished Alumni Award from Kiski Prep School.