About Jacoby Donner
More than seventy-five years ago, a Philadelphia lawyer named Myron Jacoby started the law practice which is now Jacoby Donner, P.C. Long known as "Philadelphia Construction Lawyers," that reputation continues for our extensive construction law practice, but falls far short of describing the breadth of our practice in serving our ever-diversifying client base.

The Jacoby Donner of today is a small firm of attorneys dedicated to providing a wide-range of high-quality, cost-effective legal services to businesses and individuals. In addition to the construction law and construction litigation practices for which we are most widely known, our practice includes business law and commercial transactions, real estate, commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, employment and labor law, business succession and wealth preservation planning, estate planning and administration, single and multi employer pension and profit sharing, zoning and land use law and the law of associations and trade organizations.

The lawyers of Jacoby Donner, P.C. represent a cross-section of experience and backgrounds. All principals of the firm practiced at large Philadelphia law firms before joining the practice. Several of the attorneys served on their respective law reviews and moot court boards in law school, while one attorney served as a law clerk to a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and another to a judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court.

Although the firm believes that responsive, high-quality legal services can be provided by lawyers in an environment different from a mega firm of several hundred lawyers, the firm does not believe that smallness is any reason for a lack of impact on the legal community. Accordingly, two attorneys have served as chairs of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Construction Law Committee, and attorneys from the firm have served as chairs of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Real Property Section and State Civil Judicial Procedures Committee, both major components of that bar association with in excess of 300 attorney members each; in addition, one attorney has served as a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Board of Governors. Several of the firm's attorneys are active with the American Bar Association's Forum Committee on the Construction Industry and Litigation Section, and one member serves on the steering committee of that section's Construction Litigation Committee. A member of the firm serves on the Board of Directors of the Design Build Institute of America and another member is active in the Delaware Valley Society of Association Executives.

For a number of years, the firm received honors from the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent program for providing volunteer legal services to the poor on a pro bono basis. In addition, the firm's attorneys regularly write articles in legal publications and teach seminars for attorneys on construction and real estate issues. The firm is active as a member of the Construction Financial Management Association and is an affiliate member of the General Building Contractors Association, the Contractors Association of Eastern Pennsylvania and of the Associated General Contractors of America, the American Institute of Architects, and Lawyers Associated Worldwide (LAW).