Alan Kessler

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Alan C. Kessler practices in commercial litigation with a focus on class actions and other complex litigation, government relations and general counseling. Kessler represents real estate developers, banks, airlines, healthcare institutions and hospitals and alternative energy companies.

Kessler has worked with a wide range of clients, including small closely-held entrepreneurial companies, closely-held public companies, Fortune 100 companies, real estate developers, real estate management companies, healthcare providers, an entertainment industry company, a major airline, IT company, charter schools, franchisors, franchisees, electronics companies, consumer product companies, municipal authorities, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia, Philadelphia Authorities and other governmental agencies.

Kessler’s public service activities include serving as a member of the Clinton/Gore Presidential Transition Team in 1991-1992; as a presidential appointee by President Clinton as the vice chair of the Presidential/Congressional Commission on Risk Assessment and Risk Management (1994-1998); and as a presidential appointee by President Clinton, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, to the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service. He was elected chair of the USPS Board of Governors in 2008, having served as vice chair since 2005, and President Obama appointed him to a second term, with the Senate confirming, in 2009. He also has served as finance vice chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), as a national finance vice chair of Gore 2000, Vice President Gore’s presidential campaign, and as a national finance chair of Hillary for President in 2008 and 2016, and a member of President Biden’s National Finance Committee.

On a regional level, Kessler was a Township Commissioner for Lower Merion Township and a member of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission. Kessler previously acted as co-chair of the Mayor’s Transition Committee for Mayor Edward Rendell (1992) and as a member of the Executive Committee of Philadelphia 2000. He served as a member and co-chair of Governor Rendell’s and Governor Shapiro’s transition teams. He was a member of the Electoral College for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2000. Additionally, he is or was a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation, Drexel University, Penn Medicine Campaign Cabinet, Central Philadelphia Development Corporation, where he serves as a member of the Executive Committee, World Affairs Council, Economy League of Greater Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority, a state fiscal oversight board for the City of Philadelphia, where he serves as Vice Chair. He was also appointed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as chair of the Supreme Court’s Continuing Legal Education Board. Kessler also was appointed by Governor Rendell as finance chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. Currently, Kessler is a member of the Executive Committee of the Mayor’s (Philadelphia) Business Roundtable.

Kessler is a graduate, with honors, of the University of Maryland School of Law and a graduate, with honors, of the University of Delaware.

Bio provided by Alan Kessler.