Scott P. Sigman, Esq.'s Page

Account Type:

Individual

Sex:

Male

Age:

35

Zip Code: (5 Digits)

19102

Neighborhood:

Center City Philadelphia

Do You Have A Website:

http://www.sigmanandrochlin.com

Occupation:

Attorney

Companies:

Sigman & Rochlin, LLC

Schools:

Temple University School of Law; The American University

Affiliations:

Currently, Mr. Sigman serves as immediate past Chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, as Treasurer of the Lawyers Club of Philadelphia, as a Zone Chair for the Young Lawyers Division of the Pennsylvania Bar, as Vice President of the Weed & Seed Board, and as an Executive Board Member of the Temple Law Alumni Association.

About Me:

Mr. Sigman concentrates his practice in the areas of complex civil and criminal litigation, catastrophic injuries, election law, defamation, fraud, civil RICO, drug forfeiture, and white-collar criminal defense. He has been selected as a "Pennsylvania Rising Star Super Lawyer" by Philadelphia Magazine for 2005 through 2008 and as a “2006 Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer.

Prior to founding Sigman & Rochlin, LLC, Sigman was an attorney at Bochetto & Lentz, P.C. Prior to that, Mr. Sigman was an Assistant District Attorney with the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office where he was assigned to the Narcotics Division (in 1999) first as a Law Intern and then as a Prosecutor. Mr. Sigman was specially assigned to criminally prosecute Philadelphia’s most serious drug offenders from pre-arrest to post-conviction, litigate the forfeiture of the offender’s real estate through a quasi-civil forfeiture hearing and litigate civil actions against some of Philadelphia’s worst nuisance bars. Mr. Sigman was also the Weed & Seed Prosecutor for North Philadelphia. In 2004, Mr. Sigman prosecuted Pennsylvania’s very first Weapons of Mass Destruction case. During his tenure as an Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Sigman tried hundreds of cases in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Mr. Sigman is admitted to Practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, the United States District Courts of New Jersey, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Northern District of New York, and Northern District of Ohio, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third and Sixth Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Sigman is also a member of the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and American Bar Associations, Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Temple Law Alumni Association, Temple American Inn of Court, Lawyers Club of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Society, Louis D. Brandeis Law Society, Justinian Society, Union League of Philadelphia, World Affairs Council, Friends of the American Red Cross, Pen & Pencil Club, Pyramid Club, Variety Club, Vesper Club, District Attorneys’ Alumni Association, and National and Pennsylvania District Attorneys Associations.

Mr. Sigman has served as a CLE lecturer on the use of technology in the courtroom, criminal law and procedure, election law, and prosecuting felony drug cases for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association, Pennsylvania District Attorneys Institute, National Black Prosecutors Association, and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. Mr. Sigman is also a regularly featured guest on Eleanor Dezzi’s “Voices of the Village” on 900 AM WURD, ESPN Radio 920 AM, and “It’s Your Call with Lynn Doyle” on CN8 as a criminal law correspondent.

Currently, Mr. Sigman serves as immediate past Chair of the Young Lawyers Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association, as Treasurer of the Lawyers Club of Philadelphia, as a Zone Chair for the Young Lawyers Division of the Pennsylvania Bar, as Vice President of the Weed & Seed Board, and as an Executive Board Member of the Temple Law Alumni Association.

Kids:

None

Interested in Meeting People for:

Networking, Professional Development