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Attorney Profiles

Alan David Silverman

     Alan David Silverman, Esquire graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1962 with a B.S. degree in accounting.  He went on to attend Temple University Law School and graduated in 1965.  During his tenure at Temple University Law School, he was a member of the Temple Law Review and president of the Temple University Legal Aid Society in addition to working part-time for a small law firm in Philadelphia.

     Upon passing the bar examination in 1965, he proceeded into a private practice as a solo practitioner, later forming the law firm of Gold & Silverman.  Gold & Silverman became a professional corporation in 1973 and changed its name to Gold, Silverman & Goldenberg in 1990.  Since 1990, Alan has been the president and managing officer of the law firm. 

     Alan is admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of United States, Appellate Court of the Third District, Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, and all of the Common Pleas Courts in the State of Pennsylvania.  He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia Bar Association, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.  Alan serves as an arbitrator in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.

Wayne R. Goldenberg

     A partner in the firm since 1993 and the current New Jersey managing partner, Wayne R. Goldenberg concentrates in civil litigation and representing individuals seriously injured as a result of product liability, motor vehicle accidents, medical negligence and premises liability (fall down accidents).  Wayne has successfully tried to verdict cases in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

     After graduation from The George Washington University in 1985 with honors, he was accepted into the National Business Honor Society.  He received his Juris Doctorate from Temple University School of Law in 1988 and went on to practice at one of the larger insurance defense law firms in Philadelphia before becoming an associate at Gold, Silverman & Goldenberg in 1990. 

     Wayne is a member of the American, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations as well as the American, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Bar Associations.  He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and the Supreme, Superior, Commonwealth and Common Pleas Courts in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  He is a member of the compulsory arbitration committee of the Common Pleas of Philadelphia and serves as an arbitrator in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

David F. Binder

     After receiving his B.A. from Geneva College in 1956 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1959, Mr. Binder spent two years clerking for Chief Justice Charles Alvin Jones of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  During his career he has lectured on various topics in the areas of civil litigation and evidence for the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA).  Mr. Binder serves as a judge pro tem for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1991 to 1997.  He has been a course planner and lecturer for the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute.

Mr. Binder is the author of:

• The Hearsay Handbook, published by Shepard's The McGraw Hill Book Company in 1975, Second Edition in 1983, Third Edition in 1991, and Fourth Edition in 2001 (Now published by the West Group as part of the Trial Practices Series).

• Binder on Pennsylvania Evidence, published by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in 1999, Second Edition in 2001, Third Edition in 2003, and Fourth Edition in 2005, and Fifth Edition to be published in 2007.

          Mr. Binder is currently a member of the bars of the United States Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  He is also a faculty member of the Pennsylvania College of the Judiciary, the Philadelphia and American Bar Associations, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the American College of Trial Lawyers.  He served for five years on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania's Civil Procedural Rules Committee.  He was also a member of the Ad Hoc Committee on Evidence appointed by the Supreme Court to draft the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence. He later served seven years on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s standing Committee on Evidence. Mr. Binder is listed in Marquis’ Who’s Who in American Law and Who’s Who in America. He has served on the editorial advisory board for the monthly publication, Verdicts, Settlements and Tactics published by Shephard’s/McGraw-Hill, Inc.