Thomas G. Wilkinson Jr., Esquire, to Receive the 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Third Circuit

Thomas Wilkinson Jr. has been selected to receive the prestigious 2023 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Third Circuit. (His wife, Kathleen Wilkinson, will receive the same award.) Chief Judge Michael A. Chagares will present the award in Philadelphia on May 10. Wilkinson is a member of the Philadelphia law firm Cozen O’Connor, where he practices commercial litigation and is a leader of the Legal Profession Services Group. He also chairs the firm’s Professional Responsibility Committee.

“Without a doubt, he is seen as the ‘go-to person’ for any ethical conundrum facing an attorney in this Commonwealth,” writes past president Dale G. Larrimore, Esquire, who nominated Wilkinson on behalf of the Villanova Law J. Willard O’Brien American Inn of Court. “In an increasingly polarized society, Tom helps to bring us together in our understanding of what we need to know to uphold the highest standards of the legal profession and the rule of law.”

Wilkinson is the coeditor of the Pennsylvania Ethics Handbook, whose fifth edition was published in 2017. For more than three decades, he has also edited ethics opinion summaries for Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine.

Wilkinson served as president of the Pennsylvania Bar Association from 2012 to 2013. He led the association’s Committee on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility for nearly a dozen years. From 2008 to 2009, he served as president of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Since 2021, Wilkinson has also been a member of the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association. He served previously as the association’s Pennsylvania state delegate.

Wilkinson earned an undergraduate degree magna cum laude from the University of New Hampshire in 1978. He earned his law degree in 1981 from Villanova University School of Law, where he served as managing editor of the Villanova Law Review. In 2013, he received the Villanova Law Alumni Association Gerald Abraham Award for Service in recognition of his leadership and contributions in helping the law school achieve its goals.

Wilkinson is a member of the Villanova Law J. Willard O’Brien American Inn of Court. In 2013, he and his wife received the Inn’s J. Clayton Undercofler III Esquire ’66 Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes those whose career and service to the Inn exemplify an extraordinary level of leadership, integrity, and dedication to the legal profession and rule of law.

The American Inns of Court, headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, inspires the legal community to advance the rule of law by achieving the highest level of professionalism through example, education, and mentoring. The organization’s membership includes nearly 30,000 federal, state, and local judges; lawyers; law professors; and law students in more than 360 chapters nationwide. More information is available at www.innsofcourt.org.

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