Former Gibbons P.C. attorney Joseph Cincotta became president of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel this summer, and has since been working to raise the civil defense advocacy group’s profile throughout the courts and broader community.

Cincotta began his career clerking for Philadelphia Judge James Stern before spending five years in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office beginning in 1980. He stopped practicing in late 2015 after spending more than 30 years handling a variety of cases, including toxic torts and commercial litigation.