Dianne Nast

Dianne M. Nast is a magna cum laude graduate of Rutgers University School of Law. From 1976 to 1995, she was a senior shareholder with the Philadelphia law firm of Kohn, Nast & Graf, P.C. (now Kohn, Swift & Graf, P.C.), and then a senior shareholder at RodaNast, P.C.
from 1995 to 2012. She is currently the founder and senior member of NastLaw LLC in Philadelphia.

Ms Nast holds an AV Martindale-Hubbell rating and has been selected to be listed in each edition of The Best Lawyers in America (Antitrust Law, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Actions, Personal Injury Lawyer) since 2003. The National Law Journal has selected Ms Nast as one of the nation’s top fifty women litigators. Ms Nast was also selected by Philadelphia Magazine as one of Philadelphia’s Best Complex Litigation Lawyers. She has been named as one of Pennsylvania’s Top Fifty Women Lawyers. She appears in numerous Who’s Who publications.

In April, 2015, the American Bar Association Tort and Trial Practice Section awarded Ms Nast its Pursuit of Justice Award. In June 2016, Ms Nast was selected by The Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania’s leading legal newspaper, to receive its Life Time Achievement
Award. In 2017, The Legal also named Ms Nast a recipient of its Professional Excellence Award.

Ms Nast served as a Director of the Federal Judicial Center Foundation for eleven years, from 1991 to 2002. In 1998, then Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist named Ms Nast Chair of the Board of Directors of the Foundation.

Judge Edward Becker, then Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed Ms Nast to serve as a member of the fifteen-member Third Circuit Task Force on Selection of Class Counsel. The Task Force issued a report, Selection of Class Counsel, 208 F.R.D. 340 (2002), cited over 100 times in court opinions. Ms Nast was also selected by The American Law Institute to serve on the ALI’s Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.

Ms Nast chaired the Lawyers Advisory Committee for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She served for eight years on the Third Circuit’s Committee on Revision of Judicial Conduct Rules of the Judicial Council, and on the Judicial Conference Long Range Planning Committee.

Ms Nast is member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. Ms Nast is an elected member of the American Law Institute, a member of the Board of Directors of the Sedona Conference, and a member of the American Antitrust Institute and the Public Justice Foundation.

She has been named to Chambers USA for her work in product liability litigation.

Ms Nast has been named as Lead Counsel or an Executive Committee member in scores of Antitrust and Products Liability cases, most recently as co-Lead Counsel in the Generic Drug Antitrust Litigation, MDL 2724, currently one of the largest MDLs in the United States.