About Daniel E.
Daniel E. Cummins built a career that began in the classroom and moved steadily into courtrooms and editorial pages. He completed his undergraduate work at Villanova University in 1986, majoring in English with a minor in history. He earned his J.D. from Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law in 1990 and later expanded his studies through a study-abroad program at the University of London’s Faculty of Laws in 1993.
His early legal training included a clerkship to President Judge Harold A. Thomson, Jr. at the Pike County Court of Common Pleas in Milford in 1995. That experience led to associate positions and early courtroom work. He served as an associate at Bialkowski & Savitsky in 1997 and moved into partnership by 1999 at Foley, Cognetti, Comerford, Cimini & Cummins. Those years established him as a trial lawyer practicing in Pennsylvania courts.
Parallel to practice, Cummins developed a steady presence as a writer and teacher. He began contributing columns to The Pennsylvania Law Weekly in the mid-1990s, writing about civil litigation topics. He later wrote an annual supplement to the Pennsylvania Trial Advocacy Handbook published in 2010 and launched a blog, TortTalk.com, in 2009. In 2001 he served as an adjunct instructor in Penn State’s paralegal program, bringing classroom perspective back into practice.
Over time his professional affiliations multiplied. He holds memberships in the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Pike County Bar Association, Lackawanna Bar Association and Monroe County Bar Association. He joined the Pennsylvania Defense Institute in 2007 and served on its board until 2015. He has been involved with regional trial lawyer groups as an officer, including roles as secretary and treasurer in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association between 2008 and 2014. He is also a member of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance and, earlier, the Defense Research Institute.
In 2020 he became managing partner at Cummins Law. That position formalized years of trial work, editorial output and academic involvement into a practice he leads today. His work over three decades reflects a mix of courtroom litigation, legal writing and professional leadership.
He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and currently manages his practice at Cummins Law, handling civil litigation and defense matters.
