PRACTICE FOCUS
Anthony Potter is a Principal attorney and the Chair of Offit Kurman's Construction Law Practice Group and is a resident of the firm’s Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Office. Anthony focuses his practice on counseling architects, engineers, design-build entities, owners and other businesses involved in construction contracting, commercial and construction litigation, administrative law and professional licensing matters. He also focuses his practice on state administrative law and government contracting.
Anthony serves as general counsel to AIA Pennsylvania, special counsel to the American Council of Engineering Companies of Pennsylvania, Counsel to the Structural Engineers Association of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Penn State Harrisburg Advisory Board for the Structural Design & Construction Engineering Technology and Civil Engineering Programs. He frequently provides seminars and lectures at national, regional and statewide forums on topics including construction contract documents, construction delivery methods, design and construction errors and omissions, risk management, construction and project management, construction litigation and design professional ethics.
Anthony has represented clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings before the American Arbitration Association and before administrative agencies, including matters before the Pennsylvania Department of General Services, Department of Labor & Industry, PennDOT, and Department of State Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs. He has also represented clients before numerous courts.
Before joining Offit Kurman, Anthony was a shareholder at a boutique construction law firm managing the Harrisburg office. He was Assistant General Counsel to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge. As an assistant general counsel, he was responsible for representing the Governor and cabinet level officials in federal and state court, providing legal counsel to department heads, was lead counsel on public finance transactions and oversaw the legal work of attorneys from a variety of state administrative agencies including the Department of Labor & Industry. His experience in the Pennsylvania Governor’s Office of General Counsel provides him a unique perspective in counseling clients on public contracts and projects.
As a Central Pennsylvania native, Anthony received his law degree with honors from Widener University School of Law located in Harrisburg in 1995 and his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Millersville University in 1991. He is a member of the Pennsylvania, Dauphin County, Federal and American Bar Associations.
Anthony is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, Maryland and before the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.