Angelo graduated from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia PA, with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science, Latin American Studies and Economics in 1975 and graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1978. After graduation, Angelo worked as a Compliance Officer for United National Bank in Washington, DC and Chase Manhattan Bank in New York, and in the Business and Finance and Real Estate Departments at Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll in Philadelphia. In 1989, he began his private practice. His practice is focused primarily on criminal defense and civil rights litigation, and Probate, Estates, personal injury and real estate law and litigation. He has extensive trial experience and has obtained both acquittals in criminal matters and substantial settlements for his clients whose civil rights have been violated. Angelo is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. Tax Court, and the Supreme Court of the United States. His professional affiliations include and have included the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Barristers Association of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He is a Certified Arbitrator with the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, the NASD, the NYSE and the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas, as well as the U.S District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He also serves as a redress attorney for the Pennsylvania NAACP.

Gerald S. Stanshine is a nationally recognized trial attorney who focuses on criminal defense, civil rights, and personal injury. He has successfully represented numerous clients in high profile matters. Mr. Stanshine is well known to clients, opposing counsel and judges for tenacious and skillful representation of his clients. He has been a guest faculty member with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, and has testified before and counseled various Pennsylvania governmental agencies and commissions. He has also appeared on WPVI’s, (channel 6), Action News: Issues and Answers. For almost two decades, Mr. Stanshine was counsel, and then lead counsel to the Fraternal Order of Police in Philadelphia for police officers in Internal Affairs investigations and Disciplinary Hearings. He has been selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for six consecutive years; to the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; to the American Society of Legal Advocates as a Top 100 Criminal Defense Lawyer in Pa. for 2013, 2014, and 2015; named as one of the Top 10 Criminal Defense Attorneys in Pennsylvania by the National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys; selected as a Member of the Nation’s Top One Percent by The National Association of Distinguished Counsel; selected to Philadelphia’s Top Rated Lawyers in 2013, 2014, and 2015; and has been consistently rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell, (its highest rating), every year since 2000.