Farhan S. Ali
Nine years at the bar — the newest listing on this page — and one of only two here whose published number matches his bar record. His firm's site returns 403 Forbidden to us, so nothing on it is checked here; only the Disciplinary Board record is.
The bar record
We read Farhan S. Ali in the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania’s attorney search. Every row below is the Board’s — this register carries no self-reported practice block at all.
Eleven registers, and this is the first that does not ask the question. Texas prints “No Public Disciplinary History”. Florida gives ten years. Washington shows a blank and warns its search may miss things. New York answers and then sends you to the Appellate Division. California prints a docket and links the court file. Massachusetts says “None” or “Yes” and links the decision. Pennsylvania’s attorney detail has no disciplinary field on it at all. So this listing carries a dash — the third distinct reason for a dash on this site, and the only one that is about the shape of the form rather than the content of the answer. The Board publishes discipline elsewhere; we have not searched those resources, and until we do, no green tick belongs here.
What it does publish is unique in the other direction. Where Washington and Massachusetts record professional liability insurance as a yes-or-no, Pennsylvania prints a sentence in the lawyer’s own voice, with a figure and a rule citation: “I maintain… at least $100,000 per occurrence and $300,000 in the aggregate… as set forth in Rule of Professional Conduct 1.4(c).” It is still a self-report. But of eleven registers, this is the only one that quotes the lawyer speaking rather than summarising them into a checkbox. It also gives a county and a disciplinary district, administrative geography no other register on this site publishes.
What the record shows
galfandberger.com returns 403 Forbidden to us, from curl under a browser user agent. We could not read a page of it. Everything below this line is his own account as supplied, not something we have seen, and none of it carries a Verified tag.Verified
His register phone, (215) 665-1600, matches the number published for the firm. Only he and Michael-John Goodnow can say that among these fifteen.Verified
Admitted 28 October 2016, he is the newest listing in Philadelphia by seven years. The Board’s record carries no law school, no practice areas and no languages, so nothing about what he does is register-checked — a limit that applies to all fifteen here equally.Verified
What the firm says
He says he is a Partner at Galfand Berger, joined in 2016, and works on automobile, premises and construction injury cases, with cases taken to verdict in trials and arbitrations.Reported
He says he was part of a team that won a unanimous 7-0 decision in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Bourgeois v. Snow Time, Inc. That is a reported decision and a checkable claim; we have not read it.Reported
He says he is President of the Board of Directors of HIAS Pennsylvania, a legal-aid nonprofit for refugees and asylum seekers, is fluent in Hindi and Malayalam, and volunteers as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.Reported
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What we haven’t checked
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