

William Harold Stassen, Esq.
Philadelphia Office
Bar Admissions: (1996 ) NJ, (1996 ) PA, (1999) D.C.
Partner, Litigation Department
Bill is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Fox Rothschild LLP and is a member of the firm's Condemnation Group. He has a national practice representing clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Florida and Idaho. Bill is a co-author of the annual supplements to the Pennsylvania treatise on condemnation law, Snitzer on Eminent Domain Law.
Bill represents landowners (condemnees) and condemning authorities (condemnors) at the trial and appellate court levels in cases involving the determination whether the condemnor has the right and power to take privately- and/or publicly-owned property. He has also tried valuation cases for landowners, obtaining jury verdicts that exceed the estimated just compensation offered by the condemning authority. In addition, Bill has secured a compensation award for a landowner that exceeded by two-fold, the highest valuation provided in any completed appraisal in the case.
Bill has been qualified to testify as a real estate and condemnation expert and has testified in hearings regarding property rights in eminent domain cases.
Bill has taught Legal Research and Writing as an appointed adjunct Professor for three years at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Support Center for Child Advocates, an organization that provides free legal and social services to children in crisis.
Prior to joining Fox Rothschild, Bill worked for the Office of the Attorney General in Kentucky as an investigator and victims advocate and managed a cattle operation in southern Indiana.
Bill graduated from Boston College Law School in 1996, where he was a member of the editorial staff of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review. He was the 1995 Boston College Law School Mock Trial Competition winner and was selected for the law school's 1995-96 National Mock Trial Team. Bill was awarded his undergraduate degree from Earlham College in 1987. Following graduation, he was a nationally selected Herbert Scoville Fellow in Washington D.C.
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