Mr. David Korman Esq.
David Korman is a graduate of Boston University (BA, 1975) and Duquesne University School of Law (JD, 1978).
As an active volunteer in several local bar association pro bono programs, he was recruited to lead one of the programs for a few months. That ended up being close to a decade. During that time, he founded or directed various public interest law projects in Allegheny County, including the Indigent Divorce Program, Project Challenge, United Mental Health Legal Services, the Legal Project of the Pittsburgh AIDS Task Force, and the Legal Project for the Deaf and Hearing Impaired.
He then served as a hearing officer in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (Family Division) for ten years, deciding approximately 20,000 domestic relations matters (primarily spousal and child support cases).
Starting in 1987, he became an adjunct professor of Law, Criminal Justice, and Society at the University of Pittsburgh. Additionally, he worked in various capacities (lecturer, consultant, project manager) at the MidAtlantic AIDS Education and Training Center at Pitt’s Graduate School of Public Health from 1991 to his retirement from all his positions at the University of Pittsburgh in December 2022.
He is the author of the text Breaking Them Up Is Not Hard to Do (A Guide to Pennsylvania’s Divorce Code) and the co-author of the textbook That’s Interesting, But What’s the Law in Pennsylvania?
David is now an “Emeritus Attorney” and can only provide pro bono legal services through officially recognized Legal Service Organizations.
In addition to volunteering with Aleph, David volunteers at Jewish Family and Community Services, Neighborhood Legal Services, the American Bar Association’s Free Legal Answers program, and a few other community organizations in non-lawyer roles.
David and his wife, Amy, are the parents of two amazing adults whom they raised from birth: Rachel (Cohen), a special education teacher in Phoenix, AZ, and Eric, a PhD mathematician in Austin, TX.