Harper Seldin focuses his practice on business litigation, commercial disputes, and complex litigation. He has significant experience representing large public and privately held corporations in contract disputes in federal and state court. His substantial pro bono work includes civil rights litigation in federal court on behalf of transgender public school students.
Harper is a Buchholz Fellow for the Committee of Seventy, an independent and nonpartisan advocate for better government in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. He is also a member of the Toll Public Interest Center Advisory Board and the Law Alumni Society Board of Managers at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is actively involved with the Young Friends of YSRP, a young professionals group that supports the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project’s work for juvenile justice and policy reform. His published legal scholarship focuses on child welfare.
Harper joined Cozen O’Connor in 2016 after a two-year federal clerkship with the Honorable Stewart Dalzell (ret.) in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he served as an articles editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. He received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in American history from the University of Pennsylvania.