Charles “Chip” Becker is an attorney at Kline & Specter, P.C., where he has primary responsibility for the firm’s post-trial and appellate practice.  He also works with firm lawyers on numerous issues as they arise in the firm’s cases, including case and claim selection, venue and dispositive motions, in limine motions, trial strategy, and settlement.  

Mr. Becker is a fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.  He serves on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Commission on Judicial Independence, which promotes understanding about the role of the courts in civil society. 

He currently is the president of the Third Circuit Bar Association, a member of the American Law Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Courts and Community Committee of the Judicial Council of the Third Circuit. 

He previously served three terms on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Appellate Courts Procedural Rules Committee and taught for five years on the adjunct faculty at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.  He also chaired the Appellate Courts Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.  A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, Mr. Becker served as a law clerk for the Honorable Sandra L. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.