He was Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2005. He has been active in LGBT rights as a member of the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, a board member and treasurer of Lambda Legal, and a member of Mazzoni Center’s legal advisory board. He has presented amicus briefs on LGBT and transgender equality issues to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and he was the first lawyer to represent a plaintiff in an AIDS/HIV discrimination case before a jury in Pennsylvania.