Paul D. Edger, managing attorney of the Carlisle, Chambersburg and Gettysburg offices of MidPenn Legal Services, is chair-elect of the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) Young Lawyers Division (YLD).
Edger has been involved in the PBA YLD for over a decade. He served for two years as the YLD treasurer and for three years as a co-chair of the YLD’s Zone Three. For the past year, he has served on behalf of the YLD in the PBA House of Delegates, the association’s policymaking body. Edger has been a juror, attorney advisory and presiding judge in the PBA Statewide High School Mock Trial Competition, which is coordinated by the YLD. He has offered free legal services as part of Wills for Heroes, a program co-sponsored by the YLD that provides free wills and estate planning documents to first responders and military veterans.
For the past six years, Edger has been a voting delegate in the PBA House of Delegates. Since 2013, Edger has been a member of the PBA Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, and, since 2015, Edger has been a member of the PBA Legal Services to the Public Committee.
Also active in the local organized bar, Edger served as the 2014-2016 chair of the Cumberland County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, and currently serves on the Cumberland County Bar Association Board of Directors.
Edger worked for two years at the Law Office of Peter Russo in Mechanicsburg before joining MidPenn Legal Services as a staff attorney in early 2014. MidPenn is a nonprofit, public-interest law firm dedicated to providing equal access to justice and civil legal services to low-income residents and survivors of domestic violence in 18 counties in central Pennsylvania. In 2015, Edger became the managing attorney of the MidPenn’s Carlisle office, and, in July 2019, he also became the managing attorney of the Chambersburg and Gettysburg offices. He currently oversees all administrative duties associated with MidPenn services provided in Adams, Cumberland, Franklin and Fulton counties.
For nearly three years, Edger has been an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Widener University Commonwealth Law School.
In addition to his J.D. from Widener Law Commonwealth, Edger holds a B.A. in political philosophy and legal studies from Elizabethtown College.