A graduate of Villanova University, Joseph De Ritis did doctoral work in statistics and psychometrics at the University of Pennsylvania before taking his J.D. from the Dickinson Law School, where he was research editor of the Dickinson Law Review. He received his LL.M. in trial advocacy and litigation science from the Temple University Law School. Mr. De Ritis was a public defender before joining the prestigious litigation firm of Wiesmeth and Hardy, P.C., in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. He is now in private practice in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.