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David C. Auten has been with the firm since 1963 and was Managing Partner of the Philadelphia office from 1976-1992. He has served on the firm's Management and Executive Committees. Mr. Auten's practice is currently devoted to real estate, banking, health care and international law. His work covers a wide range and includes the representation of banks, insurance companies, credit companies, health care providers, real estate syndicators, developers and tenants. He has considerable background in loans secured by real estate, sale-lease back transactions, property development, work-outs and foreclosures. His transactions have included the acquisition, financing and development of office buildings, warehouses, shopping centers, nursing homes, retirement communities, apartments, hotels and planned residential developments. Mr. Auten has lectured and written frequently on various real estate and financing topics, both commercial and consumer, including mortgage negotiation and drafting, lenders' remedies upon default, usury, leasing and credit and sales. He is a former chairman of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the author of the Bi-annual Survey of Pennsylvania Real Estate Law for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the former author of recent developments for the PBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Newsletter. He originated the frequently cited comprehensive Pennsylvania outlines on interest rates and usury and on mortgage foreclosures. Mr. Auten is regularly consulted by lawyers outside the firm for his advice in these areas. Mr. Auten is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Lender's Counsel Group of the American Land Title Association. He is listed in Who's Who in the World, the Best Lawyers in America and Philadelphia Leaders. Mr. Auten has served on numerous charitable boards, including two terms as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been an Overseer of the School of Arts and Sciences, President of the General Alumni Society, Chairman of Annual Giving, President of the College Alumni Society and President of the Interfraternity Alumni Council. Other boards in the educational field have included St. Peter's School (President), Springside School (Vice President), and Theta Xi National Fraternity (President) and Foundation (President). He was one of the founders and is a Director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the French American Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Auten is a Trustee of the newly created Penn Medicine (formerly University of Pennsylvania Health System) and Chairman of the Presbyterian Medical Center of Philadelphia, and he chaired the Search Committee for the head of the world-renowned Scheie Eye Institute. He is Chairman of the Board of The Presbyterian Foundation for Philadelphia, a foundation with an endowment of nearly $150 million, which controls several urban nursing homes. Other medical or health care boards include Kearsley/Christ Church Hospital (the oldest long-term care residence in the nation where he has served as the Chairman), Del Pres Health Care, Inc., the Courtland Foundation, and The Northeast Community Mental Health Center. In the civic arena, Mr. Auten serves on the Economic Development Committee of Greater Philadelphia First, Inc., the Committee of Seventy and the Philadelphia City Institute. He is a former Rector's Warden of Christ Church in Philadelphia, one of the oldest and most historic churches in the country. He has also served as President of the Union League of Philadelphia and Chairman of its Abraham Lincoln Foundation. A member of the Pennsylvania Bar, Mr. Auten is a 1960 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a 1963 graduate of the Penn Law School, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Mr. Auten and his wife, Suzanne, have two daughters and a grandson and reside in Society Hill. He enjoys traveling, hiking, dominoes and novice golf.
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