Crystal H. Clark
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Adjunct Professor of Law Location: Carlisle General Counsel |
About Clark
Crystal H. Clark currently serves as General Counsel for Pennsylvania’s Senate Republican Caucus. As General Counsel, Clark is responsible for all of the day-to-day legal needs of the Caucus, responsible for overseeing Caucus contracting, employment, policies and procedures, and risk management. She also advises on unique areas of law specific to government entities, including the Pennsylvania Ethics Act, Right to Know Law, Sunshine Act, and Senate Rules and parliamentary procedure. Clark also oversees all litigation matters involving the Caucus and its members in their official capacity. In consultation with Caucus counsel for the other House and Senate Caucuses, Clark is also responsible for litigation matters involving the Senate and General Assembly. As a senior member of staff within the Caucus, Clark works closely with the President Pro Tempore, Majority Leader, and Caucus members on a variety of policy and legislative matters.
Prior to joining the Senate, Clark served as Of Counsel at McNees, Wallace & Nurick where she regularly represented municipal and county governments on employment and governmental legal issues, including serving as the contracted solicitor for the County Commissioners Association of Pennsylvania. In that capacity, she drew on her experience as the in-house County Solicitor for the County of Lancaster, which pre-dated her time with McNees, as well as her early legal experience as an associate, and later a partner, at Thomas, Thomas & Hafer, LLP.
Clark received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 2000 and a J.D. from Penn State Dickinson Law in 2003.
Clark is an accomplished speaker, regularly appearing before industry groups and a variety of governmental associations to speak on the Right to Know Law, Sunshine Act, Pennsylvania Ethics Act, and a variety of employment law-related topics. Clark is admitted to practice for the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Penn State Dickinson Law and Penn State Law are reunifying to operate as Penn State University’s single law school, which will be known as Penn State Dickinson Law. While ABA approval for the reunification is pending, both schools are currently fully accredited. We submitted an application for acquiescence to operate as a single law school in July 2024 and plan to enroll a unified class in Fall 2025. Once reunification is complete, the separate faculties of each school will be members of the reunified Penn State Dickinson Law faculty.