Henry A. Gladstone

Retired Senior Counsel

Henry A. Gladstone focused on general and corporate matters, including a wide range of counseling and transactions, acquisitions and dispositions, restructurings and debt and equity financings for privately owned and publicly held companies and professional firms. He is particularly experienced in the representation of owners and operators of nursing care facilities in multiple jurisdictions, and in the organization and governance of law firms, having represented numerous law firms and having served as general counsel to Cozen O'Connor for the last 10 years.   

Hank has served on the board of directors of several publicly held companies and is the administrative trustee of a substantial private charitable foundation. He has been actively involved in and has served on community charitable and service organizations, and currently serves on the board of Judith Creed Homes for Adult Independence, and is an active fundraiser for Autism Speaks. 

Hank is a 1961 Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the College of Arts and Sciences of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law in 1964, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and case editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

News

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys in its Best Lawyers in America 2025 Edition

August 15, 2024

Best Lawyers selected 242 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America.

Best Lawyers Honors More Than 200 Cozen O'Connor Attorneys to its Best Lawyers in America 2024 Edition

August 17, 2023

Best Lawyers selected 232 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s U.S. offices for inclusion in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

More Than 200 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch

August 22, 2022

210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 24 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2023 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

More Than 205 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 19, 2021

Best Lawyers selected 210 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.

200 Cozen O’Connor Attorneys Named Best Lawyers and Ones to Watch By The Best Lawyers In America

August 20, 2020

Best Lawyers selected 200 Cozen O’Connor lawyers from 23 of the firm’s nationwide offices for inclusion in the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America© (Copyright 2020 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, LL.B., magna cum laude, 1964
  • University of Pennsylvania, A.B., 1961

Awards & Honors

Best Lawyers in America, 1991-2023

  • Pennsylvania