As of June 2024[update], he is an attorney at the law firm of Blank Rome LLP, where he serves as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner.
[2] He is the great-great-great-grandson of Lewis Woodson, believed to be the grandson of Thomas Jefferson and his alleged mixed-raced slave, Sally Hemings, with DNA evidence in 1998 suggesting this was true.
[2] President Bush chose to elevate Lewis again when he nominated him for a newly created seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit on September 17, 1992.
[2] Lewis is currently a senior counsel in the Business Litigation practice group at Blank Rome LLP where he serves as a mediator, arbitrator, settlement counselor, and trial and appellate practitioner.
Lewis is a member of the American Law Institute, an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, a fellow of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, an active member of the Pennsylvania Interbranch Commission for Gender, Racial, and Ethnic Fairness, and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown Supreme Court Institute.