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Managing Partner
PRACTICE AREAS
Workers’ compensation and occupational disease.
More than 30 years of experience, including litigation before the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeals.
EDUCATION
Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, (J.D. 1969)
Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania (B.A. 1963)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Recognized as a “PA Super Lawyer” in the area of workers’ compensation by Philadelphia Magazine, 2005-current.
Admitted to Pennsylvania Supreme Court; United States District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania; United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; United States Supreme Court.
Member, American Bar Association; Pennsylvania Bar Association; Wilkes-Barre Law Library Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; American Trial Lawyers Association.
Chairman, Workers’ Compensation Committee, American Bar Association, General Practice Section, 1993-97; vice chairman, 1985-1993.
Council member, Workers Compensation Section, Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2004 – present.
Member, National Association Workplace Injury Litigation Group, 1997-- present.
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Workers’ Compensation Law Advisory Committee, 1999 – present.
Member, Investigative Division, Pennsylvania Judicial Evaluation Commission, 1996-2008.
Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Workers’ Compensation Section, Medicare Committee.
Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association.
Author: “Rights of a Claimant Who Returns to Work with a Functional Impairment – Lay Off for Economic Reasons vs. Termination for Cause,” 19 Pennsylvania Law Weekly 1141 (1996); “Litigation State Workers’ Compensation Claims,” Law Notes American Bar Association – The Complete Lawyer, Volume 14, No. 3 (1997); “Employer Funded Job Referrals – Trends in the Law, Workers’ Compensation,” 21 Pennsylvania Law Weekly, No. 435 (1998); “Do Employer-Funded Jobs Constitute ‘Productive Employment?’” Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Workers’ Compensation Newsletter, Issue 3, (1998).
Lecturer on workers’ compensation matters on behalf of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.
Listed in “Who’s Who in American Law.”