Experience

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  self employed

  • Attorney

    • Apr 2004 - Jun 2019

    represent clients in small claims and circuit court litigation either as plaintiffs or defendants related to landlord/tenant, consumer issues, personal injury, property damage, insurance coverage disputes, and investigate, present and negotiate claims for medical and legal malpractice for settlement; also, handle divorce, custody and placement, and paternity cases in Family Court; Probate Court matters; traffic tickets and criminal matters that are misdemeanor or lower offenses; real estate disputes, including Riparian Rights

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  Margolis Edelstein

  • Senior Associate

    • Sep 2002 - Mar 2004

    Private/outside insurance defense firm in Phila. for which I handled pleadings, discovery, investigation of legal and medical malpractice cases, including med mal fatalities.Left to relocate back to hometown, Milwaukee, after mother died 9/2003 and inherited property there.

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  OneBeacon Insurance

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Senior Trial Attorney-Law Office of Richard R. High

    • Jun 2001 - Dec 2001
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    CGU Ins. was sold to White Mountains who formed OneBeacon Insurance in Boston, MA. My duties were identical to those described in the description for General Accident through White Mountains' sale of the business to Liberty Mutual Ins. in September 2001 resulting in me being downsized effective the end of December 2001.

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  CGU Insurance

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Senior Trial Attorney-Law Office of Richard R. High

    • Jul 1998 - Jun 2001
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    General Accident and Commercial Union Ins. Cos. merged. See description my duties at General Accident as they were the same.

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  General Accident Insurance

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Senior Trial Attorney-Law Office of Ralph L. Herbst, III

    • Feb 1991 - Jul 1998
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    Ins. defense attorney in SE PA, with my office in the Curtis Bldg. across 6th St. in Phila. from Independence Hall, avg 120 cases currently in litigation consisting of Workers Comp, general liability, business liability, products liability, some discrimination cases and some malpractice cases, and handled them without assistance from pleadings to dismissal, settlement or verdict. I also handled serious liability and damage cases, including fatalities.For the last 8 years of this employment, I was also coverage counsel representing the company in suits brought by its insureds and provided coverage opinions to claims, Home Office and VP of Legal.Started as Staff Attorney and was given a merit promotion 7 months later to Trial Attorney, and 5-1/2 yrs. later promoted to Senior Trial Attorney.

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  Liberty Mutual Insurance

  • Greater Philadelphia Area

  • Staff Attorney-Thompson & Pennell

    • Jul 1988 - Jan 1991
    • Greater Philadelphia Area

    Insurance defense attorney handling small claims, Workers Comp, product liability cases from pleadings to verdicts/decisions.