Swartz Campbell LLC is pleased to announce that Josh J.T. Byrne, Esq., a partner with the firm, presented to the Bucks County Bench Bar Association on Legal Malpractice Avoidance on September 22, 2016. Mr. Byrne was pleased to be asked once again to address Bucks County attorneys and judges regarding recent developments in the area of professional liability law in Pennsylvania. Mr. Byrne spoke about recent developments in the law related to emerging technologies, as well as recent court decisions which found Pennsylvania's wrongful use of civil proceedings act (the Dragonetti) act is unconstitutional as applied to attorneys. 

Josh Byrne is a member of the Professional Liability group in Swartz Campbell LLC’s Philadelphia, PA office His clients include Westport Insurance Company, St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Minnesota Lawyer’s Mutual Insurance Company, CNA, Arch Insurance Company and Drexel University College of Medicine. Mr. Byrne is the Vice Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Professional Liability Committee and a Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He speaks throughout Pennsylvania on malpractice avoidance. Mr. Byrne has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer Rising Star,” and has been rated as an AV “Preeminent” lawyer by Martindale-Hubble. 

Mr. Byrne graduated in 1997 with a dual major in Political Science and Japanese Studies from Earlham College in Richmond, IN. After college, Mr. Byrne worked for two years as a coordinator for international relations in Chiba, Japan. He obtained his J.D. in 1997 from Rutgers University, where he earned a Recognition of Excellence in the Domestic Violence Program and was a Moot Court Semi Finalist (Top Ten Brief). Following graduation from law school, Mr. Byrne worked for two years in the honors program of the Department of Justice as a law clerk for administrative law judges. 

Mr. Byrne is a regular contributor to Swartz Campbell’s professional liability blog. Mr. Byrne is also the author of a reoccurring column in The Legal Intelligencer on professional liability issues. In February 2016, Mr. Byrne was appointed by the Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association to serve as a Zone One delegate to the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates. 

Swartz Campbell LLC is a regional insurance defense firm providing legal services and counseling to insurers and self insureds in litigated matters throughout the United States. Focusing its practice primarily on the East Coast, Swartz Campbell LLC attorneys have become leaders in their fields of expertise. Swartz Campbell attorneys are regularly called upon to take over or assist in complex matters involving issues of first impression. Many of the cases which form the basis of Pennsylvania law have their origin in the briefs and argument of Swartz Campbell attorneys. The firm has offices throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with additional regional offices being located in New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia and Delaware. To learn more about the firm, please see www.swartzcampbell.com.