Swartz Campbell LLC is pleased to announce that Josh J.T. Byrne, Esq., a partner with the firm, has been appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Professional Liability Committee. He will begin his new role effective May 12, 2018.

Josh J.T. Byrne is a member of the Professional Liability group in Swartz Campbell LLC’s Philadelphia, PA office.Mr. Byrne is 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 Lawyers Rising Star,” and has an AV rating “Preeminent” lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell. He is 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.

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.

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.