Focused on Protecting Workers’ Rights for more than 25 years
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Paula R. Markowitz

  • Of Counsel

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215-790-0668

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Areas Of Practice

  • Labor Arbitration Trials
  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 1956
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1957
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1958
  • U.S. Supreme Court, 1987

Education

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • Master of Laws - 1953
  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    • L.L.B. - 1952
    • Honors: magna cum laude
    • Honors: Order of Coif
  • Radcliffe College, Cambridge, M.A.
    • B.A. - 1949
    • Honors: magna cum laude
    • Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
    • Major: Russian Language and Literature

Representative Cases

  • Firestone v. Bruch, 489 U.S. 101, 1989, U.S. Supreme
  • Cancellieri v. Bellatlantic, No, 94-Crv-5739, 1995, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Past Employment Positions

  • University of Pennsylvania Legal Writing Instructor, 1953 to 1954
  • American Law Institute Editor, 1954 to 1955

Areas Of Practice

Labor Law
Employment Law
Personal Injury
Workers’ Compensation
Executive Representation