Patricia V. Pierce
Work in Weir Greenblatt Pierce LLP
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 48 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Law
1339 Chestnut Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19107
About Patricia V. Pierce
Practice Areas
- Civil Rights
- Criminal Law
Education
- Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey, 1976J.D.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: Rutgers Community Scholar
- Honors: High Honors
- Rutgers University, Camden, 1973B.A.
- Honors: magna cum laude
- Honors: High Honors
Classes and Seminars
- “ERISA- Let There Be No Right Without A Remedy: Maximizing Recovery Under Section 510.”, Speaker and Moderator, 2011 Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association
- “Retaliation Litigation Hot Spots”, Speaker, 2011 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute
- “Choosing Your Cases Wisely”, Speaker, 2011 Upper Midwest Employment Law Institute
- “The Discovery Exchange: An interactive exchange designed to engage the panelist and audience in a fast-paced discussion about various discovery issues that arise in employment cases”, Speaker, 2010 Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association, - 2010
- “You get What You Pay For: How to Successfully Challenge Releases Under the OWBPA in the Post-Guidant Era”, Speaker, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 16th Annual Employment Law Institute, - 2010
- “Employment Law Update 2006,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, - 2006
- Adjunct Professor, Temple School of Law, 1983 - 1993
- Speaker, 2010, on a panel for the litigation track concerning the use of jury research, focus groups, shadow juries for litigation and ADR techniques
- Speaker and Moderator, 2012 Annual Convention of the National Employment Lawyers Association – Using Focus Groups Early and Often on a Tight Budget
- Moderator/ 2014 Annual Convention of the NELA – Effective Strategies for Drafting Executive Employment Contracts
- Course Planner-Speaker 2014-Al: ABA Employment Law Essentials and Best Practices
- 2015: PACDL White Collar Panel – “Corporate Criminal Investigations, Employment Law and Whistleblowers: Navigating Your Client to a Safe Harbor”
- 2015: Course Planner-Speaker ALI-ABA Employment Law Essentials and Best Practices
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 1975
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1976
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1982
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1988
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1990
- U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1997
- California, 1995
- Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1997
- New Jersey, 1997
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court of California
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Tennessee
- U.S. District Court District of Minnesota
- U.S. District Court Northern District of California
Other Affiliations
- Defender Association of Philadelphia, 1996 - 2011 (Director)
- Convention Committee of the National Employment Lawyers Association
- Women Organized Against Rape (Past President)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- New Jersey Bar Association
- California Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- National Employment Lawyers Association, Class Action and Sexual Harassment Committees
- Disability Law Project (former Board of Directors)
- American College of Labor & Employment Attorneys, 2010 - Present (Fellow)
- Temple Inns of Court, 1989 - 1993 (Master)
- Juvenile Law Center, 2008 - 2010 (Director)
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court (Senior Disciplinary Committee Member )
Past Positions
- Santa Clara University School of Law, Visiting Professor, 1994 - 1996
- Law Offices of Patricia V. Pierce, Principal, 1984 - 1994
- Rudley, Bowe & Crummett, Associate, 1981 - 1983
- Defender Association of Philadelphia, Assistant Defender, 1976 - 1981
- Temple’s Beasley School of Law, Adjunct Professor
Articles
Published Works
- “It’s Not Just White Men Anymore,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 14th Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, 2008
- “Trial Presentation Strategies That Work,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 14th Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, 2008
- “Mixed Motive Cases – Finding the Line,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 13th Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, 2007
- “Update and Recent Developments in the Law of Workplace Harassment,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 12th Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, 2006
- “Preparing a Case on a Shoestring Budget: Your Friend Hal,” We the People: Reclaiming the Justice System, National Employment Lawyers Association, 2005
- “The Jury Charge in Sexual Harassment Cases – or You Can’t Always Get What You Want,”, Pennsylvania Bar Institute 11th Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, 2005
- “The Santa Clara Experiment: A New Fee-Generating Model for Clinical Legal Education,”, Clinical Law Review, New York University School of Law/Association of American Law Schools/Clinical Legal Education Association, 1997
- 2015 “Corporate Criminal Investigations, Employment Law and Whistleblowers”, with Lori Mach Ortiz
- 2015 “Ethical Issues Involving ESI In Employment Law”, with Lori Mach Ortiz
- 2014 “Avoiding Potential Ethical Minefields”, Ali-ABA Employment Law Best Practices
- 2014 “Retaliation Claims After Vance and Nassar”, Ali-ABA Employment Law Best Practices
Office Info
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- Civil Rights, Criminal Law
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