Attorney Profiles

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND CERTIFICATIONS

Admitted to Pennsylvania Bar - April 1976.
Admitted to Eastern District United States District Court - July 1980.
Admitted to United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit - October 1980.

Managing Partner, Steiner, Segal, Muller & Donan, 1980 to present, private legal practice. Practice primarily in areas of employment and worker's compensation law. Responsible for all management and administrative decisions, interviewing new clients, legal research, and trial of active worker's compensation cases.

Adjunct Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law, Graduate Legal Studies Division, teach course titled Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation Practice and Procedure; a comprehensive 13 week course which outlines the worker's compensation law in Pennsylvania and teaches lawyers how to practice such law; 1991 to 2001.

Special Assistant Attorney General, Pennsylvania Sate Workmen's Insurance Fund, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. October 1975 to September 1979. Preparation of worker's compensation defense litigation, investigation of third-party claims, preparation of third-party legal pleading, special project research at the direction of general counsel for the State Fund, rendering of legal opinions to field representatives under direct supervision of general counsel for the State Fund, Administration of District Office Legal Division and assignment of cases to others under my supervision. Acted temporarily as Chief Counsel to the State Workmen's Insurance Fund, May 1979 to September 1979.

Areas of Practice

• Employment and Worker's Compensation Law

Litigation Percentage

• 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1976
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1980

Education

• Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1980
  LL.M.
  
  
• Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware, August, 1975
  J.D.
  
  
• Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January, 1970
  B.S.B.A.
  Major: Finance and Management
  
  

Published Works

• Co-Editor, Barbieri Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation and Occupational Disease, Bisel Publishing Company, 1999 to 2001

Representative Cases

• Aetna Electroplating Co. v. W.C.A.B. (Steen), 542 A.2d 189 (Pa.Cmwlth. 1988)
• ADIA Personnel Agency v. W.C.A.B. (Coleman), 586 A.2d 507 (Pa.Cmwlth. 1991)

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Adjunct Professor of Law, Temple University School of Law, Graduate Legal Studies Division, 1991 - 2001
• Course Planner and Faculty, Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers' Compensation Section Annual Meeting, September 18, 2008
• Speaker, Updates on Workers' Compensation Law, Philadelphia Bar Association Lunch Seminar, April 18, 2007
• Course Planner and Faculty, Dissecting and Defending IRE's and Other Post-Gardner Issues, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, October 30, 2006
• Course Planner and Faculty, PBA Workers' Compensation Law Section 22nd Annual Fall Section Meeting, September 7, 2006
• Speaker, Pennsylvania Bureau of Workers' Compensation Annual Seminar, June 14, 2006
• Featured Speaker and Presenter, "Firing for Cause After an Injury", 2005 Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers' Compensation Law Section Annual Meeting, September 23, 2005
• "Pennsylvania Law," Featured Speaker, Current Issues in Workers' Compensation, St. Paul/Travelers in-house Workers' Compensation Seminar, August 10, 2005
• Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Worker's Compensation Seminar Planning Committee, 2005
• Member, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, W.C. 2004 Fall Section Meeting Planning Committee, 2004 - Present
• Featured Speaker, Cross-Examining the Vocational Expert, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers, Spring Worker's Compensation Seminar, March 12, 2003
• Featured Speaker, Redaction and Prospective Utilization Review Issues under the Worker's Compensation Act, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers, Spring Worker's Compensation Seminar, May 16, 2002
• Speaker, "Developments in the Law of Workers' Compensation Subrogation", Insurance Society of Philadelphia Seminar, April 4, 2000
• Speaker, "Breaking Developments in Workers' Compensation Law", Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar, June 16, 1999
• "Workers' Compensation in the New Millennium", Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, March 16, 1999
• Speaker, "Claimant's Attorney's Perspective on the Litigation Changes Caused By Act 57", Cigna Insurance Company's Annual Worker's Compensation Seminar, May 19, 1998
• Speaker, New Case Law Developments, "The Changing Landscape of Worker's Compensation Law", Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, Worker’s Compensation Seminar, May 14, 1998
• Faculty Member and Speaker, "Presentation of Evidence in Worker’s Compensation Cases", Insurance Society of Philadelphia Continuing Legal Education Seminar, March 11, 1998
• Speaker "Offsets and Maximum Medical Improvement", Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, The New Worker’s Compensation Law, September 13, 1996
• Co-Course Planner, "Worker's Compensation Now and Into the 21st Century", Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association Seminar, July 10, 1996
• Speaker, "Update on Vocational Rehabilitation, Law and Strategies", Philadelphia Worker's Compensation Claims Association, May 20, 1993
• Speaker, "Annual Up-Date of Pennsylvania Worker’s Compensation Law", Pennsylvania Bar Association, Worker's Compensation Fall Section Meeting, 1992
• Seminar Speaker, "Identifying and Handling the Most Common Problems in Worker's Compensation Referee Practice", Philadelphia Bar Association, 34th Annual Conference and Expo, Washington, D.C., October 2, 1992
• Speaker, "Challenging and Paying Medical Bills under the Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation Act", Pennsylvania Bar Association, Annual Meeting, 1991
• Co-Lecturer, "Worker's Compensation in Pennsylvania Issues and Answers", National Business Institute, March 7, 1991
• Course Planner and Moderation, Preparing and Presenting a Worker's Compensation Case, Philadelphia Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Worker's Compensation Workshop, September 27, 1990
• "Heart Attacks and Cardiovascular Disease" and Worker's Compensation Speaker, "Strategies for Direct and Cross-examination of Expert Witnesses", The Work Stress Institute, Seminar and Workshop , 1990
• Speaker, "Worker's Compensation Update", Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Annual Law Update Meeting, February 15, 1990
• Speaker, "Employer's Refusal to Pay Medical Bills", Philadelphia Worker's Compensation Claims Association, October 6, 1989
• Speaker, The Claimant's View of Employer's Obligation to Pay Medical Bills under the Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation Act, Pennsylvania Bureau of Worker's Compensation, Meeting and Referee's Seminar, 1989
• Hearings on the Pennsylvania Worker's Compensation Law and Practice. Testified as to Claimant's Attorney's View of the Current System, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1988

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association, Worker's Compensation Section, 1981 - Present
  Member
  
  
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2002 - Present
  Member, Executive Counsel
  
  
• Philadelphia Bar Association, 1977 - Present
  Member, Committee on Worker's Compensation
  
  
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, 1981 - 1983
  Chairperson
  
  
• Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, 1978 - Present
  Member
  
  
• Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, 1984 - 1992
  Chairman, Worker's Compensation Committee
  
  
• Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations, 1980 - Present
  Member, Worker's Compensation Committee
  
  
• Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Associations, 1989 - 1995
  Executive Board Member and Regional Chairman
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Pennsylvania Sate Workmen's Insurance Fund, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Special Assistant Attorney General, 1975 - 1979

Pro Bono Activities

• Member, Lower Merion Democratic Committee, representing the Ninth Ward, 1984 - 1987
• Member, Executive Board and Vice-President, Temple Adath Israel of the Main Line, 1985 - 1989
• President, Men's Club of Temple Adath Israel, 1985 - 1987