Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP

Title: Of Counsel
Primary Office: Philadelphia, PA
Practice Area/s: Workers' Compensation
Telephone: 215.972.7901 | Fax: 215.564.7699
Email: pweber@wglaw.com

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Professional Experience:

Mr. Weber is a founding partner of Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires & Newby LLP. He has extensive experience representing employers, insurance carriers, self-insureds and third-party administrators in workers' compensation matters as well as general casualty matters and bad faith actions arising out of the handling of workers' compensation cases. Mr. Weber also has extensive experience in complex litigation and was involved in the defense of personal injury asbestos claims and property damage claims. He serves as a co-author of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Workers' Compensation Practice and Procedure Manual (the "Bible" of Workers' Compensation Law) and has authored the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Annual Survey of Recent Developments in Workers' Compensation Law. Mr. Weber has been a lecturer in law for the Graduate Studies Division of Temple University School of Law, where he taught Workers' Compensation Practice and Procedure.

Mr. Weber's numerous honors include:

- Philadelphia Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Section's Seventh Annual Martha J. Hampton Award;

- From 2004 through 2011, recognition by the publisher of the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his practice specialty within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and in 2006, designated as one of the Top 100 "Super Lawyers" in Pennsylvania and in Philadelphia;

- Listing in The Best Lawyers in America since the 1995 edition;

- Listing in Best American Lawyers in Workers’ Compensation;

- Philadelphia Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section - “In recognition of and appreciation for dedicated service as a member of the Executive Committee,” June 4, 2003;

- Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section, Irving Stander Memorial Award, September 12, 2002;

- Pennsylvania Bar Institute Faculty Member (Workers’ Compensation Practice & Procedure) awarded “ACLEA’s Best of 1999 for use of technology and best seminar in 2000”;

- Pennsylvania Bar Institute Workers’ Compensation Practice and Procedure - “For outstanding service as a member of the course planning committee” awarded in 1985, 1987, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004;

- Pennsylvania Bar Institute Workers’ Compensation Practice and Procedure - “for outstanding service as the chair of the course planning committee” awarded in 2002 and 2004.

- Mr. Weber has achieved an "AV" rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Education:

Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1973.

Villanova University, B.A., 1969.

Professional Memberships and Activities:

Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations, the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Claims Association, and the Pennsylvania Claims Association.

Selected Reported Cases:

Carpenter Tech Corp. v. WCAB (Santoro), 751 A.2d 710 (Pa. Commw. 2000).

Supervalu, Inc. v. WCAB (Rettinato), 727 A.2d 1174 (Pa. Commw. 1999).

Martin v. WCAB (Emmaus Bakery), 652 A.2d 1301 (Pa. 1995).

Pate v. WCAB (Boeing Vertol Co.), 522 A.2d 166 (Pa. Commw. 1987), app. denied, 536 A.2d 1335 (Pa. 1987), cert. denied, 484 U.S. 1064 (1988).

Recent News:

2010-08-16 :: Six Firm Attorneys Named as 'Best Lawyers in America'

2010-05-25 :: 21 Attorneys Named to 2010 Pennsylvania 'Super Lawyers' List

2009-08-06 :: Six Firm Attorneys Named as 'Best Lawyers in America'

2009-05-27 :: Nine Attorneys Named Pennsylvania 'Super Lawyers'

2009-03-17 :: Peter J. Weber and Stephen I. Richman Inducted Into College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers

2009-01-30 :: Three Weber Gallagher Attorneys Honored as 'Best Lawyers in America'