Sharon M. Reiss

Sharon M. Reiss is a Principal in the Firm's Professional Liability Defense Practice Group and focuses her practice on the defense of medical negligence cases. She is an experienced trial attorney, having tried more than ninety cases in both state and federal Courts in Pennsylvania.  Ms. Reiss has a special interest in catastrophic injury cases, as well as psychiatric malpractice cases. She has lectured extensively throughout the region on topics including psychiatric malpractice, record documentation, tort reform, obstetrical malpractice, informed consent, and case law updates. In 2002, she was an invited Special Presenter at the National Judicial College of the American Bar Association, on the topic of Managing Complex Litigation. She was invited by Judge Sandra Mazer Moss once again to be a Special Presenter at the College in July, 2004 in Reno, NV.

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• National Registry of Who's Who, Life Member
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• American Board of Trial Advocates (2004- appointed to serve as Membership Chair of the Eastern PA Chapter;  2005- elected Secretary-Treasurer of the Eastern PA. Chapter)
• Education Committee of the Woodmere Art Museum

• Panelist, "Strategies for Success in the Business of Hand Surgery," 9th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand,  Co-sponsored by the Hand Rehabilitation Foundation and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Philadelphia, PA (February 24-26)
• "Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005," Post & Schell, P.C. (September 15, 2005)
• Presenter, "Cross-Examining the Well-Traveled Expert," Eighth Annual Tenet Defense Counsel Meeting, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (April 2005) 
• Special Presenter, "Managing Complex Litigation," National Judicial College, Reno, NV (July 2004) (with Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge, The Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss)
• Co-Presenter, "Jury Trial Innovations," CLE Seminar, The Pennsylvania Bar Institute (November 19, 2003)
• "Settlement Conferences," Bench-Bar Seminar, Philadelphia, PA (October 23, 2003) (with The Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss)
• Special Presenter, "Managing Complex Litigation," National Judicial College Reno, NV (May 2002) (with Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge, The Honorable Sandra Mazer Moss)
• Ms. Reiss has spoken on the subjects of Psychiatric Malpractice, Records Documentation, Case Law Updates, Tort Reform Act, Obstetrical Malpractice, Informed Consent.