Joseph Schwartz has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar since 2001. He practices in the fields of Personal Injury, Employment, Social Security and Workers’ Compensation. Prior to joining Silver and Silver, he worked for firms in California and Philadelphia, helping individuals who have been injured due to the negligence of others or have been subjected to unlawful discrimination by their employers.

Mr. Schwartz has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in History where he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Academic Honor Society and a Juris Doctorate from the Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California where he was awarded an academic scholarship. He has served as an arbitrator for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, written for Philadelphia Lawyer Magazine, and had his work featured in a cover story in the Legal Intelligencer when his advocacy led to a Federal Judge invalidating a major oil company's mandatory employee arbitration policy. In 2009 he was selected as one of Main Line Today’s Top Lawyers in the field of Personal Injury law and has taught classes for for the Philadelphia Bar Association’s People’s Law School. He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania state courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and throughout the country in Social Security cases.

He has successfully advocated for his clients in jury and bench trials, oral argument in Federal Court, arbitration matters, and also before administrative agencies including the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the Pennsylvania Unemployment Compensation Board of Review, the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations, and the Social Security Administration. Mr. Schwartz and his wife, who is a physician specializing in physical rehabilitation medicine, have two sons.