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Shawn has been practicing law for over twenty years.
A native of Pittsburgh, Shawn served as a medic in the United States Army and the Pennsylvania National Guard. He graduated from Penn State with a degree in Classics in 1992 and served for a year as a volunteer high-school teacher with the Irish Christian Brothers at Rice High School in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. Shawn started law school at the University of South Carolina the following year. While in law school, he was on law review, won the third-year moot-court competition, and served as a teaching assistant in the first-year legal-writing program. He received his juris doctor degree in 1996.
Shawn is admitted in all state and federal courts in Pennsylvania as well as in the courts of the State of New York. Over the course of his career, Shawn has worked for an appellate court and an appellate judge, as a civil litigator in two law firms, as in-house counsel for a large corporation, and as a public defender.
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Acquired: 2003
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State: Pennsylvania
Acquired: 1998
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State: South Carolina
Acquired: 1996
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640 Fourth Street, Beaver, PA, 15009
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Posted by anonymous | September 13, 2017
An Intelligent and Hard-Working Attorney
I have consulted with Shawn Dryer many times over the years, and he is insightful, intelligent and hard-working. I highly recommend him!
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Divorce and separation lawyer
2012 - Present
Assistant Public Defender, Beaver County Public Defender's Office
2003 - 2011
Associate, Babst, Calland, Clements and Zomnir, P.C.
1999 - 2003
Staff Attorney, Adelphia Communications Corporation
1998 - 1999
Associate, Glenn Murphy Gray & Stepp, LLP
1997 - 1998
Law Clerk, South Carolina Court of Appeals
1996 - 1997
Staff Attorney, South Carolina Court Of Appeals
1992 - 1993
Teacher, Rice High School
1986 - 1988
Combat Field Medical Specialist, United States Army
2010 - Present
Beaver County Bar AssociationMember
2010 - Present
Pennsylvania Bar AssociationMember
1996
1992
BA - Bachelor of Arts
English
Mandarin
Arabic
Legal Answers
Can a father take a child from its mother?
15 Oct 2017
Can my ex-husband get sole custody of our child because my new husband is currently in jail?
27 Sep 2017
The state police want to arrest me for forgery from something that happened 2 years ago. Can they do That?
24 Sep 2017