James Andrew Salemme

Andrew is a zealous and aggressive advocate representing individuals, small businesses and other entities in complex state and federal litigation from pre-trial through appeal.

Andrew concentrates his practice in complex business litigation, civil and criminal appeals, post-conviction matters, and representing vaping businesses in tax and product liability matters. He has represented clients in Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Cambria, Centre, Clarion, Fayette, Jefferson, Philadelphia, Washington, and York Counties as well as in the District of North Dakota, and the federal Western District of Pennsylvania. Andrew has also defended individuals prosecuted by the United States Attorney’s Office, the State Attorney General’s Office and District Attorney’s Offices throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He has argued cases before all of the Pennsylvania state appellate courts and has litigated cases pro hac vice in the Middle District of Pennsylvania and New York. He also regularly represents clients before the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue’s Board of Appeals and Board of Finance and Revenue.

His representation includes:

• Complex civil litigation in State and Federal Court;
• The representation of individuals and entities in civil and criminal appeals;
• The representation of small businesses in tax appeals before the Board of Appeals, Board of Finance and Revenue and Commonwealth Court;
• State PCRA and Federal Habeas post-conviction relief actions;
• Representing plaintiffs and defendants in Federal civil rights litigation under § 1983;
• Providing legal research and writing services in complex ERISA litigation as part of Tucker Arensberg’s ERISA withdrawal liability team, which represents multiemployer pension funds in withdrawal liability cases in arbitrations and district courts throughout the United States.

Andrew was the first-place winner of the NRA civil rights defense fund law student writing contest. Following graduation from law school, he clerked for the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County before joining the Pennsylvania Superior Court where he worked for the Honorable Mary Jane Bowes. While working for the Superior Court, Andrew provided legal research and writing assistance in a wide variety of civil and criminal cases and assisted in the drafting of over six hundred decisions, including over 70 published cases. In addition, during his time at the Superior Court, he assisted in drafting and revising the Superior Court’s wiretap internal operating procedures.