Joseph Z. Traub

Joseph Traub has dedicated his career to obtaining justice for people injured or killed by others’ wrongdoing.  Mr. Traub has had the great privilege and responsibility of representing people catastrophically injured by defective industrial and consumer products, unsafe construction practices, dangerous driving and serious medical errors. For example, he has helped to secure significant recoveries for a man thrown from a scissor lift with poor lateral stability, a woman whose arm was pulled into a commercial ironing roller that lacked a guard over its pinch point, a family struck by a drunk driver, and a man whose throat cancer was missed by a pathologist.  His work has helped provide financial relief, as well as a sense of resolution, to victims and their families, while also pressing corporate defendants to adopt safer products and medical practices.

Mr. Traub is Editor-in-Chief of The Verdict, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s monthly newsletter.  He has lectured and published articles on legal ethics, strategies in construction litigation, mandatory arbitration agreements, the statute of repose, and federal preemption.

Mr. Traub’s appellate advocacy on behalf of his clients has resulted in several positive developments in the law, including ensuring funds are available to compensate malpractice victims where a doctor’s insurance carrier goes bankrupt (Heim v. Medical Care Availability and Reduction of Error Fund, 23 A.3d 506 (Pa. 2011)), and allowing medical experts to testify where they are familiar with the care at issue even if they do not practice in the same specialty as the defendant (Vicari v. Spiegel, 989 A.2d 1277 (Pa. 2010)).  Mr. Traub has been selected to serve on the Amicus Curiae Committee of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, where Mr. Traub works with his fellow trial lawyers to advocate for the rights of injured persons in the appellate courts of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Traub serves also on the Board of Directors of the National Lawyers Guild Philadelphia Chapter, an association of lawyers and legal workers focused on civil rights and public interest advocacy. In his free time, he enjoys long distance running and playing drums in a band.