Joseph P. Birmingham joined Rubin, Glickman, Steinberg and Gifford as Senior Counsel in November 2024. He brings 25 years of experience to the firm, having previously been a Trial Attorney for the in-house Counsel of a national Property Casualty Insurance Company, and more recently as a Senior Associate at Palmer and Barr, PC, where he handled Trial work on both the Plaintiff and Defense sides.
Joe is well versed in all aspects of Litigation, having successfully Tried, Arbitrated, and Mediated hundreds of cases in all of the courts of the five-county area surrounding Philadelphia. He has handled litigation matters in the County Court systems of 18 different Pennsylvania Counties, with a caseload comprised of handling automobile, slip and fall, premises liability, and general liability matters as well as first-party medical claims. Additionally, he is also experienced in the handling of Under Insured and Uninsured Motorist claims to Mediations and Binding Arbitrations.
Joe also served on various National Home Office Committees and provided many Litigation Training Seminars to Claims Adjustors and fellow Staff Attorneys over many years, as well as offering Continuing Legal Education seminars to fellow Attorneys.
Joe is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Notre Dame Law School. He is Admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to practice in all Pennsylvania State Courts, as well as Admitted in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania’s Federal Court. He began his legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk in the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas, and currently focuses his practice on Pennsylvania Civil and Commercial Litigation cases. He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and the Montgomery Bar Association.
He is an active member of the community, and is a Lector and Sacristan at St. Rose of Lima Church in North Wales, PA. He has previously served as a Board Member and Coach in the Mater Dei CYO organization, and has Coached High School Softball at Mount Saint Joseph’s Academy. In his free time, he is pursuing a Masters Degree in Theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, where he is studying in the School of Diaconal Formation as he progresses towards becoming Ordained as a Permanent Deacon.
