Robert Peirce
| Robert Peirce, III | |
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| Born | May 23, 1970 |
| Nationality | United States of America |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Rob Peirce is an attorney at Robert Peirce and Associates P.C., a plaintiff’s law firm based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
As an attorney at Robert Peirce & Associates, Peirce represents clients on issues relating to personal injury and violations of individual rights. In 15 years of practice he has worked on a variety of cases, seeking compensation for clients in both small and large settlements. Peirce has been involved in several publicly recognized lawsuits and been quoted extensively in the national news media.
Peirce is a trial lawyer at Robert Peirce & Associates PC, a law firm comprising eleven attorneys and based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A plaintiff’s firm, Robert Peirce & Associates represents clients throughout Western Pennsylvania on a wide range of claims including personal injury, nursing home neglect and abuse, class actions, prescription drug claims, food poisoning, mesothelioma, asbestos, railroad law, social security disability, worker’s compensations, employee rights, veteran’s benefits and childhood lead paint litigation. Most recently, the firm earned a major legal victory when a Federal Court ruling granted abused or neglected patients the right to sue county-run nursing homes for violations of federal rights.
After law school, Rob Peirce joined the firm his father founded in Pennsylvania and has since worked primarily with personal injury, nursing home neglect and abuse and social security disability claims. During his career at Robert Peirce & Associates, he has been involved in a number of high-profile cases that received national attention.
After winning several large settlements for clients, Peirce was named to both the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a prestigious group of trial lawyers in the United States. Membership is limited to attorneys who have won million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements.
Peirce and his firm are currently pursuing a civil rights class action against the Allegheny County Jail alleging that the jail's practice of conducting blanket strip searches of misdemeanor detainees before they go to trial is unconstitutional. Although the case is ongoing, Peirce's firm has obtained class certification and a preliminary injunction, which prohibits the jail from continuing this practice until the case is resolved.
Peirce's firm recently established new law in a case in Western Pennsylvania out of the Federal District Court. The court held that the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare did not have the right to assert a lien against the personal injury recoveries of Medicaid beneficiaries to recovery for benefits provided to those individuals. The impact of this case is far reaching, as this practice has generated millions of dollars annually for the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. If the trial court's opinion is upheld on appeal, it may prohibit other states from engaging in similar practices.
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