Jeffrey L. Pettit

JEFFREY L. PETTIT is a graduate of the Yale University and the Villanova University School of Law where he was the Managing Editor of the Law Review. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court and the Federal District and Appellate Courts in Pennsylvania. Mr. Pettit holds an AV Peer Review Rating from Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating of professional excellence.

In his over 45 years of practicing law, Mr. Pettit has represented clients in a wide range of litigation matters including commercial, construction, tort, employment, product liability, wage and hour and civil rights cases. He has argued cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Commonwealth Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. In addition, Mr. Pettit has counseled clients on employment-related issues such as wrongful hiring and termination, discrimination, ERISA, and the Family and Medical Leave Act.  Mr. Pettit's expertise has resulted in invitations to speak before the Pennsylvania Community Providers Association and the American College of Medical Physicists. He presently concentrates his practice in construction and commercial disputes and defending clients in product liability cases such as asbestos and chemical exposures. Mr. Pettit was a key member of the trial team that obtained the first defense verdict in a benzene-exposure case in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Mr. Pettit served as School Board Director for the Rose Tree-Media School District for twenty years. He founded the Rose Tree-Media Optimist Youth Lacrosse program which was one of the original members of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Youth Lacrosse Association (“SEPYLA”). He was recognized for those efforts by his election in 2018 to the Eastern Chapter of the Pennsylvania Lacrosse Hall of Fame. He continues to serve his community as the Director of Rose Tree-Media Optimist Youth sports and as Secretary of SEPYLA.