Sharon McGrail-Szabo
Partner

(610) 395-5903 (phone)
(610) 395-7097 (fax)

Lehigh Valley Regional Office

SHARON McGRAIL-SZABO is a managing partner in the Lehigh Valley Regional office of Swartz Campbell LLC, where she has practiced since February 1997. The primary focus of her practice is defense litigation of PA workers’ compensation matters. Her major clients include Air Products & Chemicals, Inc., Millard Refrigerated Services, and Buzzi-Unichem.

Sharon was born in Scranton, PA, and was raised in Phillipsburg, NJ, where she graduated from Phillipsburg High School in 1983. Sharon received her undergraduate degree in Government and Law from Lafayette College in Easton, PA. in 1987. While an undergraduate, she won the Benjamin F. Barge Oratorical Prize for debate.

Sharon’s experience in workers’ compensation began with her initial employment as a claims adjuster at PMA Insurance. She gained legal experience as a legal assistant in the plaintiff’s & personal injury firm of Cohen, Knafo, Feeley & Ortwein in Easton, PA.

After these experiences, Sharon returned to school and obtained her Juris Doctor from Widener University School of Law. At Widener, she was a law review staff writer for the Widener Journal of Public Law, and was also named to the Dean’s Honors List.

Sharon is a member of the Pennsylvania and Northampton County Bar Associations, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section.

She has been married to her husband, Scott, since 1988, and has two children.

Areas of Practice

Contracts
Insurance Law
Labor Law
Worker's Compensation Law
Collections & Repossessions

Bar Admissions

1994 Pennsylvania

Education

1994
Widener University School of Law
Harrisburg, PA
Dean's List
With Honors
Law Journal: Widener Journal of Public Law, 1992-1994

1987
Lafayette College
Easton, PA
A.B.
Major: Governmental Law

Presentations

Topics in Workers' Compensation
Lorman Educational Group, 1998

Representative Clients

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Erie Insurance Group
Horsehead Resource Development

Representative Matters

Brasten v. City of Philadelphia, 682 A.2d 875 (Pa. Commw.)

Gallagher Bassett Services v. WCAB (Bureau of Workers' Compensation), 756 A.2d 702 (Pa. Commw. 2000).

Honors and Awards

Benjamin F. Barge Oratorical Prize, 1987