About Harry
Harry McGrath constructed a regulation profession that crosses public service, faculty governance and federal court work. He earned a B.S. in Political Science and Criminal Justice from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania in 1979 and later took his law degree from Widener University School of Law. Those credentials underpinned a varied professional lifestyles that started outside the courthouse and moved steadily into it.
Early on McGrath served as a special agent for the United States Secret Service in 1983. He then moved into the legal world, clerking in 1992 for the Honorable William J. Nealon, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. That clerkship offered an interior view of federal legal proceedings and procedure. Briefly after the clerkship he entered personal practice and in 1994 have become a partner at Cowley and McGrath Law Offices.
The mid-Nineteen Nineties additionally marked the begin of an extended involvement with nearby school districts. In 1994 he started serving as solicitor to the Scranton School District and took on the solicitor position for Mountain View School District in 1998. Those assignments overlapped with volunteer and board positions: he joined the board of the Ballet Theatre of Scranton in 1996 and served on the Widener University School of Law Alumni Association board earlier within the decade. He also served at the board of trustees for Friendship House of Scranton from 1995 to 2001.
In 1999 McGrath based McGrath Law Offices. The company grew out of his private-practice work and his municipal and education law engagements. He holds admission to practice in Pennsylvania and earlier than the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar, the American Bar Association, the Lackawanna County Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association. He has been lively in the Pennsylvania School Board Solicitor Association and has remained concerned in nearby politics as chairman of the Lackawanna County Democratic Party since 2006.
His profession indicates a mixture of prosecutorial-style investigation, federal-court experience, and lengthy service advising school boards and municipalities. Colleagues and clients have discovered that background beneficial when matters involve each education coverage and legal proceedings. He continues to practice thru McGrath Law Offices and handles school law and faculty district matters, whilst representing clients in state and federal courts, which includes appeals before the Third Circuit.
