About Michael A
Michael A Johnson earned his Juris Doctor from Ohio Northern University in 1977 after finishing a bachelor’s diploma at Saint Vincent College in 1973. He holds admissions that reach beyond state lines, which includes the U.S. highest court, the Third Circuit, the Federal Circuit and the Pennsylvania bar. Those credentials set the stage for a long profession throughout public, personal and academic roles.
He started taking over municipal and title matters within the Nineteen Eighties. In 1987 he served as Assistant Municipal Solicitor for the Borough of Scottdale, Pa., and that identical year he became an approved lawyer for Commonwealth Land Title Company. That early work tied him to both local government practice and the title industry, regions he maintained thru later leadership roles.
Mr. Johnson has been a lively player in bar organization lifestyles for decades. He has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar since 1980 and a lifestyles member of the Westmoreland Bar Association since 1981. He has been concerned within the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Section, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Pa. Trial Lawyers Association workers’ damages area. From 1996 to 2003 he held more than one posts within the Ned J. Nakles American Inn of Court, including barrister and roles at the executive board.
He has additionally taken on governance and enterprise management. He served as president and board member of Lawyers Abstract Title Company from 1997 to 2002 and has maintained a relationship with title firms because the late Nineteen Eighties. He represented Westmoreland County at the PBA Zone 6 Board of Delegates in the mid-1990s and chaired local bar constructing committees in earlier years.
Teaching and talking were habitual themes. Mr. Johnson was a part-time law professor within the paralegal program at Westmoreland County Community College from 2007 to 2015. He was a panelist and lecturer on the PATLA/WBA/PBA employees’ damages seminars from 1995 thru 2002. He has additionally recommended excessive school mock trial groups and served on nearby chambers of trade and festival committees.
Community service has run along his professional work. Between 1993 and 1999 he held leadership posts on the Mental Health Association of Westmoreland County. He has served at the St. Vincent College Alumni Council and brought phase in numerous civic boards and committees in the Mt. Pleasant area.
Today he stays active in statewide and local bar groups and continues to accept things in Pennsylvania federal and state courts. His recent practice makes a speciality of employees’ compensation, land title things and municipal law.
