About Michael J.
Michael J. Betts educated at Dickinson College, graduating in 1977, and earned his J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1980. He moved into practice the same year, becoming a member of the litigation team at Reed Smith Shaw & McClay. Those youth established his approach to contested things and courtroom work.
He remained at Reed Smith as an affiliate after which companion, gaining hands-on trial and appellate experience. In 1994 he have become a principal in Betts, Hull & Klodowski LLC and continued with successor companies. That duration marked a transition from giant-company practice toward roles that mixed legal proceedings with dispute decision and case-control responsibilities.
In 2009 he shifted to in-house work as senior counsel for litigation at PNC Bank’s legal team. The job broadened his publicity to complicated business disputes and bank-related litigation. He later returned to personal practice because the head of small companies: Betts Law Office LLC in 2013, a principal position at Post & Schell, P.C. in 2016, and the establishment of Michael J. Betts LLC in 2018, where he stays principal.
Betts is admitted to practice before the highest court of the United States, the highest court of Pennsylvania and Pennsylvania courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. The Western District has additionally appointed him to its roster of neutrals and its roster of accredited e-evidence-gathering process unique masters and mediators. He holds a certification as an E-Discovery Special Master and Mediator for that district. He belongs to the Allegheny County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania and American bar associations, the Federal Bar Association, and numerous facilitated negotiation organizations, including the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania and the National Association for Community Mediation.
Throughout his career Betts has cut up his time among contested legal proceedings and alternative dispute decision. He accepts assignments as a mediator and unique grasp in digital discovery, conducts settlement conferences, and represents clients in civil litigation. His work crosses trial practice, case management, and impartial roles that purpose to get to the bottom of disputes without protracted proceedings. He currently practices from Michael J. Betts LLC and continues to provide litigation and impartial offerings in Pennsylvania and before federal courts within the region.
