The Legal Intelligencer Spotlights Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry, P.C.’s Work Representing Clients Sexually Abused by Boy Scout Leaders

Joshua Schwartz | | Crime Victims/Civil Rights Blog

A recent front-page article in The Legal Intelligencer, the leading Pennsylvania daily newspaper covering the legal industry, discussed in detail the work Stewart Eisenberg and Josh Schwartz have done on behalf of their clients who allege they were sexually abused by Boy Scouts of America scoutmasters. The article focused on the impact state laws have on the ability for survivors of sexual abuse by scoutmasters to bring lawsuits against the Boy Scouts.

The article mentioned the lawsuit that Stewart and Josh filed in August 2019 in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on behalf of their client who alleges that he was assaulted hundreds of times by a former scoutmaster when he was a Boy Scout in Northeastern Pennsylvania in the 1970s.

The article also mentioned the large number of sex abuse lawsuits that Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry, P.C. and its partners on the Abused in Scouting legal team plan to file in the coming months against the Boy Scouts.

You can read The Legal Intelligencer’s article.

If you are a victim of sexual abuse at the hands of a leader in the Boy Scouts of America, please visit www.abusedinscouting.com to learn more about your legal rights and to schedule a confidential free consultation.

Joshua B. Schwartz| Personal Injury Attorney
Author: Joshua B. Schwartz| Personal Injury Attorney

Joshua B. Schwartz is a shareholder and Philadelphia personal injury attorney at Eisenberg Winkler Jeck Schwartz Schoenhaus & Sherry. Joshua has nearly 20 years of legal experience focusing exclusively on the representation of the catastrophically injured in medical malpractice, product liability, childhood sexual abuse and other complex personal injury matters. He helped obtain numerous seven figure and eight figure resolutions in medical malpractice and other catastrophic injury cases including what is believed to be one of the largest medical malpractice settlements in Pennsylvania history at $54,000,000.00. He also helped obtain the $2.46 billion Boy Scouts of America sexual abuse settlement, one of the largest sexual abuse settlements in U.S. history. Mr. Schwartz received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts and Sciences with a concentration in Rhetorical Theory from The Pennsylvania State University and his law degree from Widener University School of Law. He is committed to the advancement of the next generation of lawyers, having served as the past Chair of the Future Leaders Section of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He currently serves as an Officer (Secretary) and Board Member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and Board Member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.