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Edgar Snyder & Associates , Altoona , Pennsylvania 16601

Practice Areas: Workers Compensation

Attorney Jim Garver was voted for inclusion in the 2013-2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America®, an honor based on rigorous peer review. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice." Also, Attorney Jim Garver has been selected to the 2014-2024 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® list, an honor awarded to the top five percent of state-wide lawyers. He is certified as a specialist in the practice of workers’ compensation law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Section on Workers’ Compensation Law.. Prior to representing injured workers at the law firm of Edgar Snyder & Associates, Attorney Garver worked for a workers compensation defense firm in Harrisburg. He was also previously a law clerk for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Stephen Zappala, Sr.. He represents clients in cases involving:. Education and Licensing. Attorney Garver received a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.. He is licensed to practice law in all State and Federal Courts of Pennsylvania.. Community Involvement. Attorney Garver was born and raised in Blair County, Pennsylvania.  In 2020, Attorney Garver received the Hometown Favorite Attorney Award from the Altoona Mirror as voted on by its subscribers.

Firm: QuatriniRafferty

615 Howard Avenue , Altoona , Pennsylvania 16601

Practice Areas: Business & Commercial, Civil , Municipal , Real Estate , Workers Compensation, Litigation

Michael P. Routch is an associate at the firm and concentrates his practice in the areas of workers’ compensation, employment law, general civil litigation, real estate, commercial transactions and estate/succession planning for small businesses and families.He received his B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1998, and his law degree from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1991.During his decades of litigating workers’ compensation cases, Mr. Routch has litigated cases involving surveillance evidence, hearing loss, psychiatric injury, occupational disease, earning power, death claims, heart attacks, and pulmonary injury.Mr. Routch currently serves as Chairman of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Law Section, where he has been at the forefront of shaping workers’ compensation administration and advocacy on behalf of his peers throughout the Commonwealth. He is also chair of the statewide subcommittee that recommends publication of significant cases on workers’ compensation decided by the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. Michael also serves as an arbitrator for civil matters in the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County.Michael is a frequent presenter at workers’ compensation continuing legal education events and at Chamber of Commerce workers’ compensation and safety programs. In 2016, he presented at Healthforce’s Occupational Medicine Series on Key Issues in Workers’ Compensation. Since 2017, he has served as an adjunct lecturer of trial advocacy at Penn State Law School.Michael was born and raised in Blair County, Pennsylvania and resides in Duncansville with his wife, Shari, and two daughters, Kendall and Sydney.