About Jeffrey Bryant
Jeffrey Bryant Engle earned his J.D. from Widener University Commonwealth Law School in 1992. After law school he pursued additional prosecutorial training, completing the Career Prosecutor Course at the University of Houston in 1998. Those early academic steps set the stage for a career that has moved between public service and advisory roles for local government bodies.
He began his legal work in the public sector. In 1997 he served as a deputy district lawyer in the Dauphin County District Lawyer’s Office. That role put him in courtrooms and in the investigative trenches. A few years later he sat on the other side of the bench as a hearing examiner for the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas in 2001. Those experiences gave him exposure to both trial procedure and administrative hearings.
Engle later shifted into solicitor and advisory roles for local entities. In 2008 he took on work for the Dauphin County Board of Tax Assessment Appeals. He became solicitor to the Central Dauphin School District in 2010 and later served as solicitor for the Susquehanna Township School District in 2014. These positions involved drafting and reviewing policies, attending board meetings, and advising school officials on governance and regulatory matters.
His memberships track the range of his practice. He is a member of the Pennsylvania State Bar and the Dauphin County Bar Association. He has maintained long-standing memberships in associations tied to both education law and criminal practice, including the Pennsylvania School Board Solicitors Association, the National School Boards Association’s Council of School Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Outside his legal work he has been active in community organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America and a local Masonic Lodge.
Engle is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and has been admitted to appear before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. His career reflects time spent as a prosecutor, an administrative hearing officer, and as counsel to school districts and county bodies. He balances courtroom experience against the procedural demands of advising elected officials and boards.
He maintains an office at 2205 Forest Hills Drive and currently concentrates his practice on education law for local government clients, criminal defense and appellate work.
