About Robert
Robert Szostak graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in biology and psychology in 1976 and earned his J.D. from Widener University Delaware School of Law in 1982. His academic background combines the life sciences and the law, a foundation that informed his early legal work and courtroom practice. He moved from study into practice quickly, taking an early role in an ERISA department before turning to litigation and the bench.
His first listed professional position came in 1976 as Assistant Supervisor of the ERISA Department at Bluestein, Prusky & Susman, P.C. He spent the period that followed gaining litigation experience and then served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen J. McEwen, Jr. of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in 1982. That clerkship provided him with an inside view of appellate decision-making and legal procedure.
After the clerkship, Szostak entered private practice as a trial lawyer. Records show roles at Stephen M. Feldman, P.C. in 1984 and at M. Mark Mendel, Ltd. in 1985. He continued in courtroom-centered positions through the early 2000s, including work at Kornblau and Kornblau, P.C. in 2004 and at Rubin, Glickman Steinberg and Gifford in 2008. In 2013 he is listed as a trial lawyer at the Reiff Law Office, where he has continued his courtroom work.
Throughout his career, Szostak has maintained bar admissions and federal court credentials. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. His Pennsylvania bar membership dates to 1983 and has remained active since then.
Szostak has been active in professional associations and in bar committee work. He served as chairman of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Medical-Legal Committee from 2002 to 2004, then chaired the Rules & Procedure section from 2004 to 2007. He holds ongoing memberships in the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Earlier in his career he was a member of the American Association for Justice in the early 1980s.
He has built a practice centered on courtroom litigation, drawing on decades of trial experience and committee work on rules and medical-legal issues. His current practice focuses on trial litigation and courtroom representation.
