About Shawn M
Shawn M Pierson has built a career that bridges business, health care administration and elder law. He combined early management roles in the health care sector with later legal training. That mixture of practical operations experience and a law degree informs how he advises older clients today.
Pierson earned a bachelor’s degree in business, human resources and law from Temple University in 1986 and followed that with an MBA from Temple in 1988. He returned to school and received a J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in 1998. Those academic credentials reflect a steady move from business education toward legal practice over roughly a decade.
Records show Pierson worked in health care administration in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as Director of Administration at Manor Health Care Corporation and later as Director of Human Resources at Manor Health Care. Around the same period he was involved in elder planning at Marshall & Associates. That early exposure to the operational side of long-term care and personnel management helped shape his understanding of the issues older adults face when planning for care and guardianship.
After completing his law degree, Pierson established his private practice. In 2002 he is listed as operating the Law Office of Shawn M Pierson as Lawyer-at-Law. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania. Over time his client work has reflected the interests and memberships he maintains in professional organizations dedicated to elder law and related fields.
Pierson holds memberships in the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, the Lancaster Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Elder Law Section. Those affiliations indicate continued engagement with developments in elder law, estate planning, and public benefits advising. His practice has emphasized elder planning, estate and incapacity planning, and issues that arise at the intersection of health care and law.
Colleagues and clients see Pierson as a practitioner who brings administrative know-how to legal counseling. He draws on experience from both the business side of health care and from years in private practice when assessing options for clients facing long-term care decisions and estate matters. He maintains an office as Lawyer-at-Law and continues to work with older adults and their families on planning and protective arrangements.
Pierson currently practices law in Pennsylvania and concentrates his practice on elder law, estate planning, and related counseling for older adults and their families.
