The firm has a proven track record obtaining benefits for claimants whose former employers have alleged that they voluntarily quit and were discharged for willful misconduct.  We are also very familiar with the regulations regarding whether a claimant is able and available for work, entitled to benefits due to self-employment income, or refused suitable work.  

Attorney John Stember has represented several hundred individuals at hearings over his thirty year career and has argued nearly 50 unemployment insurance cases before Pennsylvania’s appellate courts, including 10 cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.  John is the author and editor of the Practitioner’s Manual for Unemployment Compensation and frequently lectures for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Allegheny Bar Association, and other organizations on unemployment issues.  Since 1997, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the Duquesne University School of Law's Unemployment Compensation Clinic.  

Recognizing that clients who are in need of assistance with their unemployment insurance claims are out of work, the firm charges a reasonable, flat fee for its services in these matters.