Tybe Ann Brett is of counsel to Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Cordes, LLC. Her practice is concentrated on ERISA cases involving employer-sponsored disability, health, severance and pension plans. She has also represented plaintiffs, both individually and in class actions, in a wide array of other types of litigation, including environmental contamination, toxic torts, trademark infringement, insurance and securities fraud.

Tybe graduated with a BA, magna cum laude, with honors in history, from Barnard College in 1976. In 1979, she received her JD from Columbia University School of Law, where she was student articles editor of the Journal of Transnational Law. From 1983 to 1990, she was an associate professor at the University of Maine School of Law, where she also directed an Environmental Law Clinic. Since 1990, when she returned to her native Western Pennsylvania, she has been in private practice in Pittsburgh, but has continued her academic interests by publishing a number of articles on class actions and teaching toxic torts as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Ms. Brett is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and Maine, as well as to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second, Third, Fourth and Seventh Circuits, as well as district courts in Pennsylvania and other states.

The mother of two children, Tybe developed a moot court program for the students at Jefferson Middle School in Mt. Lebanon, PA. She is a member of the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and the Mt. Lebanon Environmental Community Action Team.