Tybe Brett has been “of counsel” to Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC., since 2006.

Ms. Brett graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College and is a 1979 graduate of Columbia University School of Law, where she was student articles editor of the Journal of Transnational Law.

During law school, Ms. Brett was a law clerk for the Employment Rights Project, where she worked on employment discrimination class actions against two major publishers.  After law school, she worked as a litigation associate at Drinker Biddle & Reath inPhiladelphia,PA.  From 1983-1990, she was an associate professor at the University of Maine School of Law, where she founded an Environmental Law Clinic.

Since 1990, Ms. Brett has been in private practice in Pittsburgh.  From 1990 to 1995, she was involved in shaping the law in toxic tort class actions, and successfully represented objecting class members in Keene Corporation v. Fiorelli et al., 14 F.3d 726 (2d Cir. 1993), and In re Joint Eastern & Southern Districts Asbestos Litigation (Findley v. Blinken), 982 F.2d 721 (2d 1992).  She also represented objectors before the district court in the case that culminated in the opinions in Georgine v. Amchem Prods., Inc., 83 F.3d 610, 630 (3d Cir. 1996), aff’d, Amchem Prods., Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591 (1997).

Since 1995, she has concentrated her practice on labor and employee benefits cases.  She has successfully advanced the claims of individual ERISA litigants in a number of cases.  See, e.g., Haisley v. Sedgwick Claims Mgmt. Servs., 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20751 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 2, 2011); Steffy v. Liberty Life Assur. Co., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 93515 (W.D. Pa. Oct. 7, 2009);  Babish v. Sedgwick Claims Mgmt. Servs., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18594 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 2, 2009) Kalp v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., 2009 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7957 (W.D. Pa. Feb. 4, 2009);  Jagielski v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62660; 42 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1725 (W.D.Pa. Aug. 24, 2007).

She was recently appointed Class Counsel in Andrako v. United States Steel Corp., C. A. No.    No. 2:07-cv-1629, 17 Wage & Hour Cas. 2d (BNA) 756, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 23583 (W.D. Pa. Mar. 9, 2011), and in Starbird v. Mercy Health Plans, Inc., Case No. 4:07-cv-1050, 2009U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54958 (E.D.Mo. June 29, 2009).

Ms. Brett has authored a number of articles on class actions and on ERISA issues.  See, e.g., CIGNA Corp. v. Amara: Protecting Employees From Disclosure Violations Under ERISA, 106 PBD 6/2/11 (BNA 6/2/11); When the SPD and the Plan Conflict, the Conflict Should be Resolved in the Participant’s Favor, 37 BPR (BNA 10/19/10); A Trial Lawyer's Commentary On One Jurist's Musings of the Legal Occult:  A Response to Judge Weinstein, 88 Nw. U. L. Rev. 592 (1993) (with Thomas W. Henderson, Esq.); Class Actions and Consolidations in Mass Toxic Tort Cases, in ABA Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Managing Modern Litigation: Learning to Live with New Judicial Courts and New Trial Tools (1991) (with Thomas W. Henderson, Esq.); Commentary:  Consolidation of Individual Plaintiff Personal Injury - Toxic Tort Actions, 11 Journal of Law & Commerce 59 (1991) (with Theodore Goldberg, Esq.). 

Ms. Brett is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania; Maine; United States Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third, Second, Fourth,  Seventh Circuits; U. S. District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Eastern District of Pennsylvania; District of Maine; Northern District of Indiana; and the Middle District of Pennsylvania.  Ms. Brett also is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.