Karl Myers is a leading Pennsylvania appellate lawyer who has personally argued and briefed numerous precedent-setting cases before the appellate courts of Pennsylvania and other jurisdictions. He maintains a particular focus on cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme, Commonwealth and Superior Courts, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, including litigation involving state and federal constitutional challenges, Pennsylvania Right-to-Know Law requests, government contracting and bid-protest disputes, insurance insolvency and regulatory matters, state administrative agency disputes, complex commercial actions, and many other types of civil cases. Karl has served as counsel of record in hundreds of cases before Pennsylvania’s appellate courts.
Clients routinely entrust Karl with high-risk appeals; the combined amount in dispute in his appellate matters is approaching a half-billion dollars. The nature of these appeals has led to Karl’s frequent presentation of televised arguments on the Pennsylvania Cable Network. These arguments are often quoted in the Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Legal Intelligencer, Law360 and other publications, which seek Karl out as a commentator on issues of importance before the Pennsylvania appellate courts. Karl also often serves as a panelist and moderator for appellate practice presentations and continuing legal education seminars.
Karl is active in the community of appellate practitioners. He currently serves as co-chair of the Appellate Advocacy Committee of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and is a charter member of that Committee, having been a member since its formation in 2003. He also serves as Pennsylvania State Chair of the Council of Appellate Lawyers of the ABA’s Appellate Judges Conference, the first and only national appellate bench-bar organization. Karl previously served as chair of the Appellate Advocacy Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and of the Administrative Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He also is an active member of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Historical Society and the Third Circuit Bar Association.
The roots of Karl’s appellate capabilities run deep, and include experience from within the appellate courts, as he served as a law clerk for the Hon. Russell M. Nigro of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania immediately following law school, and also served as a clerk for the Hon. John T.J. Kelly Jr. of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania while still in law school.
In addition to his appellate practice, Karl also is an experienced trial court lawyer who has handled disputes from inception through verdict, decision or resolution in hundreds of cases pending before the state and federal courts in the region. Karl’s diverse litigation practice has touched virtually every type of civil matter, including insurance coverage and bad faith cases, commercial disputes, and contract, tort and personal injury matters.
Karl also has adjudicated dozens of civil cases as a state and federal court-certified arbitrator, usually serving as the arbitration panel’s chairperson. He has been trained as a civil mediator by the American Arbitration Association. Karl also assisted in the judicial selection process by serving three terms as a reviewer in the Investigative Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention, a body that interviews, evaluates and rates state court judicial candidates.
During his distinguished law school career, Karl was selected as a member of the Appellate Moot Court Board, Dickinson Law Review and Woolsack Honor Society. At that time, he also served as a clerk for the Hon. Yvette Kane of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Karl began his legal career as an intern for the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.