Stephen Trzcinski

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Of Counsel


Mail: trzcinski@bbs-law.com
Phone|Fax|Text: 215.665.3372
Office: Philadelphia, PA

Education

  • State University of New York at Binghamton, B.S.

  • Syracuse University College of Law, J.D.

Admissions

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania

  • New Jersey

  • New York

  • West Virginia

Court Admissions

  • United States Supreme Court
    United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

  • United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania

  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
    United States District Court for the Northern, Western and Southern Districts of New York

  • United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

Hobbies/Interests

  • Spending quality time with his wife and two daughters

  • Exercising

  • Watching college basketball

Stephen Trzcinski is Of Counsel in the firm’s Philadelphia office, where he is a member of the Appellate Advocate Practice Group. With over 20 years of appellate and post-trial experience, he is responsible for directing and overseeing cases through the appeals process. He is also a member of the firm’s Special Investigations and Fraud team, which represents insurers throughout the country in their ongoing fight against fraudulent and suspicious claims. 

Stephen’s broad experience includes representing parties on both sides of the bar. He began his legal career in New York representing businesses and professionals in all phases of litigation. After learning the ropes at the trial court level, Stephen joined a large civil defense firm in Philadelphia where he practiced for over five years. As a full-time member of that firm’s Appellate Practice Group, Stephen was responsible for preparing and arguing appeals on a wide range of topics, including commercial litigation and professional liability defense.           

After establishing his defense credentials, Stephen joined a national plaintiffs’ firm specializing in cases involving long-term care litigation, catastrophic injuries, and corporate fraud. During his 12-year tenure, Stephen managed hundreds of appeals and won many precedential decisions, including a trio of decisions known as Scampone I, II and III—a seminal nursing home neglect and abuse case. See, e.g., Emily Sachar, “The Law,” AARP Bulletin (Mar. 2013) (discussing Scampone and its potential nationwide impact); Robert L. Sachs, Jr., “From the Operating Room to the Boardroom,” Trial (Oct. 2013) (same). As one commentator explained, that case “opened the door to punitive damages, admissibility of Department of Health surveys and exposure for parent companies that ‘manage’ nursing homes.” Joan Orsini Ford, “Long-Term Health Care Dealt Another Blow,” Defense Digest, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Dec. 2017). Those reported decisions are: Scampone v. Grane Healthcare Co., 11 A.3d 967 (Pa. Super. 2010), Scampone v. Highland Park Care Center, LLC, 57 A.3d 582 (Pa. 2012), and Scampone v. Grane Healthcare Co., 169 A.3d 600 (Pa. Super. 2017).

Having handled many high-profile appeals, Stephen has been regularly quoted in articles from Law360, The Legal Intelligencer, and Pennsylvania Law Weekly. His work product was also featured in SCOTUSblog, a top news source for Supreme Court coverage. In Taylor v. Extendicare Health Facilities, Inc., 147 A.3d 490 (Pa. 2016), cert. denied, 137 S. Ct. 1375 (2017), Stephen lodged a direct challenge to the Court’s broad interpretation of the Federal Arbitration Act. After considering that Supreme Court filing, SCOTUSblog selected Stephen’s petition for writ of certiorari as its “Petition of the day.” See, Kate Howard, Petition of the day, SCOTUSblog (Feb. 24, 2017, 11:23 PM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2017/02/petition-of-the-day-1100/.      

Stephen received his Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1991, and his Juris Doctor from the Syracuse University College of Law in 1994. While in law school, he served as Associate Editor of the Syracuse Law Review and was honored with the Robert M. Anderson Publication Award for authoring “The Economics of Redlining: A Classical Liberal Approach,” 44 Syracuse L. Rev. 1197 (1993). Stephen’s law review article has been favorably cited by numerous sources, including the NAACP. See, e.g., Brief of Amicus Curiae NAACP, in support of Respondents, Bank of Am. Corp. v. City of Miami, 137 S. Ct. 1296 (2017).

In his free time, Stephen enjoys watching college hoops and rooting for his alma matter, the Syracuse Orange.      

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