Bruce Carlson Bruce Carlson is from Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of law in 1989. He was the Executive Editor of the Journal of Law and Commerce in law school. He also obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh, graduating summa cum laude in political philosophy. After law school, he was employed for approximately four years at Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, in Pittsburgh. Subsequently, he was a member at the Pittsburgh plaintiffs-FELA and mass tort firm previously known as Peirce Raimond, Osterhout, Wade, Carlson & Coulter. During his five year tenure at the Peirce firm, Carlson developed and managed one of the largest, if not the largest, pediatric lead poisoning practices in the country. After his practice evolved and began to focus more on consumer class action litigation, he affiliated the practice with a prominent Pittsburgh-based plaintiffs' class action firm. During the three and one-half years that he was affiliated with that firm, Carlson originated and was lead counsel in more consumer class cases than any lawyer in Western Pennsylvania. These cases were filed not only in Western Pennsylvania, but in state and federal courts throughout the country. Effective June 1, 2004, Carlson ended his relationship with his former firm and aligned his practice with his law school friend and frequent co-counsel, Gary Lynch. Carlson is admitted to practice in the state courts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, the United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania, the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia, the Northern District of Ohio, the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas, the District of Maryland, the Western District of Tennessee and the United States Courts of Appeal for the Third and Eleventh Circuits. He is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is a member of the American Association of Justice, and the Pennsylvania, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Trial Lawyers Associations.
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