Joseph Traub, after completing Villanova's graduate program in philosophy, embarked on his legal career. While in law school, he began working on behalf of catastrophically injured union workers, helping to represent them in claims for workers’ compensation benefits and in third party actions.  He also started volunteering with the National Lawyers Guild, an organization dedicated to protecting individual rights.

After graduating, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law, Mr. Traub’s professional work focused on representing workers injured by dangerous industrial machinery.  Too often, the very tools that workers use to do their jobs pose a serious – and unnecessary – threat to their safety.  Mr. Traub represented workers injured by a forklift with inadequate warning signals, a crane with an ineffective boom locking mechanism, a press machine with inadequate guarding devices, and an industrial lift with poor lateral stability, among many others.  Mr. Traub’s efforts, while relieving the financial burden suffered by families whose principal wage earner has been permanently disabled, also contribute to encouraging companies to sell safer products.

After several years in a conventional firm setting, Mr. Traub started his own practice as an independent contractor, providing support to firms working in a wide variety of personal injury litigation.  In addition to defective products, he worked on behalf of people injured by medical malpractice, construction accidents, automobile collisions, and dangerous conditions on property.  Although the bulk of his work has been on behalf of people injured by others’ wrongdoing, Mr. Traub has also worked on several important civil rights cases.  He contributed to a local non-profit’s ongoing efforts to de-institutionalize people with disabilities.  On behalf of the National Lawyers Guild, he helped persuade the City of Philadelphia to institute a method of approving permits for political demonstrations that complied with the requirements of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Mr. Traub’s professional dedication to helping people injured by dangerous industrial products, unsafe construction practices and serious medical errors has continued since he joined Raynes McCarty in 2007.  He remains involved with the National Lawyers Guild.  He chairs the Philadelphia chapter’s Mass Defense Committee, which provides legal support to people engaging in political demonstrations.  Mr. Traub is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice.  He has also written several published articles, including articles in Trial magazine, concerning principles of legal ethics and strategies in construction litigation.

Education

• Binghamton University (B.A. 1991)
• Villanova University (M.A. 1994)
• Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1997)

Affiliations

• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
• Pennsylvania Association for Justice
• American Association for Justice