Beer, Fred Joseph

Carol A. Behers is a 1980 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Duquesne University. While attending Duquesne University, she was selected to membership in the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. Ms. Behers attended Duquesne University's School of Law, and attained her Juris Doctor Degree from the University in 1983. She served as Associate Recent Decisions Editor for the Duquesne University Law Review and was selected to membership on the Law Review based upon academic merit.

Attorney Behers was admitted to practice before the State Courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in November 1983. She is currently a member in good standing of the Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, and is a member of the Family Law Section of both associations. Attorney Behers is a past Chair of the Family Law Section of the Allegheny County Bar Association; past Co-Chair of its Professionalism Committee; and past Co-Chair of its Rules Committee. She was also an elected member of the Judiciary Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association. She is also a Past Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section, and a member of its Council.

Attorney Behers is a Fellow in the Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Foundations. She is currently the President and a Trustee of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, and immediate past Co-Chair of its Fellows Committee. She was selected to the "Best Lawyers in America", in the practice area of family law for the 2003-2013 editions. She was named as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, in all editions of the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Magazine, named as one of the top 50 lawyers in Pittsburgh (2010), and one of the top 50 women lawyers in Pennsylvania (2008, 2009, 2010) by the magazine. She was selected to the 2012 inaugural edition of Martindale Hubbell's Preeminent Women Lawyers Registry and selected, again, in 2013.

Ms. Behers has lectured and written on family law topics through the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the continuing legal education arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. She co-authored three (3) publications for the Institute: Pennsylvania Family Law Citator; Premarital Agreements in Pennsylvania; and Pennsylvania Family Law Discovery Forms. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. She Co-Chairs the Institute's Regional (Large City) Committee and Publications Committee, and is a member of its Diversity Committee, and Strategic Planning Committee.

Ms. Behers served on a statewide task force for a Model Unified Family Court System in Pennsylvania. She is the Immediate Past Chair of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee. She received a Presidential Award from the PBA in 2011 for her work related to the passage of Pennsylvania's current custody law. In 2012, she received the Duquesne University Woman of Distinction Award.

Ms. Behers is certified in Collaborative Law, an approach to family law dispute resolution which provides an alternative to court litigation.

Ms. Behers has participated in volunteer service programs through the Catholic Charities. Ms. Behers has also volunteered in connection with various fund raising events sponsored by Duquesne University.

Attorney Behers joined the firm of Raphael, Ramsden & Behers, P.C. as an associate in December 1989. She became a principal in the firm in 1993.