Buckley, C. Barry

Ms. Bryan is a partner in the Litigation Department. She works with hospitals, nurses and physicians in various areas of medical negligence across the State and has developed a special expertise in hand surgery and orthopedic surgery cases. Ms. Bryan has served as lead counsel in numerous cases taken to verdict in medical negligence cases.

After receiving her professional nursing license in 1975, she received both her B.S. in 1978 and her M.S. in 1979 from the University of Pennsylvania. Thereafter, she completed all course work and a significant portion of her Doctoral Dissertation, in Health Education, with a component of Public Health course work, at Temple University where she received her J.D. in 1988. 

Prior to starting the practice of law, Ms. Bryan taught at Villanova University - College of Nursing for a number of years.  Ms. Bryan taught Residents at Temple University Medical School and has been invited to give numerous presentations to various healthcare groups, individuals and academic institutions over the years.  She continues to hold her professional nursing license. 

Ms. Bryan is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida and is admitted to appear before the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and New Jersey Bar Association.  She is also a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society comprised of less than one-third of one percent of American lawyers. Fellowship to the LCA is highly selective and by invitation only. She is AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating system. Ms. Bryan was selected in a survey of her peers as a Pennsylvania "Super Lawyer" by Law & Politics  magazine in 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011.