Bio
Paul W. Grego is Senior Counsel in the Firm's Casualty Litigation Department. Mr. Grego has been involved in all aspects of defense work, with particular emphasis on commercial trucking, motor vehicle, premises liability, products liability, and amusement park liability. He is a graduate of Tulane University in New Orleans, where he taught legal research and writing. He worked for insurance defense firms in New Orleans and Lancaster, Pennsylvania from 1981 to the time he joined Post & Schell in 1988. He has tried dozens of cases to verdict over the years in both State and Federal Courts in Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and Maryland. He has extensive experience in defending cases involving wrongful death and brain injury. He also is selected as a defense arbitrator in numerous uninsured and underinsured arbitration proceedings. He is also a trained mediator and is particularly adept at all Alternative Dispute Resolution matters.
Mr. Grego published an article for Defense Research Institute in their exclusive trucking issue of “For the Defense” entitled “A Litigation Target – Commercial Vehicle Anti-Lock Braking Systems.” He regularly attends seminars and is actively involved in meetings in the trucking field, including those sponsored by the Transportation Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the American Trucking Association, the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association, the Defense Research Institute, and the Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA). He concentrates his trucking practice in the areas of personal injury and freight claim litigation and DOT audits.
Mr. Grego handles liability litigation for a host of different insurers and self-insureds, including Zurich, T.H.E., Great American, Celina, American International Group, AI Transport, Ace USA, Gallagher Bassett, EMC, National Grange, MetLife, Donegal Group, Westfield Group, Goodville Mutual, Agency Ins. Co. of Maryland, Pennsylvania Lumbermens, Knoebel's Amusement Resort, Lakemont Park, Rite Aid, Dean Foods, TMC Transportation and Roehl Transportation. He is regularly consulted by these and other of the firm’s clients for pre-litigation advice and strategy.
The Best Lawyers in America©, a national peer-review publication, selected Mr. Grego for inclusion in its 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions in the categories of Commercial Litigation and Product Liability Litigation - Defendants. In 2024, The Best Lawyers in America© also honored him as a "Lawyer of the Year" in the same categories. For information about this selection and an overview of common third-party publications, rankings, and list methodologies, click here.
Education
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J.D., Cum Laude, Tulane University School of Law, 1981
Legal Research and Writing Instructor - B.S. in Business Administration, University of Delaware, 1977
Bar Memberships
- Pennsylvania (1983)
- Louisiana (1981)
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Affiliations
- Transportation Lawyers Association
- Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
- Trucking Industry Defense Association
- Conference of Freight Counsel
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Lancaster Bar Association
Speaking Engagements
- Faculty, "Distracted Driving: The criminal, civil and social consequences," Pennsylvania Bar Institute (July 11, 2014)
- "Freight Claims/Carmack Legal Update," American Trucking Association's Safety and Loss Prevention Council's Winter Steering Meeting, Alexandria, VA (January 24, 2008)
- Moderator, "Sector-Specific Loss Prevention Issues," ATA Freight Claims & Loss Prevention Annual Conference, Orlando, FL (May 15-17, 2007)
- "A Frank Discussion of the Carmack Amendment," American Trucking Association Freight Claims and Loss Prevention Annual Conference, Las Vegas, NV (September 2006)
- "Premises Liability," Pennsylvania Bar Institute (December 2005)
- "Defense Side of Civil Trials," Lancaster Bar Association (December 2003)
- “Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Law in Pennsylvania,” National Business Institute Seminar (2003)
- "Premises Liability," Pennsylvania Bar Institute (April 2000)
- Harrisburg Claims Association Symposium (1999)
- "Dog Law Update," Lancaster Claims Association (2001)
- In addition, Mr. Grego has spoken at all of the firm's Motor Vehicle seminars
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Education
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J.D., Cum Laude, Tulane University School of Law, 1981
Legal Research and Writing Instructor - B.S. in Business Administration, University of Delaware, 1977
Bar Memberships
- Pennsylvania (1983)
- Louisiana (1981)
Court Admissions
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Affiliations
- Transportation Lawyers Association
- Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association
- Trucking Industry Defense Association
- Conference of Freight Counsel
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Lancaster Bar Association