James P. Johnson
Jim has been a State College resident since 1970. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and the law school at West Virginia. After a term in the Army in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Jim initiated his legal career with Keystone Legal Services, representing low-income individuals with consumer and housing issues. He worked with the disabled community to help establish a transit facility for Centre County disabled citizens which is in existence to this day.
While at Keystone Legal Services, he was instrumental in bringing forward special education issues on behalf of disabled children at a time when these issues were just being established in local school districts.
Since starting his own practice in 1988, Jim has continued to represent consumers in bankruptcy as well as the disabled community and injured individuals in personal injury matters as well as workers’ compensation and social security disability.
At this time, Jim is a solicitor for Centre County Children and Youth Services and continues his work in the consumer-related fields, having done so since 1975.
Jim is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania federal courts and admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. He regularly appears before the Workers’ Compensation judges in Central Pennsylvania as well as the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, the Commonwealth Court and the Supreme Court. He has been a member of NOSSCR (National Organization for Social Security Claimant Representatives) since 1991.
While at Keystone Legal Services, he was instrumental in bringing forward special education issues on behalf of disabled children at a time when these issues were just being established in local school districts.
Since starting his own practice in 1988, Jim has continued to represent consumers in bankruptcy as well as the disabled community and injured individuals in personal injury matters as well as workers’ compensation and social security disability.
At this time, Jim is a solicitor for Centre County Children and Youth Services and continues his work in the consumer-related fields, having done so since 1975.
Jim is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the American Trial Lawyers Association, and the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania federal courts and admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and the United States Courts for the Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania. He regularly appears before the Workers’ Compensation judges in Central Pennsylvania as well as the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Board, the Commonwealth Court and the Supreme Court. He has been a member of NOSSCR (National Organization for Social Security Claimant Representatives) since 1991.