1515 Market Street, Suite 700
Philadelphia, PA 19102-1907
215-568-1155
215-568-9319(Fax)
pbech@bazless.com

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Practice Areas
Commercial Litigation
Injunctions and Equity
Class Action Defense
Construction Law and Litigation
Insurance Law
Municipal Law
Zoning and Planning

Bar Admissions
Pennsylvania 1990
New Jersey 1994
U.S. Court of Appeals -
Third Circuit 1992
U.S. District Court -
Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1992
U.S. District Court -
Middle District of Pennsylvania 1994
U.S. District Court -
District of New Jersey 1994

Education
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
1990, J.D., cum laude
Law Review: Editor-in-Chief

Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio,
1982, B.A.








Paul B. Bech
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Paul B. Bech has been with the firm since 1993. Mr. Bech practices primarily in the areas of commercial and public litigation, construction law, insurance law, and municipal law. He has appeared before federal and state trial and appellate courts, federal and state administrative agencies, and municipal bodies. Mr. Bech’s litigation practice has involved the prosecution and defense of a wide range of common law, statutory, and regulatory claims.

From 1998 to June 2003, Mr. Bech was the appointed Solicitor to the Borough of Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. From July 2003 to January 2008, he was a member of the Borough Council in the Borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, where he resides with his family.

Mr. Bech is a cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. While in law school, Mr. Bech was the recipient of the Eckert Prize, the Faculty Award for Excellence in Legal Scholarship (twice), the University Alumni Association Student Leadership Award, the Law Alumni Scholarship, and the Samuel T. Owens Fellowship.

After graduation from law school, Mr. Bech was a law clerk for the Honorable Jane R. Roth of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Prior to law school, Mr. Bech attended Oberlin College, where he majored in religion and minored in history. Upon graduation from Oberlin, Mr. Bech received a Shansi Memorial Association Fellowship, which supported two years of teaching and study in Japan.