Legal Experience That Stands Out
Stewart’s experience spans contract and business disputes, restrictive covenant and non-compete matters, healthcare-related litigation, constitutional claims, data breach matters, and insurance coverage and bad faith cases. An experienced appellate advocate, he has successfully defended and overturned multimillion-dollar verdicts on appeal.
In addition to his litigation practice, Stewart was elected in November 2011 to a four-year term as Controller for Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, overseeing approximately $400 million in annual expenditures and a $500 million pension fund.
Stewart earned his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law, where he served as president of the university’s chapter of the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies. After graduation, he clerked for President Judge Emeritus Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., of the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
He has served in leadership and service roles including former Director of Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, former Director of the Montgomery Bar Association and former President of its Trial Lawyers Section, and a six-year term as a hearing committee member for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Disciplinary Board.
Representative Matters
- Co-counsel for the owner of a country club and golf course resort company in a contract dispute against a national builder of residential communities, in which the jury awarded $20 million following a two-week trial.
- Counsel for Episcopal parish, bishop, and church members in defending against defamation, breach of contract, and tort claims alleged by a former priest. Won summary judgment on constitutional principles and subsequently defended the favorable judgment on appeal before the Pennsylvania Superior Court.
- Co-trial counsel for a regional healthcare system in a nursing home wrongful death case alleging corporate negligence and vicarious liability. After a four-week trial in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, won a nonsuit ruling for the client.
- Appellate counsel on oral argument preserving a $2 million jury verdict in a medical device product liability case.
- Co-counsel in a Pennsylvania Supreme Court case, winning reversal of Superior Court and trial court decisions, resulting in the enforcement of proper contract interpretation principles to reverse a $1.6 million judgment against the client.
- Appellate counsel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, successfully vacating the trial court’s injunction against the client.
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