Patrick Stapleton

With extensive experience representing corporations, insurers and healthcare providers, PJ Stapleton concentrates his practice on commercial litigation, professional liability litigation, general liability, and alcohol beverage law. He appears before Pennsylvania and federal courts. PJ began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board for 14 years. In January 2007, Pennsylvania Gov. Edward G. Rendell appointed PJ as Board Chairman, a position he held for over four years. PJ is also a past Chairman of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association and was a member of the National Advisory Board of The Century Council which is a distilled spirits industry group committed to fighting drunk driving and underage drinking. He is a founder and director of Enterprise Bank of Allison Park, Pennsylvania and a founder of Keystone Weekend, an annual conference of Pennsylvania leaders representing a variety of disciplines including business, government, education and the arts. PJ has been recognized by the publisher of the Pennsylvania edition of Super Lawyers magazine as being among the top 5 percent of practitioners in his practice specialty within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In 2011, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts named PJ its Jefferson Award Honoree.