Benjamin Schweers

Benjamin W. Schweers is the Lead Medical Malpractice Attorney at Dean Omar Branham Shirley, LLP, based in the firm's Pittsburgh office. He earned his Bachelor of Science cum laude in Environmental Studies from Skidmore College and his law degree from Lewis and Clark Law School in 2012. Schweers focuses on catastrophic medical error cases, representing clients injured by preventable mistakes at medical facilities. Coming from a family of lawyers, he credits his mother, a teacher, with developing his communication skills.

He emphasizes the power of storytelling in litigation, viewing his primary role as giving clients a voice before judges, juries, mediators, and defense counsel. He is admitted in Pennsylvania and before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Schweers has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2021 through 2024, a National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum.