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1710 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: (215) 790-4571
Fax: (215) 875-7713
Email Miriam Benton Barish
Practice Areas
Environmental and Toxic Torts Law
Miriam Benton Barish
Miriam Benton Barish has earned a reputation for handling her clients with compassion while vigorously advocating on their behalf. She concentrates her practice in products liability, toxic torts including asbestos, lead paint, mold contamination, Accutane, Benzene and other chemical exposures, motor vehicle matters, premises liability including premise security liability, and other personal injury matters.
Ms. Barish has been involved in and actively participated in the Volunteers for the Indigent Program (VIP), which provides pro bono legal services for the poor. She has been a strong advocate in the development of the law regarding protecting the rights of women. She has actively litigated premises liability cases regarding the safety and security of women. She participated in obtaining a landmark verdict, in the first case of its kind, regarding a wrongful death case arising from the negligent premises security of two women. She has actively litigated many other premises liability security cases for negligent security, including the sexual and violent assault of a female inpatient of a psychiatric hospital; the robbery and assault of a female patron in a large retail store parking lot. She also is the Philadelphia Chairman of the Widener Women’s Network, a network exclusively dedicated to developing networking opportunities for Widener Women Alumnae.
In 1988, Ms. Barish earned her Bachelor’s degree from Temple University School of Business. She received her law degree, cum laude, from Widener University School of Law in 1992. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Michigan.
Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Feldman and Smalley, P.C., is headquartered in Center City Philadelphia, and has a national reputation for skilled legal representation of victims who suffer from serious and catastrophic injuries. The firm focuses it practice on Civil and Complex Personal Injury Litigation and Commercial Litigation, and handles class actions, pharmaceutical drug cases, and securities law throughout the country, and all other cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
