EJS@SommerLawGroup.com

EJ Sharif is a Pennsylvania-licensed attorney with more than a decade of courtroom experience in high-volume commercial litigation. His practice centers on litigation strategy, employment disputes, and complex contractual matters, with a record of managing contested dockets for Fortune 500 companies, banks and financial institutions.

Before joining Sommer Law Group, Attorney Sharif practiced as a litigation associate, as a commercial litigation handling high-dollar property damage and total loss claims for international automaker clients, and as in-house counsel at a large national debt-collection litigation firm.

Attorney Sharif holds a Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University School of Law, where he received the Legal Clinic Clinical Excellence Award, and an MBA in Healthcare Management from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He is admitted to the Pennsylvania bar and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

His academic and community work includes serving as a guest lecturer in policy and government at Carlow University Graduate School of Physical Therapy, an executive board member of the Institute on Relational Change and the Minority Nurses Institute, and a Global Fellowship Scholar in Beijing and Hong Kong, China. Since 2018 he has instructed the Obama Academy Chess Club, teaching chess theory and strategy to students in grades seven through twelve.