Michelle R. O'Brien

Michelle R. O’Brien is an attorney and the owner of O’Brien Law.  She received her undergraduate degree in 1999 from The Pennsylvania State University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Maryland School of Law in 2002.  She is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York.  Attorney O’Brien’s legal practice focuses on the areas of business law, real estate, commercial lending, and energy and oil and gas law.

Attorney O’Brien has also been an adjunct instructor at the University of Scranton since 2010 teaching both undergraduate and Masters of Business Administration classes in the topic of Business Law.

Attorney O’Brien has been named a Rising Star by Law and Politics and was recognized in Philadelphia Magazine, Pennsylvania Super Lawyers – Rising Stars Edition every year since 2013.  Attorney O’Brien has previously been named one of the Top 20 under 40 and one of the Top 25 Women in Business by the Northeast Pennsylvania Business Journal.  She is also a graduate of Leadership Lackawanna.

Prior to forming O’Brien Law, Attorney O’Brien practiced law in a Wilkes-Barre based law firm and prior to that in a Washington DC area law firm.