EDUCATION

• Temple University Beasley School of Law (J.D.)
• Pennsylvania State University (BA)

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey

Marla A. Joseph, Esquire, is an AV-rated attorney and partner at Pond Lehocky. Before joining the firm, she owned and operated a highly successful boutique Pennsylvania workers’ compensation and Social Security Disability (SSD) practice for 20 years. Ms. Joseph has represented injured workers and SSD claimants for over 30 years and is proud to be a second-generation attorney, following in the footsteps of her father, Gilbert Abramson, who owned a neighborhood law office sponsored by the Philadelphia Bar Association in the early 1960s.

Ms. Joseph earned her B.A. from The Pennsylvania State University in 1991 (Psychology major; Business minor) and her J.D. from Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1994, where she received an award for achievement in trial advocacy and served as a Teaching Assistant for then–Philadelphia District Attorney Lynn Abraham.

Not only is Ms. Joseph certified as a Workers’ Compensation Specialist by the Pennsylvania Bar Association, as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, but she also serves on the committee responsible for evaluating and determining candidates’ eligibility for certification.

Marla is the distinguished recipient of both the Martha Hampton Award (2024) and the Irv Stander Award (2025), the highest honors bestowed upon workers’ compensation practitioners by the Philadelphia Bar Association and Pennsylvania Bar Association, respectively.

In 2025, Marla was one of only three workers’ compensation attorneys inducted into the inaugural class of the Legends of Justice Hall of Fame in recognition of her longstanding advocacy and commitment to protecting the rights of injured workers. She was also inducted as a Fellow of the College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers in 2022, an honor reserved for attorneys who have distinguished themselves through excellence, integrity, professionalism, and sustained contributions to the field of workers’ compensation law.

Ms. Joseph currently serves as Co-Chair of the Montgomery County Bar Association’s Workers’ Compensation Committee. She is a former Chair of the PBA Workers’ Compensation Section and currently serves as its representative to the PBA House of Delegates. She has long served as a course planner for the Section’s Fall Section Meeting and served as 2021 Co-Chair of the Section’s Electronic Deposition Committee. Ms. Joseph is a frequent lecturer on workers’ compensation issues and received an American Bar Association award in connection with her program on civility in the law.

Ms. Joseph has also been recognized by her peers through professional honors, including selection by The Best Lawyers in America as “Lawyer of the Year” (2025, 2023, and 2020), and designation as a Super Lawyers honoree in workers’ compensation since the program’s inaugural year, including recognition as one of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 Women Lawyers. She received the 2004 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” award from The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly.

Ms. Joseph has held numerous leadership positions within the Philadelphia Bar Association, including Young Lawyers Division Chair (2002), elected member of the Board of Governors (2003–2006), Chair of the Women’s Rights Committee (2001), and service on the Workers’ Compensation Executive Committee (2003) and the Judicial Commission (2001). She has served on the Board of Kids’ Chance of Pennsylvania since 2018 and founded an annual silent auction that has raised nearly $100,000 in scholarships for students whose parents died or were catastrophically injured in Pennsylvania work accidents.