Brian was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers in 2003, and has served as President and Treasurer of the Pennsylvania chapter. Nationally, he is the Chair of two committees – Chapter Leaders and Practice & Technology – and an active member of many others. He has been trained by the AAML in family law arbitration and mediation.
Brian has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America each year since 2010, and was named as the 2019 Best Lawyer of the Year for family law in Pennsylvania. He has been listed in Super Lawyers since 2005, and is among the “Top 50 Lawyers in Pittsburgh” for the past several years. Brian is designated as “AV-Preeminent” by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
Brian is the Secretary and a director of the AAML Foundation, a national charitable organization helping distressed children and families. Each year, the AAML Foundations makes grants to local charities in 22 states for the purposes of providing free family law representation and mental health services for indigent clients, funding shelters and legal assistance for victims of domestic violence, supporting educational programs in schools and courts, and spurring innovative approaches to the administration of justice in family law cases impacting children.
Brian is the co-author of Frumkes & Vertz on Divorce Taxation, an annual publication that is known as the leading national treatise on tax issues in divorce. Brian has served for over 20 years as an author and lecturer for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He was educated at the University of Michigan (BA 1988), the University of Pittsburgh School of Law (JD 1992), and the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (MBA 1991). He is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
More information about Mr. Vertz is published on his law firm's site (PollockBegg.com).