Staff

Paralegals Cathy Steffa, B.S., M.A. Jill Frumer, B.A., J.D. Shari Larson, R.N., BSN, Legal Nurse Consultant Joanna Seidman

Office Manager Roseann Gomez

Cathy Steffa, B.S., M.A.- Paralegal

Catherine Steffa graduated Cum Laude in 1980 from Temple University with a Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education; her Master's degree in Special Educaton from Temple University in 1981; and her Paralegal Diploma from the Philadelphia Institute in November 1994. She has been working as a paralegal with Joseph L. Messa, Jr., Esquire since June 1995.

Jill Frumer, B.A., J.D.- Paralegal

Ms. Frumer received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The University of Vermont in 1985, where she was on the Dean’s Honor List. She graduated cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1988.

Ms. Frumer is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Prior to joining Messa & Associates, P.C., as a paralegal, she practiced as an attorney in insurance defense litigation before switching her focus to plaintiff’s personal injury litigation

Shari Larson, R.N., BSN, Legal Nurse Consultant- Paralegal

Ms. Larson graduated from the University of Virginia in 1989 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She obtained a Legal Nurse Consultant Certificate from Widener University in 2008 and a Paralegal Certificate with a concentration in litigation from Widener University in 2009.

She is an actively licensed registered nurse in PA, VA, and DE. Areas of nursing practice include obstetrics and critical care. She currently works as a Legal Nurse Consultant/Paralegal at Messa & Associates since January of 2008.

Joanna Seidman

Joanna Seidman, a native Baltimorean, graduated magna cum laude from University of Baltimore School of Law in 2006 where she was in the top 2% of her class. During her studies at University of Baltimore, she was a Staff Editor on the “Law Forum” journal, received the “Evidence Book Award” for outstanding performance in the Evidence course and acted as a LAW Scholar holding tutorial sessions in Constitutional Law for first year students. Joanna spent her last two semesters of law school studying at the James E. Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where she was on the Dean’s List, and was honored as having “Distinguished Class Performance” by her professors in the areas of Trusts and Estates and Federal Income Tax. She began her undergraduate study at Towson University, and graduated with a B.A. in Mass Communication.

Joanna is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania. She spent the first three years of her legal career handling medical malpractice matters at a two highly regarded Philadelphia law firms, and served as co-counsel in a case which resulted in one of the highest verdicts in Philadelphia County in 2007 and in another case which resulted in the highest reported medical malpractice verdict in Bucks County within a ten year period. Joanna joined Messa & Associates in October 2009, and currently handles a variety of catastrophic personal injury matters including medical malpractice, products liability, motor vehicle accidents and premises liability.