Joel I. Fishbein is Of Counsel with Hall Booth Smith and focuses his practice on aging services, health care, and medical malpractice, appellate, arbitration & mediation, employment and business litigation..
With more than three decades of litigation and risk management experience, Joel represents long-term care providers, hospitals, physicians, and businesses in complex disputes. He draws on his extensive background to provide strategic counsel in high-stakes matters and to guide clients through arbitration, mediation, and trial. He also has significant appellate experience, having successfully argued novel legal issues impacting health care and arbitration law.
Before joining HBS, Joel served as Senior Vice President and Director of Litigation and Risk at Complete Care Management, where he supervised outside counsel and developed strategies to reduce claim frequency and severity across the organization. Earlier in his career, he practiced as partner at several law firms, where he represented clients in Pennsylvania and New Jersey in medical malpractice defense and long-term care litigation.
Joel has tried and arbitrated numerous cases to successful outcomes, including achieving a multi-million-dollar arbitration award on behalf of a business owner and securing appellate decisions enforcing arbitration agreements in assisted living contracts..
He is certified in Mediation by Harvard Law School and earned his J.D. from Temple University’s James E. Beasley School of Law, where he served as note and comment editor for the Temple Law Review. He also holds a B.S. in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University.
Recognition
•AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated, Martindale-Hubbell
•Best Lawyers in America, 2022
•Pennsylvania Super Lawyer 2006, 2010, 2013, 2014
•Philadelphia Business Journal as a “Forty (Philadelphians to Watch) Under 40”
Presentations
•Torts 101 for Claims Professionals
Internal Client Webinar, December 2021
•Building Blocks for a Comprehensive Risk Management Program in Assisted Living
DRI Nursing Home and Assisted Living Litigation Conference, New Orleans, LA, September 2018
•Putting Your Neutral Foot Forward: Arbitration in Healthcare
DRI Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2016
•PSO, What LTC Providers Need to Know
Long Term Care Risk Legal Forum, Las Vegas, 2016
•PSO, What LTC Providers Need to Know
American Health Care Association Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2015
•Arbitration Drafting
ACI Nursing Home Litigation Meeting, Miami, FL, 2015
•Federal Actions to Compel Arbitration
DRI Nursing Home and Assisted Living Litigation Meeting, Scottsdale, AZ, 2014
Publications
•Nursing Home/Alf Cases: Federal Actions to Compel Arbitration
DRI, For the Defense, November 2014
•Not Inherently Unfair, Arbitration in the Long-Term Care Setting
DRI, For the Defense, 54 No. 8, August 2012
•Products Liability Industry Custom Evidence: Its Relevance in Design Defect Products Liability Cases-Lewis v. Coffing Hoist Division, Duff-Norton Co.61 Temp. L. Rev. 627
In the Press
Hall Booth Smith Bolsters National Aging Services, Acute Care Litigation Team with Joel Fishbein as Of Counsel
September 22, 2025
Hall Booth Smith, P.C. is excited to welcome Joel I. Fishbein as of counsel in the Aging Services Practice.
