Jason A. Shrive, Esquire

Attorney Jason A. Shrive is the founder and Managing Attorney of SHRIVE LAW, LLC, a small law firm, with big results, located in the City of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. The firm provides legal services all across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York. 

Atty. Shrive focuses his practice in the areas of Criminal Defense and Business/Franchise Law.

Atty. Shrive has been in private practice for over ten years, and has also served in various elected and appointed local governmental positions such as: 

• Solicitor for the Lackawanna County Office of Youth and Family Services (formerly Children and Youth Services);
• Scranton City Solicitor; 
• Solicitor for the Scranton Single Tax Office; 
• Solicitor for the Scranton Sewer Authority;
• Contract Counsel for the Lackawanna County Tax Claim Bureau;
• Court Appointed Criminal Defense Counsel for Indigent Criminal Defendants in Lackawanna and Bradford Counties;
• Deputy Mayor of the City of Scranton; and,
• Scranton School Director.

Prior to opening his own private law practice, back in 2010, Atty. Shrive worked as an Associate Attorney, at a large regional insurance defense law firm, practicing in the areas of Medical/Dental Malpractice Defense, Employment Defense, and Constitutional Claims/Civil Rights Defense.

Atty. Shrive is a member of the Bar in good standing and licensed to practice before the following Honorable Courts: 

• U.S. Supreme Court; 
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; 
• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of PA; 
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of PA;
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court and all other State Courts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and,
• New York Court of Appeals and all other State Courts in the State of New York.

Atty. Shrive is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law, in St. Petersburg, FL; the nation’s top ranked law school in Trial Advocacy.  He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Scranton, in Scranton, PA, where he majored in Political Science and Minored in History. Shrive is also a proud honors graduate of West Scranton High School, in Scranton, PA.

Shrive also serves as a Faculty Specialist, in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Criminology, at his alma mater, the University of Scranton, teaching all of the law and courts related courses. He also serves as Faculty Advisor to the University’s Mock Trial Team and its Pre-Law Society.

Active in the local community, Shrive has served on the Boards of Directors of numerous civic and community organizations including, as President of the Lackawanna Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. He is a member of many organizations, including the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Lackawanna Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, just to name a few. Shrive also sponsors and coaches various youth sports leagues/teams in the Scranton area.

Atty. Shrive resides in Scranton, PA, with his wife and their son.