Michael B. Jones
Attorney Jones’ thirty-two (32) years of trial experience encompass a variety of civil litigation matters including wrongful death, serious personal injury, motor vehicle and tractor trailer accidents, bar fights, defective products, negligent security, professional negligence, insurance coverage disputes, municipal defense, employment matters, contracts, land use, commercial and corporate contract negotiation and litigation.
Attorney Jones is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum having resolved cases with million-dollar verdicts or settlements. He is a past Zone Ten Governor to the Pennsylvania Bar Association (PBA) where he has been a Delegate for over 25 years.
As a leader in the community, Attorney Jones sits on the Board of various charitable organizations including the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the Beaver County Educational Trust and The Center in Midland. As President of the Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the PBA, he focuses on development initiatives for future growth of the Foundation. The Foundation provides loan repayment assistance to law students, grants to Bar Associations and materials for law-related education for local school children.
Attorney Jones currently serves as Solicitor for Hopewell Township (1996), Greene Township (2011), the Prothonotary of Beaver County (2024), and the Beaver Borough Municipal Authority (2023). He also served as Assistant Beaver County Solicitor early in his career and Solicitor to the Beaver County Coroner from 2001-2015.
Areas of Practice
- Wrongful Death
- Serious Personal Injury
- Construction and Industrial Accidents
- Motor Vehicle and Trucking Accidents
- Insurance Coverage and Exclusion Disputes
- Corporate and Commercial Transactions and Litigation
- Oil & Shale Gas Leases, Pipeline Easements and related Litigation
- Dramshop Claims (Drunk Drivers, Bar Fights and Injuries related to intoxication)
- Dangerous and Defective Products
- Professional Negligence Claims
- Employment Matters
- Land Use
- Municipal Law
Bar Admissions
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1994
- U.S. District Court Western District of Pennsylvania, 1994
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1994
Education
- Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Juris Doctorate – 1993
- University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio
- B.S., Bachelor of Science – 1989
Work Experience
- McMillen, Urick, Tocci & Fouse, Aliquippa, PA, Associate Attorney 1994
- McMillen, Urick, Tocci & Jones, Aliquippa, PA, Partner since 1996
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Recipient of the 2020 Pennsylvania Bar Association President’s Award in recognition of outstanding leadership and dedication as Chair of the PBA COVID-19 Task Force.
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Chair, COVID 19 Task Force, 2020 – 2021
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Co-Chair House Committee on Draft, 2021 – 2025
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Co-Chair Executive Director Search and Transition Committee -2022
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Co-Chair By-Laws Committee, 2019 – Present
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Zone Ten Governor, 2015 – 2017
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member, House of Delegates, 1999 – Present
- Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, President, 2022 – Present
- Advocates Club Member Pennsylvania Bar Foundation since 2023
- Life Fellow Pennsylvania Bar Foundation since 2012
- Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, Director, 2016 – 2020
- Pennsylvania Bar Foundation Development Committee Chair since 2018
- Pennsylvania Bar Foundation, Chair, Strategic Planning Task Force since 2020
- American Association for Justice, Member, 2002 – 2016
- Beaver County Bar Association since 1994; President, 2018-2020
- Beaver County Bar Association, Legal Journal Committee, Co-Chair since 2021
- Beaver County Bar Association, Investment Committee since 2018
- Beaver County Bar Association, By-Laws Committee since 2018
- Beaver County Bar Association, Fee Dispute Committee since 2000
- Beaver County Bar Association, COVID-19 Task Force, 2020 – 2021
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Municipal Law Section since 2015
- Pennsylvania Bar Association Civility in the Profession Committee, 2020 – Present
- Pennsylvania Association for Justice, 2021- 2022
- Member Pennsylvania Association of Township Solicitors since 2015
- President, Beaver County Educational Trust, 2020 – 2024
- Board of Directors, The Center, Midland, PA since 2019
- Conference of County Bar Leaders Executive Committee – At Large Member since 2020
- Conference of County Bar Leaders Executive Committee – Vice President 2025