Edward F. Hirshberg

Professional Experience Current Civil litigator and trial attorney with extensive experience in commercial real estate assessment disputes, litigating billions of dollars in property value on behalf of taxpayers. Licensed in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. Clients include US Steel, Sysco, Halliburton, Lear, and QVC. Representative tenants include Amazon, Fed-Ex, and Google. Recent trial victories lowering the fair market value of a property in eastern Pennsylvania by a total of $22 million dollars. And in northwestern Pennsylvania by $10 million. Representative reductions of $23 million and $16 million in fair market value in western Pennsylvania; $11.3 million and $15.3 million in Ohio. Favorable trial verdict regarding Constitutional Uniformity violations pursuant to the Pennsylvania Supreme Courts decision in Valley Forge Towers Apartments N, LP v. Upper Merion Area Sch. Dist. & Keystone Realty Advisors, LLC, 163 A.3d 962 (Pa. 2017). Trial victory concerning issues of tax immunity raised by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Resolved bet the company litigation regarding the tax-exempt status of a local hospital and health-care system.