Cathleen K. Rebar

Cathleen Kelly Rebar is the Northeast Regional Managing Partner for Tyson & Mendes.  She handles high-stakes cases insurance defense matters in casualty and professional liability defense as well as construction defect and construction bodily injury claims in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. Cathleen owned and managed the successful regional law firm of Rebar Kelly prior to integrating that firm into Tyson & Mendes in June of 2026. Her leadership over the Northeast has allowed Tyson & Mendes to continue its national growth and pursuit of being the Best Insurance Defense law firm in the Country.

After graduating magna cum laude from Long Island University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1995, she obtained a Juris Doctor from Villanova University School of Law in 1998. She started her career as a prosecutor in Delaware County and then for the State Attorney General's Office before transitioning to civil insurance defense in 2002.  Ms. Rebar is admitted to practice law in Ohio, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Western and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Western, Northern and Southern Districts of New York, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit as well as before the Supreme Court of the United States of America.

Cathleen is an originating member of the Claims Litigation Management (CLM), she is also the Dean of the CLM Claims College, and a Chancellor for the Litigation Management Institute.  She serves as faculty for many of the insurance industry's national educational groups and routinely lectures and teaches on the industry's most important topics. She is considered an expert in her filed, as a trial strategist, and is also a member of the elite American Bar Foundation.  She has been honored with many prestigious awards through her career including appearing consistently as a Super Lawyer.

Along with representing prominent engineers, contractors, design professionals, property owners, national retailers, and one of the largest health care providers and real estate brokerage firms in the country, Ms. Rebar is actively involved with charity and the community. She works closely with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Laurel House, the YMCA and the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence.  She has also served the last 18 years as a Magisterial District Judge in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.