Mr. Frolik is a Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. A frequent lecturer on legal issues of aging and a prolific author, his books include Advising the Elderly or Disabled Client, (2nd Ed. with Brown) (Warren, Gorham & Lamont), The Law of Later-Life Health Care and Decision Making, (ABA), Aging and the Law: An Interdisciplinary Reader (Temple University Press), Elder Law in a Nutshell, (4th Ed. with Kaplan) (West), and the casebooks, Elder Law: Cases and Materials, (3rd Ed. with Barnes) (LexisNexis), and The Law of Employee Pension and Welfare Benefits (with Moore) (LexisNexis).

He is Past-Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Elder Law Section and Past-Chair of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section Seniors Issues Committee. He was appointed by Governor Rendell to the Pennsylvania Council on Aging and serves as Policy Advisor to the Executive Council of the Pennsylvania AARP. He is Editor-in-Chief of the NAELA Law Journal.

He is Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Kendal Corporation, a non-profit entity that oversees several Continuing Care Retirement Communities located throughout the eastern United States. He served as the President of the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania Developmental Disabilities Advocacy Network. In 1995, he was a Congressional appointed delegate to the White House Conference on Aging.

Mr. Frolik is a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, an Academic Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. He received his B.A. from the University of Nebraska and his J.D. and his LL.M. from Harvard Law School.