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Professional Liability

The growth, tenacity and creativity of the plaintiffs' bar has ushered in a new wave of matters sounding in professional liability. To meet the needs of our clients, Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin has responded with a team of lawyers devoted exclusively to defending professionals. Our professional liability practice is broad-based and includes many senior attorneys who have significant experience in the defense of large exposure, politically-sensitive and complex cases. An analysis committee examines each case to ensure its proper assignment within our group.
 
Our Professional Liability Practice Group services a broad client base, including, but not limited to:

  • Abstractors
  • Accountants
  • Actuaries
  • Architects
  • Brokers/Dealers
  • Clergy
  • Debt collectors
  • Engineers
  • Financial planners
  • Financial professionals
  • Financial services outsourcing solution providers
  • Information technology advisors
  • Insurance brokers/agents
  • Investment advisors
  • Investment professionals
  • Lawyers
  • Mediators
  • Mortgage brokers
  • Mutual fund and hedge fund administrators
  • Private trust companies
  • Real estate agents and brokers
  • Stockbrokers
  • Title agents
  • Travel agents

 
We also defend fiduciary liability matters, corporate directors and officers, and ERISA claims. In addition to professional liability matters before state and federal courts, we defend financial planners, investment professionals, and brokers and broker-dealers before self-regulatory organizations (SROs). We also handle securities arbitration claims before FINRA, AAA and other SROs. In addition, the group litigates commercial matters including employment disputes, trade secrets, bank litigation, and surety, fidelity and performance bonds.
 
Our offices are centrally linked by state-of-the-art computer networking. Our clients realize added value from our extensive network of offices: travel time is sharply reduced and the attorneys working out of these offices and living in these respective areas are intimately familiar with local practice and enjoy a good rapport with the judges before whom they frequently appear.
 
Recognizing the need for a cost-effective approach to the defense of professionals, our firm is dedicated to providing our clients with quality, timely and economical service. We are on the cutting edge in developing innovative and alternative billing practices.
 
The Professional Liability Practice Group serves clients in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Ft. Lauderdale and communities throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Florida and New York.
 
We would welcome the opportunity to work with you in handling your professional liability litigation. We are also available to conduct presentations or training seminars at your location, or at one of our eighteen offices. 

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May 16, 2013
Case dismissed on summary judgement. The key issue was whether an insurance company, having settled a legal malpractice claim by paying $1.5 million, could then seek contribution from the same client's previous lawyers, asserting that errors by...
May 16, 2013
Middle District Court concludes that a writ of execution upon a bank account used to satisfy a judgment, and issued pursuant to New Jersey substantive law, is not a "legal action on a debt against a consumer" for purposes of the FDCPA...
May 16, 2013
We prevailed in defending a defamation claim brought by a builder/developer against an attorney arising out of an underlying Chancery Division action. We obtained summary judgment and dismissal of the defamation claim in the trial court and obtained...
Sep 1, 2012
We obtained a ruling from the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirming a defense verdict we obtained defending an attorney in a defamation case. The attorney was sued by two physicians, who alleged he defamed them through letters written to the FDA...
Jun 1, 2012
We won decisive battles in a legal malpractice case that generated a significant and precedentails opinion from the Pennsylvania Superior Court. In the first battle at trial, we persuaded the trial judge to dismiss one of the two plaintiffs as...
Apr 1, 2012
We obtained dismissal of all claims against our corporate director client in a multi-million dollar D&O liability case brought by the Chapter 7 bankruptcy trustee against all directors of a bankrupt corporation, as well as its affiliate entities...
Jan 1, 2012
We obtained summary judgment on behalf of our clients, a lawyer and law firm, in a complex legal malpractice case involving multiple underlying parties and cases. We persuaded the court that our clients were not jointly liable in negligence with the...
Sep 26, 2011
Attorney successfully obtained affirmance of a unanimous defense verdict that she secured on behalf of a contract security company in a negligent security/medical malpractice wrongful death case. The Appellate Division agreed that the trial court's...
Sep 8, 2011
Attorneys obtained summary judgment in a legal malpractice action. Plaintiff had been an police officer for a railroad company who was involved in an automobile accident while on the job. With the assistance of his attorneys, our clients,...
Jul 18, 2011
Attorney obtained judgment on the pleadings in a professional negligence claim in which the plaintiff alleged that our client used a fraudulently obtained power of attorney to facilitate the sale of real property owned by the plaintiff. The Court...

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Law Alerts January 1, 2011
The Association appealed the trial court's entry of partial final judgment denying its request for an injunction. This appeal arises out of a complaint filed by the Association requesting, among other things, a permanent injunction requiring..., Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2011
Defense Digest Article December 1, 2010
New Jersey - Attorney Ethics ,  Key Points: Under New Jersey Rule of Professional Conduct 1.9(a) a lawyer who has represented a client in a matter shall not thereafter represent another client in the same or substantially related matter..., Defense Digest, Vol. 16, No. 4, December 2010
Law Alerts October 1, 2010
A plaintiff who settles a case based on the attorney's negligent representation may proceed in suit against that attorney without seeking first to vacate or repudiate the complained-of settlement, even though the plaintiff previously represented..., Case Law Alert - 4th Qtr 2010
Defense Digest Article September 1, 2010
Pennsylvania – Settlement & Releases , Key Points: The release of an insurance agent will effectively release the insurer, as principal, of vicarious liability. Conversely, the release of vicarious liability claims against an insurer..., Defense Digest, Vol. 16, No. 3, September 2010
Law Alerts July 1, 2010
The Florida Supreme Court answered the question of "whether a non-resident commits a tortious act within Florida for purposes of the Long-Arm Statute (F.S. 48.193(1)(b) when he/she makes allegedly defamatory statements about a company with its..., Case Law Alert - 3rd Qtr 2010
Law Alerts July 1, 2010
The Supreme Court of New Jersey allowed a legal malpractice suit to go forward in a ruling that clarified the circumstances in which clients who become disenchanted with settlements can sue their attorneys for negligence. In Guido v. Duane Morris, a..., Case Law Alert - 3rd Qtr 2010
Law Alerts April 1, 2010
The plaintiff was represented by his former attorneys at a hearing to invalidate a Property Settlement Agreement he entered into with his wife. At the hearing, the plaintiff claimed that his former attorneys failed to call relevant witnesses, which..., Case Law Alert - 2nd Qtr 2010
Law Alerts January 1, 2010
Although not binding on Pennsylvania state courts, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania has opined that a plaintiff asserting a claim for wrongful use of civil proceedings against an attorney pursuant to 42 Pa.C...., Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2010
Law Alerts January 1, 2010
Faced with the issue of whether F.S. 718.302 can be applied to the lease that was entered into by the Developer, Jupiter Ocean & Racquet Club, and the Association, Jupiter Ocean & Racquet Club Condominium Association, in December 1976, the..., Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2010
Law Alerts January 1, 2010
A law firm may recover fees for legal services, as set forth in an unsigned contract, if there was a meeting of the minds as to the terms of the agreement. The court explained that language or actions can demonstrate a meeting of the minds; it need..., Case Law Alert - 1st Qtr 2010

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Christopher E. Dougherty
Director - Professional Liability Department
(215) 575-2733
cedougherty@mdwcg.com

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