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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. 

Case Study February 8, 2013

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Jun 28, 2011
Attorney obtained a dismissal of a legal malpractice action. The attorney argued that the defendant attorney, who represented a judge and his wife in custody and visitation matters in Superior Court, was not a state actor for the purpose of...
Jun 20, 2011
Attorneys obtained summary judgment in a legal malpractice matter. Plaintiff was allegedly injured while boarding a Transit train. He retained our client to represent him. Our client filed a notice with the Transit Provider of the tort claim....
Jun 6, 2011
Attorneys successfully obtained an affirmance of a grant of summary judgment in a legal malpractice action arising out of our insured-attorney's former representation of a client in an equity action relating to a complex real estate refinancing...
May 31, 2011
Attorneys obtained the dismissal of a professional liability complaint against a defendant law firm with prejudice and an order imposing sanctions, based upon plaintiff's willful spoliation of computer hard drive during discovery. The Superior Court...
Apr 26, 2011
Attorney obtained an order granting a motion for judgment on the pleadings in a Dragonetti and abuse of process action in for his clients, a law firm and large hospital, brought against them by a legal secretary. In the first of two underlying...
Mar 21, 2011
Attorneys obtained summary judgment in a legal malpractice action where the plaintiff alleged that our clients, a lawyer and his former law firm, delayed the prosecution of her underlying dental malpractice case for a period of over ten years prior...
Mar 8, 2011
Attorneys successfully obtaining a dismissal of a legal malpractice action filed by the buyers against the attorneys for sellers who were negotiating with the lender for the buyers in an effort to approve a short sale to the buyers.  The plaintiffs...
Mar 8, 2011
Attorneys obtained summary judgment. Plaintiffs, two limited partners claimed that our client, an attorney for the general partner, aided and abetted the general partner's breaches of fiduciary duties owed them.  The court held that an attorney...
Mar 8, 2011
Attorneys obtained dismissal of the claims against our client on a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction.  Our client was a consultant to one of the largest fitness club operators in the United States, responsible for overseeing a complex...
Feb 15, 2011
Attorney obtained a defense verdict after a jury trial. The plaintiff filed a claim against his former attorney asserting that the attorney was professionally negligent in allowing the IRS to receive a large sum from the plaintiff's sale of real...

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Law Alerts April 11, 2013
In this legal malpractice action, the plaintiffs set forth a claim for breach of contract arising from an underlying stock purchase agreement, wherein the plaintiffs erroneously believed, based upon attorney-defendants' advice, that the sale..., Case Law Alerts - 2nd Quarter 2013
Law Alerts April 11, 2013
The broker secured windstorm coverage for the condominium association through an insurance company. The association's condominium was damaged by hurricanes. It proceeded with expensive remediation efforts after the broker assured it that the..., Case Law Alerts - 2nd Quarter 2013
Law Alerts April 11, 2013
In this legal malpractice action, the attorney-defendant appealed a jury verdict entered against her in favor of the plaintiff, her former client in underlying divorce and support proceedings. The plaintiff alleged that the attorney-defendant failed..., Case Law Alerts - 2nd Quarter 2013
Defense Digest Article March 1, 2013
By Nicole M. Ehrhart, Esq.*   Key Points: Superior Court expands damages in legal malpractice actions in assumpsit. Potential damages now may include actual losses sustained.   Albeit in a non-precedential decision, the..., Defense Digest, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2013
Defense Digest Article March 1, 2013
By John L. Slimm, Esq.*   Key Points: Litigation privilege limited by New Jersey court. Litigation privilege does not apply to a client's malpractice claims against his/her attorney where it is claimed that the attorney..., Defense Digest, Vol. 19, No. 1, March 2013
Case Study February 8, 2013
Law Alerts January 24, 2013
On Friday, January 18, 2013, James E. Boasberg of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia granted a Motion for Summary Judgment in which the Court ruled that the IRS lacks statutory authority to promulgate or enforce the new...
Law Alerts January 11, 2013
The plaintiff’s complaint was dismissed on a motion based upon her failure to produce expert opinion regarding the standard of professional care applicable to the defendants in the course of their representation of plaintiff in the purchase of..., Case Law Alert - 1st Quarter 2013
Law Alerts January 11, 2013
The plaintiff noticed an advertisement to invest in a real estate project located in Vietnam. The advertising newspaper and person introduced the plaintiff to two other co-investors and attorney Michael Song, Esq. for the purpose of his acting as..., Case Law Alert - 1st Quarter 2013
Law Alerts January 11, 2013
The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly dismissed the plaintiff's, Buchanan, claim for malpractice against the attorneys who represented him in the underlying matter. Buchanan represented the Kerrs in filing for bankruptcy...., Case Law Alert - 1st Quarter 2013

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

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