Attorney Profile
Taniesha K. Salmons
Areas of Practice
Contact Info
Overview
Taniesha is a member of the Casualty Department handling litigation involving premises and product liability. She represents major grocery retailers, condominium and homeowners’ associations, business owners and private property owners in premises liability matters.
Taniesha additionally defends manufacturers and distributors of tools, automatic doors, machinery and other heavy industrial equipment in product liability matters. She also assists in the defense of fire loss cases and complex product liability cases involving catastrophic losses.
Taniesha is a two-time graduate of the “U,” University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, where she received both her bachelor’s and juris doctor, achieving the honor of Dean’s Scholar.
After law school, Taniesha joined a boutique plaintiff's firm in the Brickell neighborhood of Miami, Florida, where she litigated in the areas of employment discrimination, admiralty and personal injury law. She relocated to the Philadelphia area, originally joining Marshall Dennehey in the Philadelphia office as an associate in the Casualty Department in 2005. Taniesha took time off from the practice of law to build and support her growing family and returned to Marshall Dennehey in 2022.
A certified arbitrator in Philadelphia, Taniesha is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, The United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the State of New Jersey, the United States District Court of New Jersey, the State of Florida, and the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida.
Results
Obtained defense verdict, sitting second chair, in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff alleged that she tripped and fell on a defect on our client's stairs outside of a row home property in the Olney section of Philadelphia. While waiting to enter the home the women thought they heard a gunshot and took off running down the steps. The plaintiff fell and sustained a tibial plateau fracture and a meniscal tear. She had surgery and permanent hardware inserted in her leg. She was unable to return to her job for several months and had almost $58,000 in past medical bills and lost wages on the board. There was a chunk of the stairs missing, but neither the plaintiff nor the witnesses could say definitively what caused her fall. The jury found negligence but no causation after less than an hour of deliberations.