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Marshall Dennehey announced today that James H. Cole has been appointed Director of the firm’s 140+ attorney Professional Liability Department and Sunny Marie Sparano has been appointed Assistant Director. Cole is succeeding Craig S. Hudson as department director as well as a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Hudson will remain with the firm in an Emeritus role.

Marshall Dennehey announced today that John J. Hare, chair of Marshall Dennehey’s Appellate Advocacy & Post-Trial Practice Group and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors, has been elected to the firm’s Executive Committee, effective January 1, 2026. Hare’s election took place at the firm’s annual shareholder meeting on December 9. He joins firm President & CEO, G.

Marshall Dennehey is pleased to announce that 16 attorneys have been elected shareholders of the firm effective Jan. 1, 2026. Additionally, two attorneys have been promoted from associate to special counsel. These new shareholders and special counsel represent the firm’s four core departments – Casualty, Professional Liability, Health Care and Workers’ Compensation – and come from 11 of the firm’s 19 offices. 

Marshall Dennehey has been named a "2026 Best Law Firm" in multiple practice areas, both nationally and across numerous regions of the country, by Best Lawyers®. Nationally, the firm ranked in the practice areas of Litigation- Construction, Mass Tort Litigation/Class Action – Defendants, Insurance Law, and Commercial Litigation.    
 

Three attorneys from Marshall Dennehey— John “Jack” Delany, III, Chair of Marshall Dennehey’s Catastrophic Claims Litigation Practice Group, veteran medical malpractice shareholder Gary Samms, and John J. Hare, chair of the firm’s Appellate Advocacy and Post-Trial Practice Group—were featured presenters in a recent episode of A.M. Best’s Insurance Law Podcast.

Marshall Dennehey is strengthening its Pennsylvania workers’ compensation practice with the strategic additions of Perry D. Merlo as shareholder and Andrew W. Maffett as special counsel in the firm’s Harrisburg office. Both attorneys join from Lavery Law in Harrisburg, bringing deep experience and proven litigation success to the team.