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Marshall Dennehey Plans Expansion in New York, New Jersey
Thomas A. Brophy, President & CEO of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, is pleased to announce an agreement with James P. Connors, Managing Partner of Jones Hirsch Connors Miller & Bull P.C., wherein Jones Hirsch lawyers will become part of Marshall Dennehey. The pending joinder is expected to be finalized by the middle of 2014.
Christopher Block Elected Chair of Real Estate Committee at Professional Liability Defense Federation
Christopher B. Block, special counsel in the Roseland office of Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, has been elected Chair of the Real Estate Committee of the Professional Liability Defense Federation (PLDF). Founded in 2007, the PLDF is a national, not-for-profit organization for attorneys, claims professionals and risk management specialists to share expertise and information helpful to the successful defense of professional liability claims.
Marshall Dennehey Announces New Shareholders, Special Counsel
Marshall Dennehey announced today that 16 attorneys, nearly half of them women, were elected shareholders of the firm at the annual shareholders' meeting held December 9 in Philadelphia. The new shareholders, categorized by office, are as follows.
Ronda O'Donnell to Lead Employment Law Practice Group
Marshall Dennehey announced today that Ronda K. O'Donnell has been named Chair of the Employment Law Practice Group in the firm's Professional Liability Department. She will replace Thomas C. DeLorenzo, practice group leader and longtime firm shareholder, when he retires on December 31.
Marshall Dennehey Named a 2014 Go-To Law Firm® for Fortune 500® Companies
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin has been named among Corporate Counsel magazine's 2014 Go-To Law Firms® for America's 500 largest companies. Firms were recognized for providing exceptional work to Fortune 500® clients.
Defense of police pursuit case results in change to state law.
Obtained summary judgment, affirmed on appeal in the Commonwealth Court, for a police officer, his supervisor and the police department in a case involving police pursuit that ended in a fatal crash. The case changed the law in Pennsylvania, as the court held for the first time, "There is no duty of care to passengers whose existence, or whose connection to the driver and the conduct for which he is being pursued, is unknown to the officer. Because there was no duty of care, summary judgment was appropriate as a matter of law."