Thomas P. Wagner is a litigation and trial lawyer with more than 30 years experience. He concentrates his practice on the defense of casualty and product liability cases, as well as the defense of municipalities. His practice is focused primarily on the state and federal courts of Eastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Wagner was twice voted by his peers as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania, a state with more than 56,000 attorneys. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer seven times in succession. He has written numerous articles and presentations on topics related to civil litigation. He also served as a senior editor of a three-volume guide to pre-trial practice in the Federal Courts of the Third Circuit published by Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing Company. He has served on the executive board of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, and he has been appointed as a Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. With strong ties to his community, Mr. Wagner is vice president of the Town Council in Upper Darby Township, PA, and a board member for the Upper Darby Industrial Development Authority. He has been a board member of the Delaware County Authority since 2001, and he served on the board of directors for Wheels of Wellness, a non profit organization, from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Wagner graduated cum laude from Fairfield University in 1974 with a Bachelor's Degree in Politics. He attended law school at St. John's University where he was an editor of the law review. Following law school, he served a clerkship with the Honorable J. William Ditter, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the law firm of Rawle & Henderson at the end of his clerkship in 1980, and served for over a decade on Rawle & Henderson's Executive Committee. Mr. Wagner joined Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in 2007 as a shareholder in the firm's casualty practice, and he now manages one of the three major casualty groups in Philadelphia. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York. Significant Representative Matters: · Philadelphia Zoo Fire Litigation - Successful representation of target defendant in catastrophic fire loss. · Artificial Heart Litigation - Achieved dismissal of client defendant in complex medical device product liability case. · Plunto v. Wallenstein - Defense verdict in multi-defendant civil rights trial. Year Joined Organization: 2007 Published Works: Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial - Third Circuit, Senior Editor, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, (3 Volumes), 1996 Rule 11 and Removal of Cases, 32 FOR THE DEFENSE No. 3 Reprinted from COUNTERPOINT, July, 1989, March, 1990 Diversity Jurisdiction: Don't Let It Die, 32 FOR THE DEFENSE No. 8, August, 1990 Dillinger v. Caterpillar - Can the Plaintiff Do No Wrong?, COUNTERPOINT, July, 1992 New Developments in Res Ipsa Loquitur, (Co-Author), COUNTERPOINT, July, 1991 Sex Discrimination by Private Universities as State Action, 50 St. John's Law Review 316, 1976 Classes/Seminars Taught: Trial Team Coach, Earle Mack School of Law, Drexel University, 2008 Managing Complex Litigation, National Judicial College, Reno, NV, May 2006 The Patient Advocate in Clinical Trials, Annual Medical Device Product Liability Conference, Napa, CA, June 2006 Selected Topics in Federal Preemption, Presented to the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia, April 1996 and Hershey, PA, May 1995 Litigation Experiences of a Blood Center, Presented to the American Society of Apheresis, Cambridge, Mass., April 1993 The Law and Alternatives to Homologous Donation, Presented to The Greater Philadelphia Hospital Blood Bank Assn. & Philadelphia Medical Society; Philadelphia, May 1991 Bad Faith and How To Avoid It, Presented to the Pennsylvania Medical Society Liability Insurance Company, Harrisburg, PA, July 1996 Honors and Awards: AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2004-2011; Top 100 Pennsylvania: 2006-2007; Top 100 Philadelphia: 2006-2007) Professional Associations and Memberships: Hearing Committee Member, serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Mid-Atlantic Deposition Program, Faculty Member Temple American Inn of Court, President, 1999 - 2000 Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, Executive Board, 1997 - 1999 Past Employment Positions: Rawle & Henderson LLP, General Partner Hon. J. William Ditter, Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Law Clerk, 1977 - 1980 |