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Practice Areas: Appellate Practice; Civil Litigation

Additional Information: John is a highly-experienced appellate attorney who serves as Chair of the firm's seven-attorney Appellate Advocacy & Post-Trial Practice Group. He has litigated more than 300 appeals in state and federal appellate courts. John's diverse practice includes cases involving professional malpractice, civil rights claims, product liability, toxic torts, construction accidents, employment claims, and premises liability. In addition to litigating cases in the appellate courts, he is actively engaged in developing and implementing both trial and appellate strategy, prosecuting and defending pre-trial, trial, and post-trial motions, and acting as appellate counsel on trial teams in high-exposure cases. John also frequently speaks on appellate topics and has submitted amicus curiae briefs to appellate courts on behalf of various organizations. Along with former Pennsylvania Superior Court Judge Patrick Tamilia, John was commissioned by the Superior Court in 1995 to draft a comprehensive history of the Court to commemorate its Centennial Anniversary. The book, entitled Keystone of Justice: The Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1895-1995, was published by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2000 and is one of the nation's leading studies of a state appellate court. In 2008 and 2009, John was recognized by Law & Politics/Philadelphia Magazine as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in the area of appellate practice, a distinction applied to five percent of Pennsylvania attorneys based upon a peer selection and evaluation process. In 2009, John was also selected to Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition.

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Firm Members: Eric Brown Charles Craven