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Thomas P. Wagner 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Shareholder
phone (215) 575-4562
fax (215) 575-0856
email tpwagner@mdwcg.com

Thomas P. Wagner is a litigation and trial lawyer with more than 25 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.

In 2006, and again in 2007, Mr. Wagner was voted by his peers as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania, a state with more than 56,000 attorneys. He was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer four times in succession. Mr. Wagner served as the 1999-2000 President of the Temple American Inn of Court in Philadelphia. 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 is a member of both the Defense Research Institute and the Pennsylvania Defense Institute. 

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 Group.  He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York.

Year Joined Organization:
2007
Areas of Practice:
Casualty and Premises Liability
Product Liability
Municipal Liability
Bar Admissions:
New York, 1978
Pennsylvania, 1978
Education:
St. John's University School of Law, Jamaica, New York, 1977
J.D., Juris Doctor
Law Review: St. John's Law Review, Survey Editor, 1976 - 1977


Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, 1974
B.A.
Honors: Cum Laude
Major:  Politics


Published Works:
Sex Discrimination by Private Universities as State Action, 50 St. John's Law Review 316, 1976


Diversity Jurisdiction: Don't Let It Die, 32 FOR THE DEFENSE No. 8, August, 1990


Rule 11 and Removal of Cases, 32 FOR THE DEFENSE No. 3 Reprinted from COUNTERPOINT, July, 1989, March, 1990


New Developments in Res Ipsa Loquitur (Co-Author), COUNTERPOINT, July, 1991


Dillinger v. Caterpillar - Can the Plaintiff Do No Wrong?, COUNTERPOINT, July, 1992


Federal Civil Procedure Before Trial - Third Circuit, Senior Editor, Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, 1996


Classes/Seminars Taught:
The Law and Alternatives to Homologous Donation, Presented to The Greater Philadelphia Hospital Blood Bank Assn. & Philadelphia Medical Society, Philadelphia, May 1991


Litigation Experiences of a Blood Center, Presented to the American Society of Apheresi, Cambridge, Mass., April 1993


Selected Topics in Federal Preemption, Presented to the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Philadelphia, April 1996 and Hershey, PA, May 1995


Bad Faith and How To Avoid It, Presented to the Pennsylvania Medcial Society Liability Insurance Company, Harrisburg, PA, July 1996


The Patient Advocate in Clinical Trials, Annual Medical Device Product Liability Conference, Napa, CA, June 2006


Honors and Awards:
AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Pennsylvania Defense Institute, 1989 - Present


Temple Inn of Court
President, 1999-2000


National Judicial College, Reno, NV
Special Presenter


National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Mid-Atlantic Deposition Program
Faculty Member


Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, 1997 - 1999
Member of the Executive Board


Upper Darby Township
Member, Environmental Advisory Council


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



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