Attorney Profiles
Timothy J. McMahon Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
| Shareholder Managing Attorney, Harrisburg, PA Office Chair, Trucking & Transportation Litigation Practice Group | |
| phone | (717) 651-3505 |
| fax | (717) 651-9630 |
| tjmcmahon@mdwcg.com | |
Tim has developed significant experience in defense of multiple litigation areas, including trucking and transportation litigation, professional liability, and products liability. He has represented a substantial number of commercial trucking companies, as well as owner operators. Tim serves as the Chair of the firm's Trucking & Transportation Litigation Practice Group.
For more than 15 years, Tim has represented a national provider of physical therapy and rehabilitation in cases ranging from class actions to in-patient, out-patient, and ambulatory surgery care. With 20 years experience in defending product liability litigation representing major manufacturers, Tim has also represented specialty manufacturers of both industrial and consumer products.
Tim is a graduate of Richard Stockton College. He attended the Dickinson School of Law where he received his Juris Doctorate Degree in 1988. Tim began his career with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in 1987 as a law clerk and is now the managing shareholder of the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, office.
Tim has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for 2005, 2006 and 2009 in the area of Civil Litigation Defense.
Significant Representative Matters:
- Represented a subcontractor in a dispute concerning the design specifications and construction methods used in building a multi-level parking facility. In that context, engaged an expert architect and successfully defended the work performed by the subcontractor client.
- Successfully defended through trial a product liability action involving catastrophic head injuries sustained by a 5-year-old child where potential exposure was in excess of $5 million.
- Successfully resolved a multi-party, complex legal malpractice action involving more than 10 years of underlying litigation over a family trust with a gross value in excess of $10 million.
- Tried to defense verdict, after a six-week jury trial, an action involving a quadriplegic, persistent vegetative state plaintiff in a multi-party medical malpractice matter.
- Year Joined Organization:
- 1987
- Areas of Practice:
- Trucking and Transportation
- Professional Liability
- Products Liability Law
- Construction Litigation
- Education:
- The Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
1988
J.D. - Stockton State College,
1984
B.A.
- Published Works:
- Negligent Spoliation of Evidence: A New Tort?, Defense Digest, December, 1995
- Spoliation of Evidence, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, April, 1997
- Classes/Seminars Taught:
- Annual Lecturer - Legal Malpractice Avoidance, Pennsylvania Bar Association Professional Liability Committee
- Releases and Settlements - Tactics, Tips and Techniques, 2007 PAMIC Summit
- Lecturer, Spoliation of Evidence









