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Timothy J. McMahon 
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Managing Attorney, Harrisburg and Williamsport, PA Offices
Chair, Trucking & Transportation Litigation Practice Group
phone (717) 651-3505
fax (717) 651-9630
email 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. Prior to graduation, Tim had begun his career with Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin as a law clerk. He has remained employed with the firm since 1987 and is 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 and is currently the managing attorney of our Harrisburg and Williamsport locations.

Significant Representative Matters:

  • 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
    Bar Admissions:
    Pennsylvania, 1988
    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


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


    Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (2005, 2006, 2009)


    Professional Associations and Memberships:
    Cumberland County Bar Association


    Dauphin County Bar Association


    Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member, Committee on Professional Liability


    Pennsylvania Defense Institute


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