Marshall Dennehey, P.C.

Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

• Telephone: 203-714-4560
• Website: https://marshalldennehey.com

Established: 1962

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About Us

Unparalleled Growth

Marshall Dennehey, P.C., was founded in 1962. We are very gratified that our growth, much of which has been client-driven, enables us to make available to our clients more than 500 lawyers working out of 20 offices throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Florida and New York.

Exclusively Defense

We are exclusively a defense litigation firm with our professional practices encompassing a broad spectrum of litigation matters.

Complex Litigation Experience

Members of our firm have considerable experience handling high-profile and complex litigation, including class actions and mass tort matters.

Regional Presence

The regional presence of our firm affords many advantages to our clients. One client detailed some of these advantages in the publication Of Counsel, where he expressed appreciation of our firm's strategic locations in areas where his company has stores. He praised our ability to handle a wide variety of claims, ranging from fall downs and car damage claims to complex product liability matters. In addition to the six states in which we maintain our offices, we handle many litigation matters in West Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky.

Regional Office Statistics

Nearly 60 percent of our attorneys work in our 19 satellite offices. This statistic underscores the importance of our regional offices to our clients, as well as to our firm. Clients report to us that they are comfortable entering into region-wide arrangements for our representation knowing that we are well staffed in these offices. All of our offices are linked via an Intranet and a firm-wide file management system and library. The attorneys at these locations are native to the area, have a good rapport with and knowledge of local judges and opposing attorneys, and are familiar with the population of potential jurors.

Attorneys Selected by Clients

With more than 500 attorneys on staff, clients have a great deal of legal talent from which to choose. As one of the firm's clients said in Of Counsel, "Their attitude is tremendous. If I say I want a particular attorney on a matter, I have that attorney. If I say I want a conference with the attorney, a conference is arranged."

Minority Hiring

In surveys conducted by The National Law Journal and The Legal Intelligencer, our firm was identified, both on a national and a regional level, as one of the leading large law firms in the categories of minority hiring and advancement. We are especially proud of our minority shareholders and their vitally important roles in the management of our firm.

Peer Ratings

The experience of our firm and our attorneys has been recognized by our peers. At the present time, we have a significantly large number of peer-review rated attorneys as recognized by Martindale-Hubbell, a LexisNexis company. The lawyers of our firm are also recognized in Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys, as published by AM Best Company. We also have in our ranks lawyers who have been elected as Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers and Fellows of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. In addition, many of our lawyers appear in the Super Lawyers publications in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, New York and Florida. As well, a number of our lawyers have also been listed in Best Lawyers in America.

Regional & National Coordinating Counsel

We are privileged to serve as Regional Coordinating Counsel and National Coordinating Counsel for a number of major corporations.

Internal Auditing

In 1985, the firm started an internal auditing program that draws upon the expertise of former claims managers and senior attorneys. This program received national attention in an article about innovative law firm management practices appearing in The National Law Journal.

Successful Business Model

In an article appearing in The Legal Intelligencer dealing with the challenges and opportunities for insurance defense firms, it was stated that our firm has clearly dominated the Philadelphia marketplace. In support of that statement, it was noted that the firm has grown dramatically in the past decade and has maintained a healthy shareholder-associate ratio. It was further discussed that major insurance carriers are attracted to our firm through its extensive use of technology as well as the numerous offices we have established throughout the Mid-Atlantic region and Florida. A noted legal consultant with Altman Weil, recommended in this article that some other defense litigation law firms "need to adopt the Marshall Dennehey model" in response to the changing needs and expectations of the insurance industry.

Central Diary System

All of the litigation files entrusted to us are on an electronic diary system that is designed to ensure that action has been taken by the handling attorney on all of his or her files within the past 90 days. Our monthly monitoring of this program discloses a 97-percent compliance rate, and any need for updated attorney reporting or action is immediately addressed. We have further refined this system o provide alerts to our attorneys when a certain percentage of the agreed-to litigation budget has been reached, affording the client and the handling attorney the opportunity to consider the options open to them at that juncture.

Legal Research Supervision

We have a very focused and cost-efficient approach to legal research. Our Manager of Legal Research and Legal Information Services is a practicing attorney well-versed in law firm technology and efficient research techniques.

Measured Performance

It is significant to note that our firm's Case Disposition Program enables us to develop statistics reflecting levels of performance in such areas as case cycle times, indemnity payments made, litigation expenses and case outcomes, which can be broken down by law type and jurisdiction.

Breaking Legal Developments

Since 1992, we have provided our clients with our firm's comprehensive newsletter, Defense Digest. During that time, we have never missed a deadline, ensuring that our clients can consistently rely upon us for advice about legal developments, as well as giving them the benefit of our analysis and practical recommendations. We also advise our clients of breaking legal developments through our quarterly electronic newsletter Law Alerts, and provide our workers' compensation clients with a monthly update, What's Hot in Workers' Comp.

ADR Commitment

We are strongly committed to alternative dispute resolution vehicles. We are an original signatory to the Law Firm Policy Statement of the Center for Public Resources, Inc.'s Initiatives on Alternatives to Litigation.

Published Works

The expertise and professional commitment of our attorneys is evidenced by the fact that they have had hundreds of articles published in such publications as For The Defense, Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Quarterly, Pennsylvania Bar Association Quarterly, The Philadelphia Legal Intelligencer, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Journal of Healthcare Risk Management, The PLUS Journal, Pennsylvania CPA Journal, The Florida Bar News, New Jersey Law Journal, Hospital & Healthcare News, Daily Business Review, Financial Advisor Magazine, Litigation Management, New Jersey Defense, National Law Journal, New York Law Journal, Ohio Lawyer, Orlando Medical News, The Florida Defender, Risk & Insurance and Risk Management. To see more of our published articles, visit our Publications page.

Alternative Fee Arrangements

Significantly, the several large annual contract fee and global contract fee arrangements into which we have entered with some of our larger clients have been renewed on an annual basis, clearly evidencing that these arrangements are beneficial to our clients and sufficiently profitable for our firm. Other forms of alternative pricing are also available.

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Personnel Information

Managing Attorney

Charles T. Gura

Shareholder; Supervising Attorney, Health Care Department - New York & Connecticut Offices

New Haven, CT

• E-Mail: ctgura@mdwcg.com

Practice Areas

• Health Care Liability
• Long-Term Care Liability
• General Liability
• Asbestos and Mass Tort Litigation
• Aviation and Complex Litigation
• New York Construction and Labor Law
• Construction Injury Litigation

Admitted

• Connecticut, 1997
• New York
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Additional Biographical Details:

Hudson Valley Magazine, Top Lawyer, 2022; Classes/Seminars Taught: "Civil Litigation State of Affairs - The Impact of COVID-19 in New York and Connecticut & What's Next," Marshall Dennehey Client Webinar, May 2021; "New York Case Law Update," Health Care Law Seminar, Marshall Dennehey, November 9, 2016

Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association
• New York State Medical Defense Bar Association

Publications:

• Author: "Lavern's Law and the Discovery Rule in Failure to Diagnose Cancer Cases in New York State," Defense Digest, December 2018, Vol. 24, No. 4

Education:

• State University of New York at Oswego, B.A., 1990
• New York Law School, J.D., 1997

Resident Shareholders

Daniel S. Corde

New Haven, CT

• E-Mail: dscorde@mdwcg.com

Practice Areas

• General Liability
• Construction Injury Litigation
• Product Liability
• Aviation and Complex Litigation
• Premises and Retail Liability
• Trucking and Transportation Liability
• Asbestos and Mass Tort Litigation
• Automobile Liability

Admitted

• New York, 1987
• Connecticut, 2003
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1989
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1997

Memberships:

• Connecticut and New York State Bar Associations
• Association of the Bar of the County of New York
• Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association

Certifications:

• FAA Certified Pilot

Education:

• Hamilton College, B.A., 1983
• Suffolk University Law School, J.D., 1986

R. David Lane, Jr.

New Haven, CT

• E-Mail: rdlane@mdwcg.com

Practice Areas

• Privacy and Data Security
• Intellectual Property, Technology and Media Litigation
• Insurance Services - Coverage and Bad Faith Litigation
• Consumer Financial Services Litigation & Compliance
• Miscellaneous Professional Liability
• Appellate Advocacy and Post-Trial Practice
• Commercial Litigation

Admitted

• Florida, 2008
• New York, 2010
• Connecticut, 2020
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, 2011
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 2016
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, 2021

Additional Biographical Details:

Certificate in International and Comparative Law (2007)

Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association (IP Section)
• International Association of Privacy Professionals (CIPP/US)

Publications:

• Author: "Legal Obligations When a Data Breach Invokes the Laws of Multiple Jurisdictions," New York Law Journal, July 12, 2019
• "Are Hackers Secretly Stealing Your Practice?" The Legal Intelligencer, Cybersecurity Supplement (page 8), June 23, 2015

Education:

• University of Florida, B.A. (magna cum laude), 2004
• University of Florida, Levin College of Law, J.D. (cum laude), 2007

Honors:

University of Florida International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team; Competed, Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot

Language:

• French

Keith S. McCabe

New Haven, CT

• E-Mail: ksmccabe@mdwcg.com

Practice Areas

• Automobile Liability
• Premises and Retail Liability
• Hospitality and Liquor Liability
• General Liability

Admitted

• Connecticut, 1991

Additional Biographical Details:

Classes/Seminars Taught: "Legal Issues in NY CT FL & DE," Marshall Dennehey Client Presentation, February 16, 2023

Education:

• Trinity College, B.A., 1988
• Quinnipiac University School of Law, J.D., 1991

Resident Associate

• Caroline E. Skelton

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