Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, a professional corporation, 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 500 lawyers working out of 20 offices throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Florida and New York.
We are exclusively a defense litigation firm with our professional practices encompassing a broad spectrum of litigation matters. Members of our firm have considerable experience handling high-profile and complex litigation, including class actions and mass tort matters.
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 have handled many litigation matters in neighboring states including West Virginia, Connecticut, Maryland and Kentucky.
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. 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.
Our firm is very familiar with the unique needs of the members of the alternative risk transfer communities, including risk retention groups, captives and specialized insurance and reinsurance programs.
We are very proud of the remarkable level of our internal stability. Many of the attorneys among our shareholders have been with us for a considerable number of years. In numerous instances, this is the only law firm for which these men and women have chosen to work.
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.