Brady, Paul R. III

Current Employment Position(s)

Shareholder

Year Joined Organization: 1980

Lawyer Overview

Paul R. Brady's primary area of concentration has been in personal injury catastrophic loss cases. He has defended hundreds of cases in a three decade long career involving burn injuries, paralysis, brain injuries, loss of limb(s) and death. He has represented a wide range of clients that include product manufacturers, construction companies, building owners, truck companies, elevator companies, and dram shops, and numerous other business entities.

In particular, he is adept in reviewing and analyzing catastrophic loss cases on short notice before trial for insurance companies and private enterprises and securing experts, as well as trying or otherwise resolving the catastrophic loss with full involvement of the insured.

Paul is a shareholder at the firm and is among the firm's most experienced trial attorneys having started with the firm in 1980 just after a judicial clerkship. As a member of the product liability department, he has represented clients who manufacture or sell aerial lift devices, elevators, industrial machinery, consumer products, clothing manufacturers and retailers, automotive and marine products to name a few.
 
His construction defense work involves representation of owners, construction managers, general contractors, subcontractors, and tenants.

Paul also handles a wide array of automobile accidents and trip and fall accidents.

Paul is an Honors graduate of LaSalle University. Following graduation from college he attended Loyola University New Orleans School of Law where he achieved his Juris Doctorate. He then clerked for James C. Crumlish, Jr., President Judge of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

Significant Representative Matters:

• Defense verdict as the only defendant in the burning death of four children. (premises liability)

• Defense verdict for elevator and escalator manufacturers.

• No damage award in a rear end accident handled in the federal court of Pennsylvania.

• Summary judgment in a construction case involving a paralyzed worker on the basis of an ambiguous contract.

• Extensive knowledge in dram shop, flammable fabric, forklift, material handling equipment, smoke detectors, and electrical fires to name a few.

Areas of Practice

• Products Liability
• Premises Liability
• Construction
• General Liability
• Elevator / Escalator Accident
• Liquor Liability
• Motor Vehicle

West Practice Categories

Motor Vehicle, Products Liability Law, Personal Injury -- Defense, Construction Law

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1978
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

Past Employment Positions

• Commonwealth Court, Law Clerk, 1978 - 1980

Education

• Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1978
  J.D.
• La Salle University, 1974
  Honors: cum laude

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2777

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com