Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Year Joined Organization: 1997

Lawyer Overview

Jon provides legal counsel to professionals including attorneys, accountants, insurance brokers, real estate brokers and financial advisors. He defends a wide range of professional litigation matters including legal malpractice, accounting malpractice, wrongful use of civil process, abuse of process, negligence and breach of contract. Jon also defends matters involving premises liability, automobile liability, product liability, insurance bad faith and trade secrets. As an athletic coach, Jon brings unique experience to cases he has handled involving the representation of golf clubs and professional athletic organizations and players in litigation.

In 1993, Jon graduated from Lafayette College and subsequently attended Villanova School of Law where he achieved his Juris Doctorate in 1996. During his law school years, he spent the summer clerking for the Honorable Samuel Salus, II from the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas and for the Chief Magistrate Judge Powers in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Following graduation from Villanova School of Law in 1996, Jon worked as a law clerk to the Honorable Albert W. Sheppard, Jr. of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Outside of his law practice Jon serves on the Executive Board of the Richie Ashburn Foundation, which raises funds to provide over sixteen free baseball camps and clinics yearly to children throughout the Philadelphia and suburban area. Furthermore, Jon works with the Foundation to raise funds to support blind and visually impaired children to play "beep" baseball. Currently, Jon also serves as an assistant baseball coach at the University of Pennsylvania and formerly he was a member of the Board of Trustees at Germantown Academy. He has also assisted in the political campaign for a current state representative in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

For the years 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, Jon was selected "Super Lawyer Pennsylvania Rising Star."

Significant Representative Matters

Areas of Practice

• Professional Liability
• Premises Liability
• Product Liability
• Automobile Liability
• Sports & Entertainment Liability

West Practice Categories

Professional Responsibility, Premises Liability -- Defense, Products Liability Law, Professional Malpractice Law, Medical Malpractice

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 1996
• New Jersey, 1996

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Richie Ashburn Foundation, Executive Board Member

Honors and Awards

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

Past Employment Positions

• Honorable Samuel Salus, II from the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, Summer Clerk
• Chief Magistrate Judge Powers in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Summer Clerk
• Honorable Albert W. Sheppard, Jr. of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Law Clerk, 1996

Education

• Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 1996
  J.D.
• Lafayette College, 1993
  B.A.

Published Works

• Statute of Limitations When One Leaves the Commonwealth
• Procedural Difficulties with New Discovery Rule
• Effect of Fiorantino on Legal Malpractice Claims for Breach of Contract
• Legal Malpractice Defense that a Claim is Premature
• Pennsylvania Superior Court Rules On Statute of Limitations For Defendants Who Leave The Commonwealth, Defense Digest, Vol. 3, No. 5, 1997
• New Procedures Complicate Production of Documents By A Non-Party, Defense Digest, Vol. 3, No. 6, 1997
• Obtaining Records With Fewer Headaches, (Co-Author), Defense Digest, Vol. 4, No. 6, 1998
• The Witness Immunity Doctrine Does Not Preclude Experts From Being Sued for Professional Malpractice, Professional Liability Underwriting Society, PLUS Journal, May, 2000
• Court Recognizes Misconduct When Jurors Seek Out Their Own Expert Opinion, Defense Digest, Vol. 11, No. 2, June, 2005

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2750

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com