Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Year Joined Organization: 2007

Languages

• French

Lawyer Overview

Mary C. Doherty concentrates her practice on the defense of casualty and product liability cases. In particular, Mary handles manufacturing defect, design defect and failure to warn cases against medical device manufacturers in both state and federal courts. Mary also handles premises liability and casualty cases in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Mary gained valuable litigation experience as an associate in the class action group of a Philadelphia defense firm. While attending Villanova University School of Law, Mary was a member of the Moot Court Executive Board and won two national awards for her legal writing skills, including Best Brief in the National Juvenile Law Competition and Second Place Brief in the National Product Liability Competition. Mary also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Carolyn Engel Temin, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, during her second year at Villanova.

Mary currently serves on the editorial board of Young Lawyer, a publication of The Legal Intelligencer, the oldest daily legal newspaper in the United States. In addition, Mary is a member of the American Cancer Society Philadelphia Chapter of the Women's Board Center City Corps. and volunteers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. 

Significant Representative Matters

Areas of Practice

• Product Liability (Medical Devices)
• Casualty Liability
• Premises Liability

West Practice Categories

Premises Liability -- Defense, Products Liability Law, Medical Products & Devices

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 2004
• New Jersey, 2004
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2006
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2008

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Association of Trial Lawyers of America
• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Pennsylvania Defense Institute
• Philadelphia Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Winner Best Brief - National Juvenile Law Moot Court Competition
• Second Place Brief - National Products Liability Moot Court Competition

Past Employment Positions

• Rawle & Henderson
• Swartz Campbell

Education

• Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania, 2004
  J.D.
• Franklin & Marshall College, 2001
  A.B.
  Major: Government

Published Works

• Ninth Annual National Juvenile Moot Court Competition Winning Brief: In re Guardianship of Gary G., Sam Endicott et al. v. Jimmy Gaines, Mary C. Doherty & Martha F. Reilly, 4 Whittier Journal of Child and Family Advocacy 1 (2004)

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2884

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com