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| | Address | | 1515 Market Street, 16th Floor | | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102-1916 | | (Philadelphia Co.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 215-864-9600 | | Fax: 215-864-9620; 864-9621; 864-9622 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.COGR.COM | | | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn, P.C. practices in the following areas of law:
Complex commercial and corporate litigation; class actions; white collar crime and internal corporate investigations; RICO actions and business torts; environmental and toxic tort litigation; products liability; employment law; health care law; complex torts; professional malpractice; copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition litigation; cable communications and Internet piracy law; construction litigation; antitrust; securities; and alternative dispute resolution (ADR). | Firm Profile:
Founded over twenty years ago, Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn, P.C. is a firm dedicated to providing first-rate litigation services to the country's leading businesses. Widely recognized for their skills as trial lawyers, one quarter of the firm's shareholders are Fellows of the American College of Trial Lawyers. In addition, the firm's roster includes the former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; the former U.S. Attorney and First Assistant U.S. Attorney for that district; a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers; faculty members of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy; two former Presidents of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Lawyers; the chief Assistant Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia; and many lawyers with decades of combined experience. | | Firm Size: 38 |
Other Office Locations of Conrad O'Brien Gellman & Rohn, P.C.
Cherry Hill, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
West Chester, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
| | William J. O'Brien (Member) admitted to bar, 1963, Pennsylvania. Education: LaSalle College (A.B., 1959); Villanova University (LL.B., 1962). Member, Executive Board and Faculty, The Academy of Advocacy, 1976—. Lecturer: American Law Institute-American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, 1983—. Adjunct Professor of Law, Master's Degree Program, Trial Advocacy, Temple University School of Law, 1993—. Diplomate, American Board of Trial Advocates. Member: International Association of Defense Counsel (Member: Medical Malpractice Committee; Products Liability Committee); Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (President, 1989-1990); Defense Research Institute. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Antitrust; Class Actions; AIDS Defense Litigation; Employment Discrimination Litigation; Mass Tort Actions; Environmental Cases; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Products Liability Litigation; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Legal Malpractice; Commercial Litigation; Professional Liability Litigation. Email: William J. O'Brien | | Nancy J. Gellman (Member) born Kansas City, Missouri, December 14, 1945; admitted to bar, 1971, Pennsylvania. Education: Bryn Mawr College (A.B., 1967); London School of Economics, London, England; Yale University (J.D., 1971). Fulbright Fellowship, 1967-1968. Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1984-1986. Law Clerk to Hon. Joseph S. Lord, III, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1971-1972. Member: American Law Institute; Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (Executive Committee, 1991-1995). Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers (Chair, Alternatives for Dispute Resolutions Committee 2004-2004). Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Employment Discrimination Litigation; Business Litigation; Class Actions; Antitrust; Insurance Coverage; Legal Malpractice; Complex Corporate Litigation; Professional Liability. Email: Nancy J. Gellman | | Louis C. Bechtle (Member) admitted to bar, 1955, Pennsylvania. Education: Temple University (B.S., 1951); Temple University School of Law (LL.B., 1954). Chief Judge Emeritus of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1972-2001 (Member, Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, 1994-2001). United State Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1969-1972; Assistant United States Attorney, 1956-1959. Adjunct Professor, Temple University School of Law, 1976-1993. Practice Areas: Multidistrict Litigation; Mass Tort Actions; Complex Commercial Litigation; Class Actions; Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR); Products Liability. Email: Louis C. Bechtle | | James J. Rohn (Member) born Manhasset, New York, December 21, 1950; admitted to bar, 1975, Pennsylvania. Education: Villanova University (B.A., 1972; J.D., 1975). Member, Villanova University Law Review, 1974-1975. Law Clerk to Hon. Louis C. Bechtle, U.S. District Court Judge, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1975-1977. First Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1983-1986 and Assistant U.S. Attorney, 1978-1983, U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Lecturer: Temple University School of Law, 1980-1983; Villanova University School of Law, 1983-1986. Member, Board of Directors, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, 1997—. Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers. (Also at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Office). Practice Areas: Complex Corporate Litigation; Class Actions; White Collar Crime and Internal Corporate Investigations; Legal Malpractice; Professional Liability; Securities. Email: James J. Rohn | | John (Jack) A. Guernsey (Member) born Wendell, Idaho, December 13, 1947; admitted to bar, 1977, Pennsylvania; 1985, New Jersey. Education: United States Military Academy (B.S., with distinction, 1969); Harvard University (J.D., 1977). [Capt., U.S. Army, 1969-1974; Col., ARNG, 1974-1999]. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Class Actions; Mass Torts; Restrictive Covenants; Product Liability; Employment Discrimination; Construction; Securities. Email: John (Jack) A. Guernsey | | Howard M. Klein (Member) born Mount Vernon, New York, May 11, 1955; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania. Education: State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A., 1977); Villanova University (J.D., magna cum laude, 1980). Member: Order of the Coif; St. Thomas Moore Society. Member and Research Projects Editor, Villanova Law Review, 1979-1980. Law Clerk to Hon. Alfred L. Luongo, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1980-1982. Member: Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (Past President). (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Environmental Litigation; Complex Torts; Securities Litigation; AIDS Defense Litigation; Personal Injury; Products Liability Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Commercial Cases; Legal Malpractice; Professional Liability; Construction. Email: Howard M. Klein | | Robert N. Feltoon (Member) born Audubon, New Jersey, May 22, 1954; admitted to bar, 1981, New York; 1990, Pennsylvania; 1996, New Jersey. Education: Drew University (B.A., 1976); John Marshall Law School (J.D., with highest distinction, 1980). Editor-in-Chief, The John Marshall Law Review, 1979-1980. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Business Torts; Class Actions; Complex Corporate Litigation; Employment; Intellectual Property. Email: Robert N. Feltoon | | Patricia M. Hamill (Member) born Baltimore, Maryland, January 26, 1959; admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania. Education: Bryn Mawr College (A.B., 1981); University of Maryland (J.D., with honors, 1986). Order of the Coif. Assistant Editor, Maryland Law Review, 1984-1986. Law Clerk to Hon. Frank J. Montemuro, Jr., Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1986-1988. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; Class Actions; Insurance Litigation; Grand Jury Investigations; White Collar Crime and Internal Corporate Investigations; Medicare and Medicaid Fraud Defense; General Litigation; Business Torts and RICO Actions; Securities. Email: Patricia M. Hamill | | Nicholas M. Centrella (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 7, 1966; admitted to bar, 1992, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Georgetown University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1988); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1992). Phi Beta Kappa. Associate Editor, Journal of International Business Law. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Complex Commercial Litigation; White Collar Criminal and Internal Corporate Investigations; AIDS Defense Litigation; Civil RICO Litigation; Products Liability; Trust Litigation; Professional Malpractice; Business Torts; Healthcare. Email: Nicholas M. Centrella | | Judson A. Aaron (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 9, 1958; admitted to bar, 1991, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Philadelphia College of Performing Arts (B.Mus., 1981); Temple University (J.D., 1990). Instructor, Trial Advocacy, Temple University Law School, 2000—. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Entertainment and the Arts; Commercial Litigation; White Collar Crime. Email: Judson A. Aaron | | Andrew C. Hanan (Member) born New York, N.Y., October 7, 1967; admitted to bar, 1993, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Education: Boston University (B.A., 1989; J.D., 1993). Member and Editor, American Journal of Law and Medicine, 1992-1993. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Class Actions; Mass Tort Actions; Toxic Torts; Products Liability Litigation; Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Commercial Litigation; Complex Corporate Litigation; Professional Liability. Email: Andrew C. Hanan | | Frank R. Emmerich Jr. (Member) born Abington, Pennsylvania, October 6, 1969; admitted to bar, 1995, Pennsylvania; 1996, New Jersey. Education: Cabrini College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1992); Widener University School of Law (J.D., 1995). Editor-in-Chief, Widener Journal of Public Law, 1994-1995. Law Clerk to Hon. Edwin M. Kosik, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1995-1997. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey and West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Offices). Practice Areas: Business Tort Litigation; Class Actions; Complex Torts; Intellectual Property; Products Liability. Email: Frank R. Emmerich Jr. | | Paul J. Greco (Member) born May 30, 1964; admitted to bar, 1989, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.S.E., 1986); Columbia University School of Law (J.D., 1989). Practice Areas: Litigation; Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR); Business Torts and RICO Actions; Complex Torts; Employment; Healthcare; Securities. Email: Paul J. Greco | | Helen J. Esbenshade (Member) born Coatesville, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1957; admitted to bar, 1985, Pennsylvania. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.S., with distinction, 1979); Villanova University (J.D., 1985). Law Clerk, Honorable Alexander Endy, Chester County Court of Common Pleas, West Chester, Pennsylvania. (Also at West Chester Office). Practice Areas: Municipal Law; Municipal Finance; Real Estate; Land Use; Eminent Domain; Complex Corporate Litigation. Email: Helen J. Esbenshade | | Kevin Dooley Kent (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 12, 1975; admitted to bar, 2000, Pennsylvania and New Jersey; 2006, England and Wales as Solicitor. Education: Boston College (B.A., 1997); Vanderbilt University (J.D., 2000). Member, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. Law Clerk to the Hon. Louis C. Bechtle, Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2000-2001. Member: Philadelphia and American Bar Associations; Law Society of England and Wales; Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey and West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Offices). Practice Areas: RICO; Class Actions; Fiduciary Litigation; Complex Commercial Litigation; Employment Litigation; White Collar Crime; Professional Liability. Email: Kevin Dooley Kent | | Louis W. Fryman (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1935; admitted to bar, 1962, Pennsylvania. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 1957); Villanova University School of Law (J.D., 1962). Author: "The Play's the Thing," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Summer 2000. Member, Academy of Advocacy, Beasley School of Law, Temple University, 1970—. Chair, Senior Lawyers Professional and Public Service Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association, 2006-2007. Chair, Judicial Council of the Third Judicial Circuit, Lawyers Advisory Committee, 2005—. American College of Trial Lawyers, 1984—; Regent, 1997-2001; International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1999—. Member: Philadelphia Bar Association. Practice Areas: Litigation; White Collar Crime; Criminal Defense. Email: Louis W. Fryman | | Patrick L. Meehan (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1955; admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania. Education: Bowdoin College (B.A., 1978); Temple University (J.D., 1986). United States Attorney, E.D. Pennsylvania, 2001-2008. District Attorney, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1996-2001. Attorney Generals Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys, 2003-2007. President, Corporate Fraud Task Force, 2003-2008. Member: Delaware County Bar Association; Pennsylvania Supreme Court Criminal Procedures Rules Committee. Practice Areas: White Collar Crime; Corporate Commercial Law; Health Care Compliance; Internal Corporate Investigations. Email: Patrick L. Meehan | | Jeannette M. Brian (Member) born Easton, Pennsylvania, May 11, 1950; admitted to bar, 1993, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Pittsburgh (B.A., 1972); Northwestern University (M.A., 1973); State University of New York at Buffalo (J.D., summa cum laude, 1992). Phi Beta Kappa. Member: Philadelphia (Member, Women's Rights Section) and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Business Torts; Class Actions; Complex Corporate Litigation. Email: Jeannette M. Brian | | OF COUNSEL | | K. Robert Conrad (Founder of the Firm) (Founder of Firm) (Retired). | | Alan Paul Novak (Of Counsel) born Coatesville, Pennsylvania, August 29, 1949; admitted to bar, 1975, Pennsylvania. Education: Ursinus College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1971); Villanova University (J.D., 1975). Member, Villanova University Law Review. Solicitor: Chester County Industrial Development Authority; Borough of Downingtown; Borough of South Coatesville; West Sadsbury Zoning Hearing Board; City of Coatesville Authority. Special Counsel to Chester County. Member: Chester County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. (Also at West Chester Office). Practice Areas: Probate; Estate Planning; Real Estate; Municipal and Zoning; Litigation; Labor Law; Government Relations; White Collar Crime and Internal Corporate Investigations. Email: Alan Paul Novak | | Deborah J. Krabbendam (Of Counsel) born Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, May 29, 1961; admitted to bar, 1984, Pennsylvania; 1986, New Jersey. Education: Covenant College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981); Rutgers University (J.D., highest honors, 1984). Articles Editor, Rutgers Law Journal, 1982-1984. Law Clerk, Hon. Alfred L. Luongo, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1984-1986. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Products Liability; Personal Injury Litigation; Employment Litigation; Complex Corporate Litigation; Class Actions. Email: Deborah J. Krabbendam | | Jonathan K.M. Crawford (Of Counsel) born New York, N.Y., June 9, 1957; admitted to bar, 1992, New York; 1999, Pennsylvania. Education: Dartmouth College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981); Harvard University (J.D., cum laude, 1990). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Insurance Litigation; Class Actions; Complex Corporate Litigation. Email: Jonathan K.M. Crawford | | Matthew H. Haverstick (Of Counsel) born Lancaster, Pennsylvania, November 7, 1969; admitted to bar, 1997, New York; 2000, Pennsylvania. Education: Bucknell University (B.A., 1992); Fordham University (J.D., 1996). Member, Moot Court Board. Associate Editor, Fordham Law Review, 1995-1996. (Also at West Chester and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Offices). Languages: German. Practice Areas: Litigation; Securities Arbitration. Email: Matthew H. Haverstick | | Jacquelyn J. Ager (Of Counsel) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 11, 1970; admitted to bar, 1995, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Ursinus College (B.S., 1992); American University (J.D., cum laude, 1995). Order of the Coif. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Contracts; Employment Law; Complex Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Legal Malpractice; Products Liability; Commercial Litigation; Health Care Litigation. Email: Jacquelyn J. Ager | | ASSOCIATES | | Vincent T. Cieslik (Associate) born Stratford, New Jersey, February 2, 1972; admitted to bar, 1997, New Jersey; 1998, Pennsylvania. Education: St. Joseph's University (B.S., 1994); Rutgers University Law School, Camden (J.D., 1997). (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Email: Vincent T. Cieslik | | Colleen McCook Johns (Associate) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 22, 1971; admitted to bar, 1999, Pennsylvania. Education: Villanova University (B.A., 1996); John Marshall Law School (J.D., 1999). Email: Colleen McCook Johns | | Lorie K. Dakessian (Associate) born May 23, 1975; admitted to bar, 2000, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Michigan (B.A., 1997); Boston College (J.D., 2000). (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Email: Lorie K. Dakessian | | P. Connell McNulty (Associate) born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 3, 1969; admitted to bar, 2001, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Temple University (B.A., 1991; J.D., 2001); Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (M.Phil., 1995). (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Email: P. Connell McNulty | | Mark E. Seiberling (Associate) born Pottsville, Pennsylvania, October 3, 1977; admitted to bar, 2003, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: LaSalle University (B.A., maxima cum laude, 2000); Villanova University (J.D., cum laude, 2003). Managing Editor, Villanova Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 2002-2003. Law Clerk to Honorable Sandra Schultz Newman, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 2003-2005. (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Email: Mark E. Seiberling | | Doran Bowe (Associate) born New York, N.Y., July 21, 1976; admitted to bar, 2003, New Hampshire; 2007, New Jersey. (Not admitted in Pennsylvania). Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 1998; J.D., 2003). Member: New Hampshire Bar Association. Email: Doran Bowe | | Aaron C. Starr (Associate) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14, 1979; admitted to bar, 2004, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Gettysburg College (B.A., cum laude, 2001); Rutgers School of Law, Camden (J.D., 2004). (Also at Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office). Email: Aaron C. Starr | | Andrew S. Gallinaro (Associate) born Boston, Massachusetts, March 15, 1980; admitted to bar, 2005, Pennsylvania. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 2002); Boston College (J.D., 2005). Email: Andrew S. Gallinaro | | Christopher Coval (Associate) born Abington, Pennsylvania, 1978; admitted to bar, 2004, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Boston University (B.A., summa cum laude, 2000); Boston University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, 2004). Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation. Email: Christopher Coval | | Jennifer Welsh (Associate) born Wilmington, Delaware, August 12, 1981; admitted to bar, 2006, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 2003); Temple University (J.D., 2006). Email: Jennifer Welsh | | Meredith E. Rosenberg (Associate) born Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, March 28, 1981; admitted to bar, 2006, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Emory University (B.A., 2003); Temple University (J.D., 2006). Email: Meredith E. Rosenberg | | Tyler S. Graden (Associate) born Valparaiso, Indiana, June 10, 1978; admitted to bar, 2007, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: American University (B.A., magna cum laude, 2000); Temple University (J.D., 2007). Email: Tyler S. Graden | | James A. McTigue (Associate) born Englewood, New Jersey, July 1, 1982; admitted to bar, 2007, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Pennsylvania State University (B.A., 2004); Villanova University (J.D., 2007). Member, Villanova Environmental Law Journal, 2005-2007. Email: James A. McTigue | Other Office Addresses: Links to Other Offices
Cherry Hill, New Jersey Office: 1040 Kings Highway North, Suite 600. Telephone: 856-309-3373. Fax: 856-309-3375.
West Chester, Pennsylvania Office: 200 North High Street, Suite 300. Telephone: 610-701-9100. Fax: 610-701-9195.
West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania Office: 100 Four Falls Corporate Center, Suite 200. Telephone: 610-940-6045. Fax: 610-940-6046.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Office: Suite 400, 200 Locust Street. Telephone: 717-232-2141. Fax: 717-232-3797.
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