MEMBERS OF FIRM
Arthur G. Raynes (1934-2006).
John J. McCarty (1931-2001).
James F. Mundy (Member) born Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 22, 1943; admitted to bar, 1970, Pennsylvania; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Kings College (B.S., 1965); Catholic University of America (J.D., 1968). Recipient: Justice Michael A. Musmanno Memorial Award, 1987. Listed: Pennsylvania Superlawyer, 2004, 2005. Co-Author: "An Analysis of the Financial Responsibility Law," Trial Advocacy Foundation (TAF), Pennsylvania Motor Vehicle Insurance, 1985; "New Financial Responsibility Law," Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, 1986. Appointed by: Governor Robert P. Casey to Chair Appellate Court Nominating Commission, 1987-1994; The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to the Lawyer Disciplinary Board, 1984-1990 (Chair, 1989-1990); Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to the Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Board, 1992-1994. Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to the Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts Board (IOLTA), 1994-1996. Member: Board of Trustees, College Misericordia, 1983-1988; Board of Trustees, King's College, 1991. Co-Chair, Senate Select Committee on Medical Malpractice, 1984-1986. Member: Philadelphia (Treasurer, 1981-1983) and Pennsylvania (President, 1996-1997) Bar Associations; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1979-1980); Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1983-1984); American College of Trial Lawyers; American Board of Trial Advocates (Diplomate). International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 2000. Practice Areas: Plaintiffs Personal Injury Trial Practice; Products Liability Law; Wrongful Death Law; Medical Malpractice Law; Drugs and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Liability).Email: James F. Mundy
Eugene D. McGurk, Jr. (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 27, 1951; admitted to bar, 1978, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1982, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: LaSalle College (B.A., 1973); Widener University School of Law (J.D., summa cum laude, valedictorian, 1978). Phi Kappa Phi; Phi Alpha Delta. Recipient: Outstanding Alumni Award, Widener University School of Law, 1992. Member, Moot Court Honor Society. Articles Editor, Delaware Journal of Corporate Law, 1977-1978. Adjunct Faculty, Widener University School of Law, Fall, 1993. Instructor, International Law Studies Program, University of Nairobi Law Institute, Kenya, Summer, 1990. N.I.T.A. Faculty-Lecturer, Temple University School of Law, January 1996. Visiting Instructor, Department of Community Medicine, Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1985-1990. N.I.T.A. Lecturer, Widener University, January 2001. Guest Lecturer: University of Pennsylvania Dental School, 1985-1989; Thomas Jefferson Medical School, 1983, 1984. Assistant City Solicitor, Philadelphia, 1978-1981. Member, Board of Overseers, 1985, Vice Chairman, 2002-2003, Chairman, 2004, Board of Trustees, 2001, and Secretary, Executive Board, 2004, Widener University School of Law. Member, Executive Council Alumni Association, 1980, Vice President, 1982-1985 and President, 1985-1992. Member, Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 1993-1999, Chair, 1995-1999 and Alternate Hearing Member, 2001-2006, Committee 1.17. Member, Advisory Board of Directors, Philadelphia Center City Association of Proprietors, 1986. Listed: Pennsylvania and New Jersey Super Lawyer, 2005. Member: Philadelphia (Member, State Civil Procedures Committee, 1994), Camden County, Pennsylvania, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers (Board of Directors, 1992-1995). (Also at Haddon Heights, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Products Liability Law; Wrongful Death Law; Medical Malpractice; Drugs and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Liability); Plaintiff.Email: Eugene D. McGurk, Jr.
A. Roy DeCaro (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1949; admitted to bar, 1974, Pennsylvania and District of Columbia; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court.. Education: Villanova University (B.A., 1971; J.D., 1974). Order of the Coif; Blue Key Society. Dougherty Fellowship. Former Adjunct Professor, Widener University Graduate School. Listed: Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Top 100, 2004 and 2005. Deputy District Attorney, Investigations and Chief Assistant District Attorney, Special Investigations, Philadelphia District Attorney's Office, 1982-1986. Assistant United States Attorney, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1982. Assistant District Attorney and Special Prosecutor, Deputy District Attorney, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 1978-1982. Chief Counsel, Select Committee to Investigate the Pennsylvania State Police (Pennsylvania House of Representatives), 1986. Hearing Examiner for Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board, 1989. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (Former Board Member); Justinian Society (Former Board Member); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; American Board of Trial Advocates; American College of Trial Advocates; International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Plaintiffs Personal Injury Trial Practice; Medical Malpractice Law; Construction Law; Trucking Law.Email: A. Roy DeCaro
Harold I. Goodman (Member) born Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 2, 1945; admitted to bar, 1969, Massachusetts and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1970, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1972, Pennsylvania; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court; 1996, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Boston University (B.A., cum laude, 1966; J.D., cum laude, 1969). Listed: Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2004, 2005. Author: "Conspiracy: The Trial of the Boston Five," 2 Commentaries at 3 (1969). Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy. Member, Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, September, 1996-2001. Member: Lawyers' Advisory Committee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1990-1993; Lawyers' Advisory Committee to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1984-1990. Director, Pennsylvania Legal Services Corporation, 1996-1997. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; National Employment Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Civil Rights Law; Labor and Employment; Discrimination; Plaintiffs Personal Injury Trial Practice; Appellate Practice; Products Liability Law.Email: Harold I. Goodman
Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr. (Member) born 1954; admitted to bar, 1979, Pennsylvania. Education: St. Joseph's University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1976); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1979). Associate Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 1978-1979. Law Clerk: Hon. Alfred L. Luongo, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1979-1981; Hon. Edmund B. Spaeth, Jr., Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1979. Listed: Best Lawyers in America, 2003-2005; Pennsylvania SuperLawyer Top 10, 2004, 2005; Recipient: Distinguished Child Advocate, 2004; Leadership Award, Friends of Farmworkers, 2001; Philadelphia Bar Association Fidelity Award, 1997; Leadership Award, Pennsylvania Legal Services, 2001; Justice Musmanno Award, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, 2002; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers President's Award, 1992; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Milton Rosenberg Award, 1993; Community Legal Services Equal Justice Award, 1994. Chair, Statewide Task Force on Product Liability, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers, 1992-1995. Hearing Officer, Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1993-1998. Co-Author: "Pennsylvania Torts: Law & Advocacy," West Publishing, St. Paul, 1996. Author: "Informed Consent - Door Closed, Doors Opened," Legal Intelligener, October, 2002; "An Interpretive Analysis of Medical Malpractice Reform," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XXV, March 2002; "Forecasting Value in a Plaintiff's Case," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 63 No. 4 Winter, 2000; "Rights of International Air Crash Victims," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XXI, August, 1998; "Of Trials, Forests & Trees," The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 59, No. 3, Fall 1996; "Consumer Protection and Prescription Drugs", Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Vol. XVII, No. 18, May, 1994; "The Statute of Limitations & the Discovery Rule", Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, Vol. LXIV, No. 4, October, 1993; "Joint Tortfeasor Releases: Negotiating the Maze", Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly, Vol. LXII, No. 4, October 1991; "Techniques in Taking Depositions", The Philadelphia Lawyer, Vol. 55, No. 2, Summer 1992; "Amended Rule 238: Its Scope and Application," The Barrister, Vol. 21, Spring, 1990; "Protection of the Rights of Pregnant Women in Prison & Detention Facilities," New England Journal on Prison Law, Vol. 6 #2, 1980. Chairman, Pennsylvania IOLTA Board, 1996-2003. Member: Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1989; President, 1997-1998); Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1991); Philadelphia Bar Foundation (President, 2002-2003; Trustee, 1999-2002); Philadelphia (Member, Board of Governors, 2002-2003), American and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; American Law Institute. International Academy of Trial Lawyers; American College of Trial Lawyers. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Products Liability; Aviation.Email: Gerald Austin McHugh, Jr.
Martin K. Brigham (Member) born Niagara Falls, Canada, April 21, 1953; admitted to bar, 1979, Tennessee; 1981, Pennsylvania. Education: Brown University (B.A., 1975); Northeastern University (J.D., 1979). Listed: Best Lawyers in America, 2005 and Pennsylvania Super Lawyer 2005. Recipient, Karen Silkwood Award, Phila POSH; Angel Award from Phoenix Society for Burn Survivors, 2002. Contributing Author, Packaging Forensics, Lawyers & Judges Publishing Company. Author: "Not Alone", Trial, Vol. 41, No. 4, April 2005. Co-Author: "How Do You Spell Relief: Advocating for Injured Workers," Trial, Vol. 38, No. 6, June, 2002; "Third-Party Liability for Workplace Injuries," Trial Vo. 39, No. 3, March 2003; "Trumping Pollution Exclusions," Trial, Vol. 36, No. 10, October 2000; "Injured on the Job," Philadelphia Project on Occupational Safety and Health, 1983, 1987, 1993. Member: Pennsylvania Bar Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Million Dollar Advocats Forum; National Fire Protection Association; National Safety Council. Reported Cases: Reliance Insurance Co. v. Moessner, 121 F.3d 895 (3d Cir. 1997); Reliance Insurance Co. vs V.E. Corp., 2000 WL 217511 (E.D. Pa. Feb 10, 2000); Barron v. Caterpillar, Inc., 1996 WL 460086 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 7, 1996); Shoemaker v. WCAB, 606 A.2d 1168 (Pa., 1992); Quinn v. Neville Chemical Co., 1988 WL 102685 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 28, 1988); Larew v. North American Manufacturing Co., 1988 WL 100727 (E.D. Pa. Sept. 27 1988); Mrs. Smith's Frozen Foods Co. v. WCAB, 539 A.2d 11 (Pa. Comwlth. 1988); Prowell v. West Chemical Products, Inc., 678 F.Supp. 553 (E.D. Pa. 1988); D'Agostino v. WCAB, 109 Pa. Comwlth. 162, 530 A.2d 1015 (Pa. Comwlth. 1987); Povernich v. Bowen, 1987 WL 6879 (E.D. Pa. 1987); Friedman v. 3M Company, 1985 WL 3848 (E.D. Pa. 1985); Miller v. WCAB, 496 A.2d 1337 (Pa. Comwlth. 1985); Busche v. WCAB, 466 A.2d 278 (Pa. Comwlth. 1983). Practice Areas: Products Liability; Toxic Torts; Mediation; Severe Burns; Explosions; Electrical Injury; Power Line Contact Injury; Chemical Explosions.Email: Martin K. Brigham
Stephen E. Raynes (Member) born Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1966; admitted to bar, 1992, New York and Pennsylvania; 1995, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (B.S., in Economics, magna cum laude, 1988); University of Michigan (J.D., 1991). Listed: Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2004, 2005. Law Clerk to Hon. John P. Fullam, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1991-1992. Associate, Corporate and Litigation Departments, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, New York, NY, 1992-1994. Associate, Mergers and Acquisitions Department, CS First Boston Corporation, New York, NY, 1994-1995. Board Member: Operation Smile, 2000; Operation Understanding, 2002-. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York State and American Bar Associations; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1999-2002); Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Practice Areas: Products Liability Law; Drugs and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Liability); Medical Malpractice; Aviation; Business Litigation; Plaintiff.Email: Stephen E. Raynes
Charles P. Hehmeyer (Member) born Cleveland, Ohio December 16, 1960; admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Ohio State University (B.A., 1982); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., 1986). Listed: Pennsylvania Super Lawyer 2005. Associate, Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1986-1988. Associate General Counsel, Safeguard Business Systems, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, 1988-1996. Sole Practitioner, Charles P. Hehmeyer, P.C., 1996-2002. Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Children with Metabolic Diseases; Birth Trauma; Obstetric Malpractice; Products Liability.Email: Charles P. Hehmeyer
Martina Walsh McLaughlin (Member) born 1955; admitted to bar, 1980, Pennsylvania. Education: Kings College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1977); University of Notre Dame (J.D., cum laude, 1980). Member: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania and Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Directors 1986-1991). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Products Liability.Email: Martina Walsh McLaughlin
Timothy R. Lawn (Member) born 1962; admitted to bar, 1989, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education: Spring Garden College (B.S., cum laude, 1984); Delaware Law School of Widener University (J.D., cum laude, 1989). Listed: Outstanding Lawyers of America. Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2005. Co-Author: "Strict Liability Claims Against Health Care Providers in Breast Implant Litigation," 29 Tort and Insurance Law Journal 818, 1994. Author: "Defending Depositions" and "Deposition Tactics in Product Liability Cases," PATLA Pub. 202-2000. Author: "How to Litigate Your First Civil Trial in Pennsylvania" NBI 12U8111, 2003. Adjunct Professor; Advanced Trial Advocacy, Temple University School of Law. Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy. Lecturer, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations. Associate O'Brien & Ryan, 1989-1996; Shareholder, Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young 1996-2004. Member: American Board of Trial Advocates; Million Dollar Advocates Form. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Automobile Accidents and Injuries; Civil Litigation.Email: Timothy R. Lawn
Regina M. Foley (Member) born 1967; admitted to bar, 1992, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: Catholic University of America (B.A., 1989); Widener University (J.D., 1992). Associate, Litivin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young, 1997-2003. Member, McGuckin, Pitt, Foley & McCarthy, 1995-1997. Associate, James I. Devine & Associates, 1992-1995. Board Member, Mount Saint Joseph Academy Alumnae Association, 1997-2003; St. Genevieve Church Pastoral Council, 2001; Sisters of Saint Joseph Welcome Center, 2006. Member, Desmond J. McTighe Chapter of the American Inn of Courts, 1994-2004. Member: Philadelphia (Member: Executive Board, Young Lawyers Division; (2001-2004); Women in Law Committee; Professional Responsibility Committee; Medical-Legal Committee), Pennsylvania (Member, The House of Delegates 2002, Women In Law Committee, Work-Life Balance Committee and American Bar Associations; Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (Member, Board of Governors, 2001-2006). Awards: 2004 Selected as a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly; Listed: 2005 and 2006 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star. (Also at Haddon Heights, New Jersey Office). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Medical Malpractice; Products Liability.Email: Regina M. Foley
Daniel Bencivenga (Member) born Paterson, New Jersey, January 4, 1963; admitted to bar, 1994, New Jersey; 1995, Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Bucknell University (B.A., 1984); Widener University (J.D., 1994). Phi Delta Phi. Harrington Inn Honor Chapter. Co-Author, "Third-Party Liability for Workplace Injuries," TRIAL, Vol. 39, No. 3, March 2003; "How do you Spell Relief?" ADA, FMLA SSA, TRIAL, Vol. 38, No. 6, June 2002; "Trumping Pollution Exclusions," Trial, Vol. 36, No. 10, October 2000; "Burn Survivors and the Americans with Disabilities Act," Burn Support News, Issue 4, Winter Edition 2000; "SSD, FMLA & the ADA: What Workers' Compensation & Personal Injury Lawyers Need to Know," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Publications, PBI No. 2001-2823 (co-author/faculty member). Member: Philadelphia and American Bar Associations. (Also at Haddon Heights, New Jersey Office). Reported Cases: Reliance Insurance Co. v V.E. Corp., 2000 WL 217511 (E.D. Pa. Feb 10, 2000); Merritt v. Delaware River Port Authority, 1999 WL285900 (E.D. Pa. April 20, 1999); McLaughlin v. State System of Higher Education, 1999 WL239408 (E.D. Pa. March 31, 1999); Deane v. Pocono Medical Center, 142 F.3d 138 (3d Cir. 1998); Pearson v. UCBR, 689 A.2d 352 (Pa. Comwlth. 1996). Practice Areas: Products Liability; Employment Discrimination.Email: Daniel Bencivenga
Joseph Z. Traub (Member) born Rochester, New York, 1968; admitted to bar, 1997, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education: State University of New York at Binghamton (B.A., 1991); Villanova University (M.A., 1994); Temple University (J.D., 1997). Member, Raynes McCarty, 2007. Sole Practitioner, 2000-2007. Associate, Galfand Berger, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1997-2000. Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Products Liability; Medical Malpractice; Appellate Practice.
ASSOCIATE
Jenimae Almquist (Associate) admitted to bar, 1999, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Bryn Mawr College (B.A., magna cum laude); Temple University, Beasley School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude). Recipient: Barrister Award; West Publishing's Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award. Named as one of forty "Lawyers on the Fast Track." Member: Philadelphia (Member, Board of Governors), Pennsylvania (Member, Committee on Women in the Profession) and American Bar Associations; Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania (Secretary); Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. (Also at Haddon Heights, New Jersey Office). Languages: Spanish.Email: Jenimae Almquist
OF COUNSEL
Nancy R. Dubow (Of Counsel) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 12, 1961; admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1983); Catholic University of America (J.D., 1986). Director, Office of Legal Affairs, The George Washington University Medical Center, 1986-1989. Member: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; American Society of Law and Medicine. Practice Areas: Plaintiffs Personal Injury Trial Practice; Products Liability Law; Wrongful Death Law; Medical Malpractice Law; Drugs and Medical Devices (Pharmaceutical Liability).Email: Nancy R. Dubow