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Address
Two Penn Center Plaza, Suite 200
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102 (Philadelphia Co.)
Average Client Review Rating
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Average Peer Review Rating
5.0
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(Main Office) Mr. Murphy has represented mostly individuals and small businesses in both routine and complex civil court proceedings. His background combines on-the-job training in advocacy under the legendary trial lawyer James E. Beasley, the perspective of judicial clerkships with three esteemed judges and the discipline of former full-time law teaching in such subjects as Federal Jurisdiction, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law. Statement of PracticeGeneral and complex civil Litigation in federal and state court, including personal injury, civil rights employment, and declaratory judgment insurance litigation. Firm Size: 1
AddressTwo Penn Center Plaza, Suite 200
Philadelphia, PA 19102, (Philadelphia Co.)
PhonePhone: 215-854-6376
Fax: 215-564-2011
Website
http://www.billmurphylaw.com
William P. Murphy (Principal) born Scranton, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1952; admitted to bar, 1976, Pennsylvania; 1977, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1989, District of Columbia; 1990, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania. Education: University of Scranton (B.A., English, summa cum laude, 1973); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., cum laude, 1976). Comment Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Volume 124, 1975-1976. Associate Editor, 1974-1975. Judicial Law Clerk to: Hon. Edward R. Becker, U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa., (Later 3d Cir. C.A. Judge), 1976-1977; Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S.C.A., 3d Cir., 1977-1978; Hon. Samuel J. Roberts, Pa. Supreme Court, 1978-1979. Assistant and later Associate Professor of Law at St. John's U. School of Law, New York, 1979-81, 1982-83. Associate at the Beasley law firm in Philadelphia in 1980s, included in the firm name in 1988. Lecturer, Products Liability, Temple University School of Law (now Beasley School of Law), 1988-1989. Legal Ed. and later Editor-In-Chief, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, 1994-96. Principal Legal Publications: Sidetracking the FELA, 69 Minn. Law Review 349, 1985; Reinterpreting Person in Section 1983, 9 Black Law Journal (U.C.L.A.) 101, 1985; Comments on Judicial Nullification in Public Figure Libel Suits, 86 W. Va. Law Review, 269, 1983; Supreme Court Review of Abstract State Court Decisions, 25 St. Louis U.L.J. 473, 1981; The Prior Restraint Doctrine in the Supreme Court, 51 Notre Dame Lawyer 898, 1976; PA Judicial Directory 2005 , Forward, "The Court System of Pennsylvania", Am. Law. Media; columnist, Murphy's Law, PA Law Weekly, Am. Lawyer Media, 6/99 to approx. 6/01, and 6/05. Unprecedented Authority: A 100-Year Survey of The PA Supreme Court, appearing in special millennium magazine ed., "100 Years of PA Law," Am. Lawyer Media, 2000. Keynote Speaker, Centennial Jubilee, All Saints Church, Dunmore, PA, 2005. Participant, debate on Judicial Elections sponsored by Allegheny County Bar Association, October 23, 2001 and broadcast on PCN cable. Appointed binding Arbitrator by Hon. John Padova, U.S. E.D. Pa. in case concerning education rights. Member, Ad Hoc Committee, Ethics Rule 7.3 PaTLA, 1999. Member: Pennsylvania Association for Justice. Reported Cases: State: Vallone v. Creech, 820 A.2d 760 (Pa. Super. 2003); Commonwealth v. Hull. 705 A.2d 911 (Pa. Super. 1998); Maritrans GP Inc. v. Pepper, Hamilton & Sheetz, 602 A.2d 1277 (Pa. 1992); McHugh v. Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young, 574 A.2d 1040 (Pa. 1990); Rogers v. Johnson & Johnson Products Inc., 565 A.2d 751 (Pa.Super.1988); Mitzelfelt v. Kamrin, 549 A.2d 935 (Pa. Super. 1988); Sprague v. Walter, 543 A.2d 1078 (Pa. 1988); Hatchard v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Company, 532 A.2d 346 (Pa. 1987). Federal: Hill v. Borough, 445 F.3d 225 (3d Cir. 2006); Terra Nova Insurance v. 900 Bar, Inc., 887 F.2d 1213 (3d Cir. 1989); Simone v. Golden Nugget, 844 F.2d 1031 (3d Cir. 1988); Senator Paul Laxalt v. McClatchy, 809 F.2d 885 (D.C. Cir. 1987); Coughlin v. Westinghouse Broadcasting and Cable, 476 U.S. 1187 (1986) (Burger, C.J., dissenting from denial of cert. re: 780 F.2d .340, 3d Cir. 1985). Practice Areas: Personal Injury; Civil Rights; Civil Appeals; Federal Civil Practice; Media Libel.
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