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| | Address | | Suite 315, Five Neshaminy Interplex, Route 1 & Old Lincoln Highway | | Trevose, Pennsylvania 19053 | | (Bucks Co.) | | | |
| | Contact Information | | Phone: 215-639-4070 | | Facsimile: 215-639-8995 | | Visit Our Website | | http://www.fsd-law.com |  | | Send Us Email |  |
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| Fenningham, Stevens & Dempster LLP practices in the following areas of law:
General Civil and Trial Practice in all Courts. Acquisitions and Mergers, Business, Business Succession Planning, Collections, Commercial Transactions, Complex Commercial Litigation, Construction, Contracts, Corporations, Employment Law, Estate Planning, Estate Administration, Franchising, Insurance, Labor Law, Mortgage Foreclosures, Partnerships, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Probate, Real Estate, Wills and Trusts, Zoning and Land Use. | Firm Profile:
Since 1977, members of Fenningham, Stevens & Dempster LLP have served clients throughout Bucks County and Southeastern Pennsylvania, and adjacent counties of New Jersey, providing a full range of legal services to a diverse mix of local, regional, national and international clients. The firm has ties to the business and financial communities and offers the personalized responsiveness of a small firm with the high quality, sophisticated work product and practice of larger firms. Members of the firm are active in local, state and national bar associations and in local governance. | | Firm Size: 10 | Reference:
Citizens Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. | | MEMBERS OF FIRM | | John C. Fenningham (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 18, 1950; admitted to bar, 1976, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1983, U.S. Claims Court; 1985, U.S. Tax Court; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 1990, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey. Education: LaSalle College (B.A., cum laude, 1972); Rutgers University (J.D., 1975); National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1981. Phi Alpha Theta. Law Clerk to Honorable Joseph L. McGlynn, Jr., U.S. District for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., 1975-1977. Law Officer, United States Power Squadron, Pennsway, 1980-1999. Chairman and Member, Zoning Hearing Board, Northampton Township, Bucks County, 1993—. Solicitor, Building Code Board of Appeals (2000—), and Chairman, Community Center Advisory Committee, Northampton Township, Bucks County, 2001-2002. Special Litigation Counsel, County of Bucks, 2003—. Special Counsel, Lancaster County Convention Center Authority, 2005—. Member: Bucks County (Treasurer, 1979-1980; Secretary, 1991-1993; Director, 1980-1982; 1994-1996), Pennsylvania and American (Member, Corporation, Banking and Business Law Sections) Bar Associations; Bucks County Estate Planning Council. Reported Cases: ARC Manufacturing Co. Inc. v. Josef Konrad, 321 Pa.Super. 72 (Plaintiff's co-counsel seeking appointment of custodian to remedy oppression of minority shareholder); Lancaster County Convention Center Authority v. County of Lancaster, et al., No. CI-06-05556 (CP Lancaster) (Special Counsel for Plaintiff Authority in obtaining Preliminary and Permanent Injunctions upholding a 2003 County Guaranty Agreement in connection with Tax Exempt Bond Financing); Court Appointments: Wilhelm v. Sagra Productions, Inc. et al., No. 01-04068 (CP Bucks) (Custodian of two PA Corporations/15 Pa C.S. Section 1767); Kershbaumer et al. v. Kershbaumer, No. 05-06917 (CP Bucks) (Provisional Director and Liquidating Receiver of two PA Corporations) and, Bound v. Bound, No. A06-05-3392-2-E-28 (CP Bucks) (Court appointed Arbitrator of privately owned business enterprise). Practice Areas: Federal and State Litigation; Products Liability; Commercial Transactions; Complex Commercial Litigation; Estate and Business Succession Planning; Real Estate; Zoning and Land Use. Email: John C. Fenningham | | George M. Dempster (Member) born Glen Cove, New York, February 9, 1951; admitted to bar, 1978, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts; 1979, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education: Bucknell University (B.A., 1973); New England School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1978); National Institute for Trial Advocacy (1986). Recipient, American Jurisprudence Awards in Torts and Estate Planning. Editor, New England Law Review, 1977-1978. Author: "Final Offer Arbitration in Massachusetts," 13 New England Law Review 693. Law Clerk to Hon. Donald E. Wieand, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1978-1980. Staff Attorney, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1980-1985. Member: Zoning Hearing Board, Upper Dublin Township; Bucks County Estate Planning Council (Director, 2007—). Member: Bucks County (Member, Orphans' Court Section), Pennsylvania (Member, Sections on: Corporation, Banking and Business Law; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) and American (Member, Sections on: Business Law, Labor and Employment Law, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate; Commercial Transactions; Employment Law; Litigation; Corporate Law; Construction Law; Real Estate. Email: George M. Dempster | | Thomas P. Stevens (Member) born Camden, New Jersey, June 23, 1964; admitted to bar, 1990, Pennsylvania; 1991, New Jersey, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education: Boston College (B.A., 1986); Villanova University School of Law (J.D., 1990). Member: Bucks County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Federal Litigation; State Litigation; Products Liability; Construction Law; Complex Commercial Litigation; Commercial Transactions; Corporate Law; Franchise Law; Estate Planning. Email: Thomas P. Stevens | | John T. Thorn (Member) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25, 1945; admitted to bar, 1970, Pennsylvania; 1971, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1973, U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit; 1975, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: LaSalle University (B.A., Economics, 1967); Villanova University (J.D., 1970). Law Clerk to the (Late) Honorable Joseph L. McGlynn, Jr., Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, 1970-1971. Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1971-1976. Member: Philadelphia County, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Member, Construction Litigation Subcommittee) and American (Member: Forum Committee on The Construction Industry; Tort and Insurance Practice Section; Litigation Section) Bar Associations; International Association of Defense Counsel (1995-2007). Practice Areas: Construction Litigation; Architects and Engineers Professional Liability Defense; Products Liability Defense; Complex Casualty Defense Litigation; Wills; Estate Planning; Estate Administration. Email: John T. Thorn | | Mark C. Labrum (Member) born Abington, Pennsylvania, December 14, 1962; admitted to bar, 1987, Pennsylvania; 1988, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Education: Villanova University (B.S.B.A., Finance, and Economics, cum laude, 1984); Temple University School of Law (J.D., 1987). Judicial Clerkship, Honorable Frank J. Montemuro, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, 1985-1986. Member: Bucks County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Defense Institute. Practice Areas: Products Liability; Construction Litigation; Insurance; Land Use; Zoning. Email: Mark C. Labrum | | OF COUNSEL | | Thomas J. Stevens, Jr. (Of Counsel) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 2, 1933; admitted to bar, 1962, North Dakota; 1966, Pennsylvania; 1972, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1979, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Villanova University (B.S., 1955; J.D., 1961). Attorney, Peter Kiewit & Sons Company, 1961-1963; Attorney, Boeing Company, Vertol Division, 1963-1965; Contracts Manager, Philco-Ford Corporation, (Domestic and International Operations), 1965-1969. [With U.S. Army, 1956-1958]. Practice Areas: Commercial Transactions; Litigation; Franchise. | | Gerald A. Hughes (Of Counsel) born Trenton, New Jersey, 1944; admitted to bar, 1969, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 1981, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, District of Pennsylvania; 1997, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Maryville College (B.A., 1966); University of Tennessee Law School (J.D., Order of the Coif, 1969); Comments Editor. Assistant Prosecutor, Mercer County, New Jersey, 1970-1972. Associate, Levy, Levy, Albert and Marcus, 1973-1978. Partner, Levy, Levy, Albert and Marcus, 1978-1982. Partner, Law Offices of Gerald A. Hughes, 1983-1984. Partner, Hughes, Hendrix and Wallace, LP, 1985-1995. Partner, Hughes and Hendrix, LP, 1995-2004. Partner, Hughes and Cohen, LP, 2004-2007. Reported Cases: State v. Young, 57 N.J. 240 (1970) (state statute on disrupting schools upheld as constitutional); State v. Williams, 459 A.2d 641, 93 N.J. 39 (1983) (press and public have right to access of pre-trial proceeding in capital cases); State v. Hibbs, 123 N.J.Super. 124, 301 A.2d 775, N.J.Super.A.D. (1973) (telephone tracing equipment was reliable and accurate); White v. Lewis, 159 N.J.Super. 71 (1978) (NJ tort immunity for Public Officials for prisoner upon prisoner assault upheld for person arrested but not yet convicted); Stuart v. Gambling Times, Inc., 534 F. Supp. 170 (1982) (libel suit dismissed based on opinion exception); Molin v. Trentonian, 297 N.J.Super.153 (App. Div. 1997) (newspaper headlines should normally be read in conjunction with the whole article for determining whether the headline is libelous). Practice Areas: Construction Law; Defamation; Commercial Litigation; Environmental Law. Email: Gerald A. Hughes | | Philice Krevolin Cohen (Of Counsel) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 13, 1971; admitted to bar, 2000, New Jersey and U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey; 2001, Pennsylvania. Education: University of Pittsburgh (B.A., 1993); Rutgers University Law School (J.D., 2000). Brief Finalist, Hunter Moot Court. Member, Advanced Moot Court Board. Listed in, Dean's List, 1998 and 2000. Associate Editor, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 1999-2000. Law Clerk to Honorable William P. Gilroy, P.J.S.C., Monmouth County, 2000-2001. Teaching Assistant, Legal Research and Writing, 1999. Member: New Jersey State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Construction Law; Defamation. | | ASSOCIATES | | Terence P. Fenningham (Associate) born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 20, 1953; admitted to bar, 1988, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: LaSalle University (B.S., 1985); Delaware Law School of Widener University (J.D., 1988). Law Clerk to the Hon. Charles P. Mirarchi, Jr., Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia County, 1987-1989. Member: Pennsylvania Bar Association. Practice Areas: Federal Litigation; State Litigation; Products Liability; Commercial Transactions; Estate Planning; Corporate Law; Negligence. Email: Terence P. Fenningham | | Maura F. Ratigan (Associate) born Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1971; admitted to bar, 1997, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 2000, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: University of Notre Dame (B.A., cum laude, 1993; J.D., magna cum laude, 1996). Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Jurisprudence. Lead Articles Editor, Notre Dame Law Review. Law Clerk to Honorable Joseph L. McGlynn, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1996-1997. Author: "A Full Laundering Cycle is Required: Plowing Back the Proceeds to Carry on Crime is the Crime Under 18 U.S.C. § 1956(a)(1)(A)(i)," 70 Notre Dame L. Rev. 891 (1995). Member: Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Federal and State Litigation; Antitrust; Products Liability; Complex Commercial Litigation; Commercial Transactions. Email: Maura F. Ratigan | | Timothy B. Fenningham (Associate) born Meadowbrook, Pennsylvania, September 26, 1979; admitted to bar, 2005, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Education: Boston College (B.A., magna cum laude, 2002); Villanova University School of Law (J.D., 2005). Member: Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Corporate Law; Litigation; Real Estate; Construction Law; Environmental Law; Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations; Transportation. |
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