Aaron provides legal counsel to attorneys, accountants, real estate agents, home inspectors, home appraisers, insurance brokers, and other professionals. Aaron has strong experience representing insurance brokers throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware, including complex claims involving issues concerning duty of care, policy interpretation, whether alternative policies were available, and claims with nuanced statute of limitations issues. He handles a variety of claims including, but not limited to, legal and accounting malpractice, wrongful use of civil process, commercial litigation, negligence, breach of contract, municipal liability, and civil rights matters. Aaron is also experienced in consumer financial services litigation and compliance, particularly representing attorneys and agencies in debt collection practices.
Outside of his professional liability practice, Aaron is also an experienced litigator, defending clients in matters involving premises liability, land use, automobile liability, intellectual property and employment law.
Aaron is a 1987 graduate of Millersville University. Following graduation, he taught grades six through eight in the School District of Philadelphia for 12 years. During that time, he earned a Master's Degree in Education from Temple University. While teaching, Aaron attended evening classes at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University where he made the Dean's List and earned honors in Trial Advocacy and Research and Writing. Aaron began his legal career as an associate with a Blue Bell, Pennsylvania law firm, where he primarily focused on defending Pennsylvania municipalities in areas of civil rights law, premises liability, land use and automobile liability.
Aaron has received an AV Preeminent rating by the Martindale Hubbell.
Honors & awards
Top Lawyer, Legal Malpractice, Delaware Today
November 2024
AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
Year joined
2006
Results
Summary Judgment Secured in a Legal Malpractice Case
Lawyers' Professional Liability
December 2, 2024
We obtained a summary judgment dismissal on behalf of our client, a law firm, that was sued by its former clients for legal malpractice. The plaintiffs, seven affiliated companies and their owners in the business of developing property, had been sued by their bank for defaulting on multiple lines of credit. The bank filed several lawsuits against the property developers, claiming approximately $7 million in damages, plus attorneys’ fees, which were recoverable pursuant to the terms of the promissory notes.
Successfully Obtained Dismissal of Claims Brought Derivatively and Directly by a Corporation
Lawyers' Professional Liability
September 20, 2024
We successfully obtained dismissal of claims brought derivatively and directly by a corporation, including aiding and abetting breach of fiduciary duty and tortious interference with contract. The claims were brought against our client, an out of state attorney who previously represented the corporation and its former director. The Court granted the attorney’s Motion to Dismiss, concluding that the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently allege facts that would confer personal jurisdiction over the attorney under a conspiracy theory.
Successfully Obtained Dismissal of Wrongful Use of Civil Proceedings Claims Brought Against Two Attorneys
Lawyers' Professional Liability
September 20, 2024
We successfully obtained dismissal of wrongful use of civil proceedings claims brought against our clients, two attorneys who were alleged to have wrongfully prosecuted a professional negligence claim against the plaintiff, a real estate agent. The plaintiff would not accept any settlement that was less than policy limits.
Obtained Dismissal of All Claims Against Our Clients in Legal Malpractice Matters
Lawyers' Professional Liability
September 17, 2024
We obtained dismissal of wrongful use of civil proceedings claims brought against our clients, two attorneys who were alleged to have wrongfully prosecuted a professional negligence claim against the plaintiff, a real estate agent. The plaintiff would not accept any settlement that was less than policy limits. After five years of litigation, the court granted our summary judgment motion, concluding that the plaintiff failed to adduce facts that would reflect that the attorneys prosecuted the underlying action in a grossly negligent manner, or without probable cause.
Summary Judgment Secured for a Condominium Association
Non-Profit D&O
January 20, 2024
We obtained summary judgment, dismissal and an award of attorneys’ fees for a condominium association. Judgment was entered in favor of our client against the plaintiff in an earlier action that sought unpaid assessments. In order to sell its property, the plaintiff sent the association a check in the amount of recorded liens. The association returned the check, demanding the full payoff amount, and claimed a statutory lien for all amounts owed.
Thought Leadership
Delaware Supreme Court Upholds Dismissal of Legal Malpractice Claims Based on Collateral Estoppel
Wilmington
Lawyers' Professional Liability
October 1, 2025
The Delaware Supreme Court affirmed the Superior Court’s dismissal of the plaintiffs’ legal malpractice claims under the collateral estoppel doctrine.
Six Marshall Dennehey Attorneys Selected 2024 “Top Lawyers” By Delaware Today Magazine
Health Care Liability
Lawyers' Professional Liability
General Liability
November 1, 2024
Marshall Dennehey announced today that six attorneys from its Wilmington, Delaware office have been selected 2024 “Top Lawyers” by Delaware Today magazine.
Delaware Supreme Court Rules that Attorneys Are Liable for Malpractice Claims If a Sufficiently Developed Record Could Have Impacted the Outcome of a Case
Wilmington
Lawyers' Professional Liability
July 1, 2024
Update: Prior to publication of this alert, the Delaware Supreme Court vacated its earlier opinion in GMG Ins. Agency v. Margolis Edelstein, 2024 WL 1688869 (Del. Apr. Case Law Alerts, 3rd Quarter, July
In an Atypical Legal Malpractice Case, the Delaware Superior Court Dismisses Insurance Agency’s Legal Malpractice Claim Against Its Former Attorneys
Wilmington
Lawyers' Professional Liability
June 13, 2023
In GMG Ins. Agency v. Margolis Edelstein, 2023 WL 2854760 (Del. Super. Ct. Apr. 10, 2023), reargument denied sub nom. GMG Ins. Agency v. Edelstein, 2023 WL 3522297 (Del. Super. Ct. Legal Update for Lawyers’ Professional Liability - June 13, 2023,
The Dragonetti Act provision that provides for an award of punitive damages does not violate Pennsylvania’s Constitution.
Philadelphia - Headquarters
Lawyers' Professional Liability
April 1, 2023
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in a non-precedential decision, has upheld a verdict in which a jury awarded a plaintiff punitive damages in a wrongful use of civil proceedings action brought under 42 Pa. C.S. 8351, et seq. (Dragonetti Act). Case Law Alerts, 2nd Quarter, April 2023 is prepared by Marshall Dennehey to provide information on recent developments of interest to our readers.
Classes/Seminars Taught
Proving a Case Within a Case in Legal Malpractice Actions, PLDF Annual Meeting, September 2018
Developments in Lawyer Liability in Pennsylvania & New Jersey, client seminar, March 2017
Professional Liability - Issues for Attorneys, client seminar, June 2016
Virtual Law Office and Interstate Practice of Law, National Business Institute, April 2015
Aaron has been invited to speak to the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants as well as the Pennsylvania Home Inspector Association. Aaron has also given presentations to insurance companies concerning developments in legal malpractice law.
