Cases
Significant Representative Matters: United States v. Rooney - Successfully defended an AFSCME District Council Vice President accused of embezzlement from a union hospital in a multiple-defendant, six-week trial resulting in the only acquittal in the case.
State v. Grossberg, a Delaware case involving the death of an infant.
Bass v. County of Wayne, et. al. - In this malicious prosecution/civil rights case in Detroit, Michigan, was part of the trial team that obtained the then highest damages award to date awarded by a Michigan jury.
Wright v. PHA - A jury verdict was obtained in a reverse-discrimination civil rights suit on behalf of an employee of the Philadelphia Housing Authority.
Commonwealth v. Eric Grier - represented a defendant accused of first degree murder
conspiracy to murder
whose death sentence was reversed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court because of an improper instruction on accomplice liability for the crime of first degree murder. As a result of the reversal, the proper st
ard of accomplice liability for first degree murder was clarified.
Successfully represented a physician during an investigation by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
committees of the United States Senate
the United States House of Representatives, into the administering of prostate cancer radiation therapy at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Successfully represented a physician in a civil investigation by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
the Food
Drug Administration into the off-label use of a drug manufactured
marketed by a major pharmaceutical house.
Represented an orthopedic surgeon who was a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania into the use of synthetic bone cement alleged to have caused significant medical injuries to patients.
Represented an orthopedic surgeon who was a witness in a criminal investigation conducted by the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey into the payment of kickbacks in return for the use of certain types of orthopedic appliances.
Published Works: Third Circuit Criminal H
book - 2016 Edition, LexisNexis, Winter 2016
Government Disclosure Obligations in Criminal Cases, The Legal Intelligencer, White Collar Crime Supplement, May 5, 2015
Corporate Bylaws May Provide Unintended Support For Employees, New Jersey Law Journal, March 10, 2014
Moratorium on Death: A Paradigm for Pennsylvania, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Winter, 2003
