| Mr. Lawn focuses his practice on representing individuals and families who have suffered serious injuries or death as a result of another’s wrongful acts. Over the past twenty years, he has repeatedly secured for his clients verdicts and settlements in excess of one million dollars in a variety of cases, including medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, defective products, and workplace accidents.
Some of his more notable results include a $7.5 million verdict for a mentally challenged man permanently injured by improper medical care and a $9.7 million medical malpractice arbitration verdict for a Central Pennsylvania child left deaf and blind from a delayed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis. Mr. Lawn co-counseled with two of his partners in securing a $5 million pre-trial settlement for a painter severely injured at a work site. He also recovered more than $1.3 million for the widow and young son of a Lehighton PA man killed by a drunken driver who was served alcohol by a bar after he was already drunk. Within the last year Mr. Lawn has won jury trial verdicts of $2.9 million in Philadelphia and $1.65 million in Middlesex, New Jersey, in complicated wrongful death cases.
Mr. Lawn has repeatedly been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer based upon the voting of lawyers throughout the state. In 2008, the votes from fellow attorneys placed him in the top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania. He is listed in the Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers. The Martindale- Hubbell Law Directory has given Mr. Lawn its highest rating in legal skill and ethics. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
Mr. Lawn serves as a Judge Pro Tem in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, where he conducts pre-trial conferences for the Court on complex civil cases. He also is an adjunct professor of law at Temple University School of Law where he teaches advanced trial advocacy. He also teaches other lawyers trial advocacy skills, including as an instructor with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy. He has written for regional and national law journals, including The Torts & Insurance Law Journal published by the American Bar Association.
Timothy Lawn is especially proud of his serving as the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Dave Palmer Memorial Foundation, a tax exempt public charity that he founded in 1992. The Foundation provides financial assistance to children who have lost a parent to an untimely death. To date, this Foundation has provided almost a quarter million dollars of financial assistance to hundreds of children.
From 2000 through December, 2005 Mr. Lawn served as an elected Township Commissioner in Springfield Township, Montgomery County, where he lives with his wife and four children. In 2008 he was placed into the Bishop McDevitt High School Alumni Hall of Fame in recognition of the work he does in his community. He is a cum laude graduate of Spring Garden College where he played four years of varsity baseball, and a cum laude graduate of the Widener University School of Law in Delaware where he received two American Jurisprudence awards for academic excellence and was inducted as a member of Phi Kappa Phi national honor society.
- Spring Garden College of Philadelphia, PA, cum laude
- Delaware Law School of Widener University, cum laude
- The American Board of Trial Advocates
- Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, member of the Board of Directors
- Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
- American Association for Justice
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations
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