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The following is a list of our most recent events. Click on the links for more information or contact us at events@raynesmccarty.com
01/28/2009
Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh Make "Report 100" List for Third Year in a Row
The Pennsylvania Report, a premier news source on Pennsylvania politics, for the third year in a row listed Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh among the Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs....Details >>
12/01/2008
Pennsylvania Superior Court Rules in Favor of Raynes McCarty Client
Mother, who during her pregnancy, was misled by doctors as to the health of her baby, may hold the doctors responsible for the distress caused her by not being emotionally prepared for a child with severe disabilities....Details >>
11/12/2008
Martin Brigham selected as one of the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers.
Marty was nominated by a survey of other prominent attorneys to appear in the 2009 Guide to the World’s Leading Product Liability Lawyers....Details >>
10/29/2008
Raynes McCarty paralegal Donna M. Colarulo, R.P. serving on the Board of Advisors for Widener University’s paralegal training program.
As a member of the Board of Advisors Legal Education Program, Ms. Colarulo participates in panel discussions regarding decisions affecting the curriculum for Widener University’s paralegal training programs....Details >>
10/20/2008
Five Raynes McCarty lawyers recognized by Best Lawyers in America
Best Lawyers in America selected Marty Brigham, Roy DeCaro, Harold Goodman, Jerry McHugh and Stephen Raynes for inclusion in its 2009 edition....Details >>
10/20/2008
Jerry McHugh featured speaker at Pennsylvania Association for Justice Masters Series
Raynes McCarty lawyer Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. was the featured speaker at a PaAJ Masters Series continuing legal education program titled Perspectives on the Critical Components of a Trial....Details >>
10/20/2008
Tim Lawn featured speaker at Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s Luncheon Lecture Series
Raynes McCarty lawyer Timothy Lawn will speak at the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association’s November 3, 2008 continuing legal education program titled Proving Difficult Medical Malpractice Issues. ...Details >>
09/01/2008
Philadelphia jury awards Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for eye injuries caused by defective plastic flying disc.
After a two-day trial, a jury awarded the Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for a laceration to his eye caused by a shard of plastic that splintered from a broken flying disc....Details >>
09/01/2008
Philadelphia jury awards Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for eye injuries caused by defective plastic flying disc.
After a two-day trial, a jury awarded the Raynes McCarty client $950,000.00 for a laceration to his eye caused by a shard of plastic that splintered from a broken flying disc....Details >>
04/16/2008
Gerald McHugh and wife Maureen Tate were honored by Friends for Effective Education (FFEE) at the Tribute Medallion Award Dinner on April 16, 2008
The Award recognizes McHugh and Tate’s lifelong dedication to community service, while at the same time raising funds for the St. Francis de Sales Elementary School, in keeping with FFEE’s purpose of providing monetary support to schools that exhibit educational leadership....Details >>
03/31/2008
Regina M. Foley appointed to Philadelphia Bar Association Board of Governors.
Regina M. Foley was appointed to serve a one year term on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association by Chancellor Michael A. Pratt....Details >>
03/21/2008
Regina M. Foley spoke April 9, 2008 at Continuing Legal Education seminar.
Ms. Foley updated plaintiffs’ and defense attorneys alike on recent developments in products liability law at The Dispute Resolution Institute’s Personal Injury Potpourri....Details >>
03/20/2008
Jenimae Almquist named co-chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Advancing Civics Education (A.C.E.) program.
Raynes McCarty’s Jenimae Almquist and co-chair Barbara Potts, are leading members of the Bar Association in a program to provide supplemental civics education to Philadelphia area public school students starting in the Fall of 2008.
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02/08/2008
Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh Make Pennsylvania Report 100
The Pennsylvania Report, a premier news source on Pennsylvania politics, for the second year in a row listed Jim Mundy and Gerald McHugh among the Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs....Details >>
01/29/2008
Jenimae Almquist serves on Philadelphia Bar Association panel on work-family balance.
Raynes McCarty attorney Jenimae Almquist spoke at the program titled “How to Have It All - The Career and the Family,” organized by the bar association’s Women in the Profession Committee.
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01/24/2008
Roy DeCaro Speaks at Philadelphia Trial Lawyers
On January 24, 2008, Roy DeCaro spoke to fellow trial attorneys about the steps he took to help secure the $5,000,000.00 verdict his client received in a recent product liability trial. ...Details >>
11/28/2007
Jury Awards $2.9 Mil. for Death Stemming from Blood Clot
A Philadelphia jury awarded $2.9 million to the wife of a bariatric surgery patient who died from a blood clot that traveled to his lungs after his post-surgical leg blood clots allegedly went untreated for 10 days. The verdict was in the Legal Intelligencer’s list of the Top 50 Verdicts and Settlements of 2007....Details >>
11/06/2007
$5 Million Verdict Upheld in Phila. Infant Tylenol Case
A Philadelphia judge has upheld a $5 million verdict rendered over a 1-year-old’s death allegedly due to liver failure from an overdose of Infants’ Tylenol....Details >>
09/12/2007
Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law scheduled for October 9, 2007
Professor Michele Bratcher Goodwin, visiting professor of Law at the University of Chicago, will be the featured speaker at the Raynes McCarty Distinguished Lecture in Health Law which is jointly sponsored with Widener University School of Law.
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09/10/2007
Best Lawyers ranks Raynes McCarty #1 In Philadelphia Personal Injury Litigation Firms
Best Lawyers in America is the oldest and most widely respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. It has announced its results for 2008, ranking Raynes McCarty as the Number 0ne personal injury litigation firm in Philadelphia, PA. Recognized for individual inclusion in Best Lawyers were: Marty Brigham, Roy DeCaro, Harold Goodman, Jerry McHugh and Stephen Raynes....Details >>
09/09/2007
Marty Brigham presenting at Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable at Penn Law on October 19, 2007
Marty Brigham will be a featured speaker at the "Visual Legal Advocacy Roundtable" being held at Penn Law School. Marty will discuss his pioneering work on videotape settlement presentations....Details >>
05/04/2007
Federal Judge Lauds Firm’s Donation to Support Center for Child Advocates
Describing it as “an example of our Bar at its best”, United States District Court Judge, Stewart Dalzell commends Raynes McCarty’s $10,000.00 donation to the Support Center for Child Advocates....Details >>
05/01/2007
Marty Brigham honored in world-wide survey
The Legal Media Group ("LMG"), based in London, England, has just announced the selection of Raynes McCarty's Marty Brigham for inclusion in its "2007 Guide to the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers." ...Details >>
03/15/2007
3rd Circuit Affirms $7.4 Mil. Verdict in Suit Against VA
The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a $7.4 million verdict obtained by Raynes McCarty's Jerry McHugh and Regina Foley against the Department of Veterans Affairs stemming from its decision to expel a Delaware County man who suffered from “rage disorder” and just one day later murdered two of his children and two of their friends.
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02/16/2007
Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs
Two Raynes McCarty Attorneys Identified as Top 100 Most Influential People in State Public Affairs...Details >>
02/07/2007
$1,750,000.00 Civil Rights Settlement for Widow of Undercover Officer Killed by Fellow Policeman
On February 2, 2007, Judge Stewart Dalzell approved a settlement by the City of Reading in a civil rights law suit filed by Gerald McHugh on behalf of the widow of a Reading police officer. The undercover officer - Michael H. Wise, II - died on June 4, 2004, when he was struck by a bullet fired by a fellow member of the Reading police force. ...Details >>
01/08/2007
Roy DeCaro and Stephen Raynes selected to be among 500 Best Plaintiff Lawyers
Roy DeCaro and Stephen Raynes were named as being among the 500 Best Plaintiff Lawyers in the United States by the Publication "Lawdragon."...Details >>
12/01/2006
$5 million verdict for child who died from liver damage caused by Tylenol
Roy DeCaro was the lead trial attorney for the family of a one year old child who died from liver failure caused by Tylenol. Mr. DeCaro convinced the jury that the drug company provided misleading and inadequate warnings about the concentration and toxicity of Infants’ Tylenol. The jury awarded the family $5,000,000.00 for the loss of their child. Recently, the trial court rejected the drug company’s request to overturn the verdict. ...Details >>
10/17/2006
Martin Brigham Honored
Martin Brigham received a lifetime achievement award from the Philadelphia area Occupational Safety and Health Project...Details >>
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The Legal Intelligencer
Raynes McCarty Founder Arthur Raynes Dead at 72
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
By: Gina Passarella and Asher Hawkins
Former bar chancellor and prominent trial lawyer Arthur G. Raynes has died at the age of 72.
Mr. Raynes had been suffering from lung cancer for the past six months, but many who were close to him said that his death was unexpected.
Philadelphia Bar Association Executive Director Kenneth Shear said a number of people had known he was ill but thought he was recovering.
“We thought he was on his way to beating this,” he said. “It’s been tough.” Robert C. Heim of Dechert became friends with Mr. Raynes in 1990 when he was chancellor and Heim was chancellor-elect of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
“I have so many wonderful memories of his morning calls to me,” Heim said. “I would laugh because it was like my alarm clock.”
Laugh is just what Mr. Raynes seemed to make others do. Heim said he used to tell Mr. Raynes that if he wasn’t a lawyer, he could have been a stand-up comedian.
“He had a very quick wit with this droll delivery,” Heim said, but added that there was a passion along with his humor.
“I said to Ken Shear,” ‘There’ll always only be one Arthur for me,’” Heim said. “‘When I hear the word Arthur, it’s Arthur Raynes.’”
Most of those who spoke to The Legal about Mr. Raynes said that his speeches and roasts were always anticipated because of his humor.
Allan Gordon of Kolsby Gordon Robin Shore & Bezar had known Mr. Raynes for more than 40 years and said that he probably had the best sense of humor and overall was just a “sweet guy.”
Mr. Raynes, founder and senior partner of the Philadelphia law firm of Raynes McCarty, represented high profile and catastrophically injured clients for more than 45 years.
He was perhaps best known for his 17-year representation of more than 50 Canadian and American children who were born with severe birth defects in the 1960s as a result of their mothers’ ingestion of the drug thalidomide during pregnancy.
“He became a hero in Canada where a lot of [affected people] were from,” Gordon said.
Some of the other noteworthy cases that Mr. Raynes successfully handled was his representation of the estate of Jessica Savitch, the NBC national news anchor who drowned in an automobile accident in New Hope, PA; his representation of the families of 46 oil riggers who were killed in a Boeing Chinook helicopter accident at an oil rig off the coast of Scotland; and his representation of 1,354 Spanish HIV-infected hemophiliacs and their families who contracted HIV as a result of defective blood products.
Mr. Raynes served as co-counsel negotiating the largest wrongful death settlement from a private person in U.S. history for the family of the Olympic wrestler David Schultz who was murdered by John E. DuPont.
“He was the penultimate Philadelphia lawyer,” friend Howard Gittis, vice president of McAndrews & Forbes Holdings, said. “He never wanted to be anything else.”
Gittis met Mr. Raynes in 1960 at the 3rd Circuit Judicial Conference and said they became fast friends. He said that not only was Mr. Raynes a great trial lawyer, but he was very adept at putting together his presentations for the jury.
Arthur was an absolute master of orchestrating and pulling all of that together,” Cozen O’Connor chairman Stephen A. Cozen said. Cozen said he got to know Mr. Raynes through his stature in the community, and eventually they appeared against each other in various cases. He said that no one ever had anything negative to say about Mr. Raynes.
“Arthur Raynes is a legend.” Cozen said. “He is the absolute epitome of what everyone should be: intellectually brilliant, articulate, [with a] great sense of humor and even a greater sense of humanity.”
Richard Sprague of Sprague & Sprague met Mr. Raynes as his opposing counsel in a case that he described as a “battle royale.”
It’s not too often that when lawyers bitterly fight one another that they recognize the skills and the decency of an opposing lawyer,” Sprague said.
Alan Feldman, current chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association, started his 10-year span working with Mr. Raynes in 1977 when the firm was Raynes McCarty & Binder. Feldman said that when Mr. Raynes heard that Feldman and his wife never went on a honeymoon, he paid for them to take a trip to the Dominican Republic.
He said Mr. Raynes was like a father to him.
Others in the community had equally strong feelings concerning Mr. Raynes.
“He was the most charming man I ever met,” Shear said. ‘He knew what he wanted, but he told you in such a gentle way - - he was gentle in the best sense of the word, a gentleman.”
Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. of Raynes McCarty was co-counsel with Mr. Raynes on the David Schultz case.
“He was one of my role models,” McHugh said. “Art was a giant of the trial bar and not just because of his ability but because of his integrity and generosity.”
Many pointed to Mr. Raynes’ dedication not only to the legal profession, but his family.
“Notwithstanding his professional accomplishments, he was a family man first and foremost;” his son and colleague Stephen Raynes said. “Anyone who came to his office, or who knew him, knew that he was a grandfather, a Poppy, husband and father before anything else.”
Mr. Raynes was a fellow and board member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and member of the American Board of Trial Advocates.
In 2004, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers featured him in its book, History of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers: Legends, along with only 33 other lawyers from around the world.
Mr. Raynes graduated from Duke University in 1956 and received his law degree from Temple University School of Law in 1959. At Duke University, Mr. Raynes was a catcher on the baseball team and a goalie on the soccer team.
He also served on the board of directors of the YMCA, the Philadelphia Heart Institute, the Philadelphia Geriatrics Center, Moss Rehabilitation Hospital, the Ronald McDonald House, Children’s Hospital, the Lawyer’s Division of the Federation of Jewish Agencies and the Jewish Publication Society.
He served as a faculty member of Temple University’s Beasley School of Law’s master’s degree program in trial advocacy and has a lecture hall there named after him.
Mr. Raynes is survived by his wife of 47 years, Diane; his children, Nancy Dubow, Michael Raynes, Stephen Raynes and Lizabeth Raynes; and his four grandchildren, David Dubow, Alex Dubow, Lily Ann Raynes and Katie Raynes. He is also survived by his sister Judith Bernstein.
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