Mr. Lawn focuses his practice on representing individuals and families who have suffered serious injuries or death as a result of wrongful acts of others.  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 recent verdicts include a $23 million jury verdict in a Philadelphia medical malpractice case arising from a delay in starting needed medications in an Emergency Room; a $9.7 million medical malpractice arbitration verdict for a York County child left deaf and blind from a delayed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis; a $7.5 million verdict for a mentally challenged man provided improper medical care at a Bucks County hospital; and verdicts of $2.9 million in Philadelphia and $1.65 million in Middlesex, NJ in complicated wrongful death cases.  In addition to those verdicts, Mr. Lawn has secured significant settlements for his clients in several settings, including recent settlements of $10 million and $2.5 million for children with cerebral palsy as a result of medical negligence at the time of their births; a $5 million pre-trial settlement in Montgomery County for a death due to malpractice.  He 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, and co-counseled with his partners to secure a $5 million settlement for a painter seriously burned by contact with a power line at a work site.

Mr. Lawn has repeatedly been named a Top 100 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer based upon the voting of lawyers throughout the state.  He has been inducted as a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers; selected for inclusion in Best Lawyer in America and 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 is an adjunct professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law where he teaches a class on advanced trial advocacy to law students.  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 more than three hundred thousand 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 children.  In 2008 he was placed into Bishop McDevitt High School Alumni Hall of Fame.  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.

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