The Firm was founded in 1985 by a small group of attorneys from major Philadelphia firms and government practice. The Firm's senior litigators, who began to practice in the late 1960s and 1970s, gained much of their early experience in antitrust and securities cases. That experience taught them how to handle class action and other complex litigation.

The Firm began its practice as national counsel for a major building products manufacturer in asbestos property damage litigation. We used our senior litigators' experience in handling complex litigation to manage a coordinated nationwide defense in state and federal courts across the country. The depth of our attorneys' experience enabled us efficiently to manage this complex, document intensive litigation and create a sophisticated, streamlined defense. We became particularly skilled in selecting and working with experts to marshal the medical-scientific evidence on which the defense of modern toxic tort claims is based. Notably, we obtained defense verdicts in the first two asbestos property damage cases ever tried to conclusion before juries and went on to earn a successful win-loss record in this litigation.

Since the early years of the Firm, when the major part of our business was in the toxic torts litigation area, our practice has steadily grown and diversified. The Firm is skilled in complex civil and litigation at both trial and appellate levels in courts throughout the United States. Our litigation experience includes: