Part 1 - Course Staff

Paul F. Laughlin, Esq. Shareholder Marshall Dennehey

Mr. Laughlin is a member of the Health Care Department and serves as co-chair of the Behavioral Health Risk and Liability Practice Group. He began his career as a prosecutor, but in recent years has focused his professional efforts on matters including medical/professional liability defense, corporate/commercial litigation, construction/real estate litigation and civil rights litigation. An active trial attorney, he has tried in excess of 130 cases to a jury verdict. He has successfully defended countless professional liability matters, including a high percentage of medical and legal malpractice cases. He represents physicians, physician groups, nurses, psychiatrists, hospitals, long-term care facilities and veterinarians in medical liability matters and attorneys, law firms and real estate agents in professional liability actions as well as professional licensing prosecutions. Paul also represents builders and contractors in construction cases, as well as government agencies in civil rights cases. A frequent participant in alternative dispute resolution proceedings, Mr Laughlin has received formal training as a mediator through the Pepperdine University Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. He has been selected to serve as a neutral arbitrator and has been certified to serve as an arbitrator in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.