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Peter Neeson

 
Partner - Rawle & Henderson
 
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Company Name : Rawle & Henderson
 
Company Website : www.rawle.com
 
Company Address : 140 Broadway
46th Fl., New York, NY,
United States,
 
Peter Neeson Profile :
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Peter Neeson Biography :

Mr. Neeson, a practicing trial attorney for 26 years, is Chair of Rawle & Henderson’s Environmental, Toxic and Mass Torts Department where he concentrates his practice in those areas. As part of his departmental responsibilities, Mr. Neeson has been involved in the defense of numerous toxic tort matters in multi-district and class action cases in both state and federal courts, including, but not limited to, formaldehyde, multiple chemical sensitivity, sick building, latex glove, benzene, underground storage tank, orthopedic bone screw, pharmaceutical and asbestos litigation including the defense of over 3,000 such cases against a major manufacturer. He has also participated in the defense of several generators in CERCLA superfund cases. Mr. Neeson has been the National Coordinating Counsel for a major insurance carrier in the FRT litigation and has current National Coordinator responsibilities in the asbestos, latex glove and the PPA pharmaceutical drug litigations. Mr. Neeson is a frequent writer and speaker on litigation issues and is the author and/or editor of a number of publications, including his efforts as the editor and co-author of a 1995 ABA-TIPS book on the Comprehensive General Liability Policy. Mr. Neeson is the past Chair of Products, General Liability and Consumer Law Committee of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, member of its governing Council, and five years ago spearheaded the development of the National Trial Academy in conjunction with the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. Utilizing state of the art technology, the National Trial Academy is widely recognized as the premier forum of its kind in which to train young lawyers how to try jury trials. In February of 2004 Mr. Neeson was elected as Vice Chair of the Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section. He will assume the chairmanship of this ABA Section in August of 2006. Mr. Neeson is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and a past member of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Association of the Defense Counsel. Among his pro bono activities, Mr. Neeson was Vice Chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee for Eastern Pennsylvania, a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Sports Congress, the City’s civic/business facilitator for the promotion and development of sporting events in the City, past President of the Philadelphia Amateur Sports Corporation, General Counsel and a member of the Executive Committee for Philadelphia Women’s Basketball 2000, the local organizing committee for the NCAA Women’s Final Four basketball tournament and most recently as an Executive Committee Member for the 2003 U.S.G.A. Women’s Amateur Golf Championship held in Philadelphia. Mr. Neeson graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.S. in Aero Space Mechanical Engineering in 1970 and from the University of Miami (cum laude) with a J.D. in 1978. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York, and has been rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Neeson was individually honored when he was selected by his peers in an extensive nomination and polling process conducted by Law & Politics as one of Pennsylvania’s Super Lawyers for 2006, 2005 and 2004.

 
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