Wallace, Ian Hamilton

Thomas P. Wagner is a litigation and trial lawyer with more than 30 years experience. He concentrates his practice on the defense of casualty and product liability cases, as well as the defense of municipalities. His practice is focused primarily on the state and federal courts of Eastern Pennsylvania and the surrounding Mid-Atlantic region. 

Mr. Wagner was twice voted by his peers as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania, a state with more than 56,000 attorneys. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer seven times in succession. He has written numerous articles and presentations on topics related to civil litigation. He also served as a senior editor of a three-volume guide to pre-trial practice in the Federal Courts of the Third Circuit published by Lawyers' Cooperative Publishing Company. He has served on the executive board of the Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel, and he has been appointed as a Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. 

With strong ties to his community, Mr. Wagner is vice president of the Town Council in Upper Darby Township, PA, and a board member for the Upper Darby Industrial Development Authority. He has been a board member of the Delaware County Authority since 2001, and he served on the board of directors for Wheels of Wellness, a non profit organization, from 2001 to 2007.

Mr. Wagner graduated cum laude from Fairfield University in 1974 with a Bachelor's Degree in Politics. He attended law school at St. John's University where he was an editor of the law review. Following law school, he served a clerkship with the Honorable J. William Ditter, Jr., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He joined the law firm of Rawle & Henderson at the end of his clerkship in 1980, and served for over a decade on Rawle & Henderson's Executive Committee.  Mr. Wagner joined Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin in 2007 as a shareholder in the firm's casualty practice, and he now manages one of the three major casualty groups in Philadelphia.  He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and New York.

Significant Representative Matters:

• Philadelphia Zoo Fire Litigation - Successful representation of target defendant in catastrophic fire loss.

• Artificial Heart Litigation - Achieved dismissal of client defendant in complex medical device product liability case.

• Plunto v. Wallenstein - Defense verdict in multi-defendant civil rights trial.