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Practice Areas
Litigation
Education
Widener University School of Law, J.D., cum laude (1992)
College of William and Mary, B.B.A. (1989)
Admissions
Pennsylvania
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Memberships
Member, Board of Directors, Art-Reach
Member, Phi Kappa Phi
A. Grant Phelan is a trial lawyer practicing in the firm's Litigation Department. He has broad experience in both federal and state courts at the trial and appellate levels and has also represented clients in Alternative Dispute Resolution forums. Mr. Phelan has authored numerous articles and has frequently been asked to lecture on a wide variety of topics.
His practice involves litigating a full range of commercial matters including contract cases, shareholder and partnership disputes, securities fraud, intellectual property, trade secrets, restrictive covenants and business fraud. His more recent representations include:
Obtained an injunction barring deceptive advertising practices by a business competitor on behalf of a financial institution with $33 billion in assets;
Obtained a mandatory injunction for the payment of monies against a content distributor who had upstreamed all of its assets to a parent corporation;
Successfully intervened, briefed and argued insurance coverage issues on behalf of the committee of unsecured creditors for a medical facility resulting in summary judgment and a determination of coverage in excess of $4 million;
Successfully defended and settled claims against a high tech company in the provision and exercise of stock options;
Successfully barred the dissemination and use of confidential and proprietary information through a Temporary Restraining Order and Preliminary Injunction;
Successfully settled claims of defamation, tortious interference with business relations, commercial disparagement and civil conspiracy following five days of trial in federal court;
Obtained a defense verdict before a private arbitration panel in a construction dispute on behalf of a regional contractor;
Successfully secured the dismissal of a product manufacturer during the pleading phase of civil litigation alleging strict liability from defective design, defective manufacture and failure to warn through preliminary objections to plaintiff's complaint;
Served as co-lead counsel in the successful prosecution and trial of a civil action alleging trademark infringement, theft of trade secrets, and violations of restrictive covenants;
Successfully asserted a constitutional challenge to a criminal indictment emanating from Pennsylvania's Wage Payment and Collection Law resulting in dismissal of charges.
Articles:
Author, "Effective Trial Presentation"
Author, "Application of Spoliation Doctrine in Manufacturing Defect Cases"
Author, "Pennsylvania Premises Liability Update"
Author, "A Summary of Pennsylvania Law" | 