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Firm Affiliation
Founding Shareholder
Summary of Experience
Edward J. Wilbraham graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1968 and from Villanova University Law School in 1974. After eleven years spent gaining extensive litigation experience as a Philadelphia County Assistant District Attorney, Mr. Wilbraham joined a large regional law firm in 1985. As a senior associate, he practiced insurance defense law, handling both bodily injury and property damage cases. Mr. Wilbraham founded the firm in 1989; he has served as its president since its inception. Mr. Wilbraham is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, West Virginia and Texas. He has tried to verdict more than a hundred civil jury cases. He serves as national trial counsel to several Fortune 500 corporations and conducts his trial work in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Texas and Virginia.
Selected Individual Accomplishments
 Was lead counsel for the West Virginia Consolidated Mass Asbestos Tort Trial held in September and October 2002. This trial group consisted of 8,000 Plaintiffs. Of particular note, Mr. Wilbraham represented the Amchem Corporation and after four full weeks of trial, the court granted our client's Directed Verdict motion in all 8,000 claims.
Was co-lead counsel on a national trial team in the highly publicized mass trial of over 1,200 plaintiffs who filed claims for asbestos-related injuries in Newport News, Virginia. These cases settled after presenting the defense experts.
Has been lead counsel in many mesothelioma trials in New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland and Texas.
For the last seven years, Mr. Wilbraham has been one of six Panel Counsel Members of the International Association of Special Investigations Units (Fraud Investigations). He has authored several cover-page articles in their publication SUI Awareness.
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Publications/Seminars/Lectures
Article (co-author): Surveillance: Is the Law Changing on Discoverability?, published in the SIU Awareness, Fall 2005.
Article (co-author): Privacy, Surveillance & the Law: Guidelines for Investigators & Claims Examiners, co-written with Larry Henning, Sr. Vice President of MJM Investigations, Inc., October 2004.
Article (co-author): Picture This, A Look Into the Murky Waters of Surveillance on the Sly, published in the SIU Awareness, Fall 2004.
Article (co-author): What One Hand Giveth, The Other Hand Taketh Away: Privacy Law After the Patriot Act and HIPAA, published in the SIU Awareness, September 2003.
Speaker: American Law Institute/American Bar Association (ALI-ABA) - Asbestos Law and Litigation, December 6-7, 2002. Article: The Defense Trial Lawyer's Perspective on Cutting Issues and Controversies.
Article: Have The Reports on Idiopathic Mesothelioma Reached Critical Mass? A survey of the existing research in the context of the asbestos/mesothelioma paradigm, published by Defense Research Institute, 2002 in connection with the DRI's Defense Practice Seminar, Asbestos Medicine, November 2002.
Speaker: Seminar sponsored by IASIU, September 10, 2002, in Albuquerque, NM. Article: Stay in the Loop: Privacy and Surveillance Issues You Need to Know.
Article: Crime of the Time: Cyberstalking, the lead article in the SIU Awareness, December 2000.
Speaker: Seminar Andrew's Asbestos Conference, November 30-December 1, 2000, Washington, DC. Article: A Lawyer's Perspective on Retrospective Exposure Analysis.
Article: Let's Talk Stalking: When Does Your Investigation Cross the Line, published as the cover article in the SIU Awareness, September 1999.
Article: Verifying Violations, published in the SIU Awareness, December 1998.
Article: Looking for Trouble: Pre-trial Discovery of Video Surveillance, published in the SIU Awareness, September 1998.
Manual (co-author): Surveillance in an Insurance Claim: Managing a Covert Surveillance, published in connection with the joint PLRB and the CPCU Society Claims Conference in Chicago, April 5-8, 1998.
Admissions
Pennsylvania - 1974
New Jersey - 1977
New York - 1999
West Virginia - 2002
Texas - 2004
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania - 1977
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania - 1989
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey - 1989
United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio - 1989
United States Court of Appeals of the Third Circuit - 1989
United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia - 2002
Education
Villanova University Law School, J.D. - 1974
University of Notre Dame, B.B.A. in Finance - 1968
Professional Affiliations
Defense Research Institute
Panel Counsel Member of the International Association of Special Investigations Units
John Peter Zenger Law Society
Personal Information
Born March 9, 1946
Married to Lisa Wilbraham, 4 children
Member, United States Army, 1969-71, Sgt
University of Notre Dame Soccer Team, 1965-67
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