Harry M Byrne

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Associate

  Firm Name

  Duane Morris LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Products Liability: Defended Baxter Healthcare Corporation in a products liability matter that involved a claim of product defect in their flagship dialysis products
  obtained complete dismissal of all claims with prejudice. Baker v. Baxter Healthcare Corporation et al.
  Representation of manufacturers of implanted medical devices
  biologics in hundreds of product liability cases nationwide, in individual
  consolidated proceedings.
  Representation of Class I railroad in defense of claims alleging traumatic injury, wrongful death,
  mass actions arising from claims of occupational exposure
  cumulative injury, as well as in crossing
  trespasser-related accidents.
  Defended Class I railroad in trespasser cases alleging personal injury. Martinez v. CSX Transp., Inc., No. 13-cv-7305 (E.D. Pa.)
  Witcher v. CSX Transp., Inc., No. 17-cv-4563 (E.D. Pa.)
  
  Ward v. CSX Transp., Inc., No. 19-cv-01029 (E.D. Pa.)
  Obtained dismissal of Class I railroad for lack of st
  ing in wrongful death case involving claims of occupational exposure. Long v. CSX Transportation, Inc.
  Commercial Litigation: Obtained, on behalf of an employee of Stevens Insurance, an order vacating
  dissolving an ex parte temporary restraining order entered against the Stevens employee. The Court then dismissed a subsequent motion for a preliminary injunction, leading the plaintiff to voluntarily dismiss their claims. ECBM, LP v. Chance, No. 20-cv-00830 (E.D. Pa.).
  Secured, on behalf of Globus Medical, Inc., the denial of a motion for a preliminary injunction filed against four Globus employees by their former employer, for alleged violations of the employees' non-competition agreements with their former employer.
  Obtained on behalf of the Graham Company, a commercial insurance broker, a settlement in which the company received favorable settlement
  consent injunction barring a former employee from soliciting clients
  most prospects for two years.
  Obtained summary judgment for a major bank in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in an action seeking $10 million in damages against the bank for breach of a deposit agreement resulting in an alleged raid of customer assets by dissident executives.
  Pro Bono: Obtained a decision from the Board of Veteran Appeals reversing
  rem
  ing a decision of the Regional Office of Veterans' Affairs that had denied a petition for service-connected benefits of a US Navy Veteran. On rem
  , we obtained an award of back-dated benefits for the veteran, in addition to an increased monthly rate of future benefits.
  Obtained plenary guardianship of a 21-year-old disabled woman in a pro bono representation on behalf of her mother
  primary caregiver.
  Represented the Pennsylvania Bar Association as an amicus curiae in a case before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which vacated the suspension of a Magisterial District Judge, as a result of ticket-fixing charges,
  held that the high court has the power to suspend judges who are charged with a felony for conduct on the bench.