John P. Mcavoy, Esquire Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

John P. McAvoy is a shareholder in Zarwin Baum’s Business Practice Group directed by Gary A. DeVito. John concentrates his practice on commercial litigation and has extensive litigation experience in many commercial areas, including employment, banking, professional liability involving attorneys, architects, accountants, and engineers, business torts.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Represent employers in all matters of Labor and Employment litigation, including: hostile work environment, discrimination, and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination; Fair Labor Standards Act claims; Prevailing Wage claims; Employee Retirement.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Followed Managing Partner of Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP’s Philadelphia and New Jersey Offices and select members of Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP’s National Labor & Employment Practices Group to Ward Law, LLC, a startup boutique law firm founded in January 2019;Represented businesses and executives in litigation, arbitration, and negotiation in varied.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Represented employers and several national insurance carriers in labor and employment matters in administrative, state, and federal courts throughout PA and NJ as a member of the national (15 offices; 8 states; 150+ attorneys) law firm’s Labor & Employment Practice Section; Counseled employers on all aspects of the employer-employee relationship with a.

Malvern, Pennsylvania

Represented public and private employers, law enforcement agencies, prisons, municipalities, and similar public entities in commercial litigation, governmental liability and civil rights matters in state and federal courts; Defended companies and their principals in breach of contract cases, partnership disputes, business torts, breach of fiduciary duty.

Mays Landing, New Jersey

Served as the only Judicial Law Clerk assigned to the Chancery Division, General Equity Part of the New Jersey Superior Court in and for Atlantic and Cape May Counties, a position generally occupied by two recent law school graduates per single county;Performed extensive legal research, drafted bench memoranda and judicial opinions in complex commercial.

Wilmington, Delaware

Represented disabled veterans who had been denied benefits for injuries and ailments suffered during and/or subsequent to their service with their appeal to the Board of Veterans’ Affairs;Located key documents to contest the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ unverified recoupment of severance pay in an arbitrarily assigned amount, substantiated the.

Wilmington, DE

Composed discovery documents and dispositive motions in various areas of law, including bankruptcy, construction law, premises, professional and products liability;Drafted motions for summary judgment and related pleadings in defense of products and professional liability claims asserted aga

Widener University School Of Law

Served as lead counsel for victims of extreme domestic violence in Delaware Family Court;Executed all motions, briefs, hearings, client interviews, and negotiations with opposing parties;Devised legal strategies and trial tactics under the supervision of clinical faculty attorneys;Litigated a lifetime Order for Protection from Abuse (restraining order).

West Chester, Pennsylvania

Selected out of approximately 100 applicants as the firm’s only Summer Associate in 2012;Prepared motions and related court pleadings in the defense of three high-profile appeals, including a national corporation’s appeal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to overturn a $187 million jury award entered in favor of class action plaintiffs, a prominent local.

Evaluated and synthesized several hundred commercial real estate leases and contract agreements for numerous corporate clients including, AIG, State Farm, and TD Bank.

Timonium, Maryland

Sold over 30,000 different wireless and mobile communications products for this Baltimore-based, publicly traded company;Managed customer relationships with a primary focus on developing new and underperforming buyer accounts;Promoted after eight months to a more product-specific sales role over several of my colleagues, some of whom had 10+ years of sales.

Learned invaluable customer relationship management techniques from two of Smith Barney’s Wealth Management Vice Presidents while interning during the height of the Great Recession;Assisted with marketing campaigns aimed at clients and prospective clients, warm and cold called potential clients, prepared investment research and facilitated various other.

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

Activities and Societies: Widener Law Review | Delaware Civil Clinic | Veterans Law Clinic | Pro Bono Graduation Distinction | Dean's List

Bachelor Of Business Administration - Bba

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Activities and Societies: Fall Semester Study Abroad Cork, Ireland

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