Thomas F. Reilly

Thomas F. Reilly graduated from St. Joseph's Preparatory School in 1969, St. Joseph's University in 1973 and Temple University School of Law in 1977. He served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Charles A. Lord of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas from 1977 until 1978. Mr. Reilly was a founding partner and shareholder at Gallagher, Reilly and Lachat from 1982 until 2000 and a partner with Swartz Campbell LLC from 2000 until 2011. Mr. Reilly is involved primarily in the defense of serious personal injury matters for insurers and self-insureds as well as commercial litigation (employment contracts, contractual disputes, negotiation of purchase agreements). His personal injury cases primarily involve products liability (commercial products such as forklifts, trucks, and other industrial equipment as well as consumer claims involving various small appliances, exploding or defective glass products, food products, etc.), construction accidents involving both workers and bystanders, commercial premises liability (such as slips, trips, and falls, failure to provide adequate security such as ATM assaults or tenant assaults, the infamous Pier 34 collapse, etc.), dram shop liability (hotels, banquet facilities, nightclubs, restaurants, pubs, etc.), commercial vehicular liability and private vehicular liability. Mr. Reilly has handled hundreds of seven and eight figure cases over his 30 year career as a trial lawyer. Mr. Reilly has a keen interest in trial advocacy, having received a Diploma in Teaching Advocacy Skills from the National Institute for Trial Advocacy in March of 1997. Since 1995 he has been on the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy's MidAtlantic Deposition Program, Taking and Defending Depositions, at Temple University School of Law. He was also certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, an organization accredited by the American Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, in September of 2000 and recertified in 2005 and 2010. In 2006, Mr. Reilly was initially named a Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer every year since 2006. Awards and Honors Honors Super Lawyer by Philadelphia Magazine, 2006

• Attorney

• Honorable Charles A. Lord of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas , Judicial Law Clerk, 1977 - 1978
• Gallagher, Reilly and Lachat, Partner, - 2000
• Swartz Campbell, LLC, Partner, 2000 - 2011

• MidAtlantic Deposition Program, Taking and Defending Depositions, National Institute For Trial Advocacy, Philadelphia, PA, 1995 - Present
• Representative Clients
• Harleysville Insurance Group
• Wachovia Corporation
• Modern Group, Ltd.
• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
• Avis Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc.

• Beswick v. Maguire
• Citation: 748 A.2d 701
• Court: Pa. Super.
• Year: 2000
• Estate of Masi v. Oriente
• Citation: 790 A.2d 347
• Year: 2001
• Simmers v. American Cyanamid
• Citation: 576 A.2d 376
• Year: 1990
• Greisser v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.,
• Citation: 761 A.2d 606
• Gorniak v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.,
• Citation: 888 F.2d 481
• Court: 3rd Cir.
• Year: 1989

• New Jersey, 1989
• Pennsylvania, 1977
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Specialties and Certifications
• Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 2000

• Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel (Member)
• Pennsylvania Defense Institute (Member)
• Philadelphia Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section; Section of Litigation (Member)
• American Association for Justice (Member)
• Pennsylvania Association for Justice (Member)
• Brehon Law Society (Member)