Neil O'Donnell

Email: ntod@odonnell-law.com

Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Product Liability Law; Workers' Compensation Law, Bad Faith; Premises Liability; Truck Collisions

Admitted: 1987, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania; 1990, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

College: King's College, B.A., summa cum laude, 1984

Law School: University of Pittsburgh, J.D., cum laude, 1987

Member: Luzerne County (Executive Committee)
Pennsylvania, American and Federal Bar Associations
Wilkes-Barre Law Library Association
The National Trial Lawyers
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
Northeastern Pennsylvania Association for Justice (Member, Board of Directors; President 2001)
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association

Biography: Associate, Baskin, Flaherty, Ellitoo & Mannino, Philadelphia, PA, 1987-1990
O'Donnell Law Offices, 1990-Present
Lecturer, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, assorted topics, including:
"Underinsured Motorist Practice and Procedure," March, 1995
"Auto Law Update," November, 1995
"Bad Faith Insurance Practices," November, 1996
"Civil Litigation Update," November, 1996
"Pennsylvania Auto Law," November, 1997
"Civil Practice in Northeastern Pennsylvania," April, 1998
"The New Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence," August, 1998
"Pennsylvania Auto Law Update," December, 1999
"Pennsylvania Auto Law Update," December, 2000
"Examination of Vocational and Expert Witnesses," June, 2001
"Bad Faith Update," December, 2001
"Civil Practice in Northeastern Pennsylvania," April, 2002
"Bad Faith Update," December, 2002
"Bad Faith Update," December, 2003
Court Appointed Trial Master in the Luzerne County Special Trial Masters Program
The Pennsylvania Society
Fellow of the National College of Advocacy
The Roscoe Pound Society
Senior Counsel: American College of Barristers College of Master Advocates and Barristers
The Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Member, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, Bar Relations Committee
Court Appointed Mediator, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Round Table Participant, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee on Racial and Gender Bias in the Justice System, November, 2001
Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy
"Bad Faith Update," December, 2004
"Bad Faith Update," December, 2005
Distribution Dilemma March, 2006
2004 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer
2005 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer
2006 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer
2007 Litigation Counsel of America
2007 Multi-Million Dollar Advocate
2007 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, listed in Top 100
2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, listed in Top 10
2009 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, listed in Top 100
2010 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, listed in Top 100
2011 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, listed in Top 100