MEYERSON & O'NEILL - Key Persons
Debora O'Neill obtained her J.D. from Villanova University in 1981 and has extensive experience in the prosecution and defense of complex civil litigation.
Debora O'Neill brings to the firm over 25 years of litigation and trial experience in commercial and complex civil litigation in state and federal court in a wide variety of cases. An important area of her practice involves the prosecution of serious and life altering injury cases resulting from use of household products, industrial machinery, pharmaceutical drugs and dietary supplements. A substantial portion of Debbie's practice is also devoted to the counseling, resolution and litigation of employment separations and severance pay, coupled with the issues often created by non-compete and restrictive covenant agreements.
Experience
Debora O'Neill has extensive experience in complex commercial and tort litigation in state and federal court, including federal multidistrict litigation. She has obtained substantial recoveries, including some of the firm's largest multi-million dollar settlements, for clients in her many years of practice in the litigation of product liability claims involving machinery, household goods, over the counter products, and pharmaceutical drugs. She also brings to the firm and its clients extensive experience in both the prosecution and defense of class actions including actions involving contracts, consumer fraud, consumer products, credit reporting and securities. Debbie's commercial litigation experience spans cases involving a wide variety of business problems including contract and sales actions, shareholder and partnership disputes, construction and building disputes, and collection of receivables.
Debora O'Neill regularly represents clients in cases involving business torts, including interference with contractual relations, fraud claims, unfair competition, and misappropriation of customers, assets and intellectual property. These types of disputes often present the need for injunctive relief and temporary restraining orders requiring fast paced litigation on a compressed schedule. Debbie has successfully resolved and obtained recoveries and relief for minority shareholders and terminated employees, providing compensation for their interests as well as assuring their ability to pursue future employment.
Education
Debora O'Neill received her law degree from the Villanova University School of Law in 1981. She attended Penn State University, where she majored in Architecture receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in 1978.
Debora O'Neill is admitted to the bars of the states of Pennsylvania (since 1981) and New Jersey (since 2001). She is also admitted to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Over her many years of practice, she has been specially admitted to practice for cases in a number of other federal and state courts. Debbie is a member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations and has been assigned Martindale-Hubbell's highest AV rating.
Practice Areas
Litigation of complex civil cases involving serious personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, pharmaceuticals, dietary supplements, commercial and contract litigation, minority shareholder disputes, business disputes, business torts, defamation, employment claims, and post-employment non-complete and restrictive covenant cases.
Jack Meyerson obtained his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972 and served as a Senior Trial Attorney with the Department of Justice Public Integrity Section and as an Assistant United States Attorney for six years. Jack is well known for his public corruption prosecutions.
Jack Meyerson founded and has managed this firm for more than 20 successful years. The firm, under Jack Meyerson's direction, is a boutique firm which specializes in the litigation of complex civil, criminal and commercial cases. Jack has served as lead trial counsel in more than a dozen cases involving personal injury and products as well as prescription drugs and dietary supplement claims, professional negligence (legal and medical malpractice) in which the awards obtained exceed $1 million. Jack Meyerson speaks fluent Italian and has represented Italian nationals and business firms in a variety of international litigation disputes).
Meyerson & O'Neill prides itself in providing big firm quality litigation representation without inflated, duplicative charges and costs. The lawyers at Meyerson & O'Neill have extensive trial experience in both Federal and State Courts.
Experience
Jack Meyerson personally brings more than 35 years of trial experience to this litigation practice. He began his career as a highly successful Assistant United States Attorney and a Special Trial Attorney with the United States Department of Justice - Public Integrity Section - specializing in the trial of white collar crime and corporate fraud. Over the past 25 years, Jack Meyerson has litigated a variety of major federal criminal trials, including tax frauds, mail fraud and conspiracy. He has also successfully handled a variety of complex civil and commercial cases including million dollar civil claims involving personal injury, product liability, wrongful death, prescription drugs and dietary supplements. Jack Meyerson has also litigated lawsuits on behalf of minority shareholders, partnership disputes, breach of contract claims, corporate fraud and international trade litigation.
Most recently, in 2008, Jack Meyerson served as the lead counsel in a successful trial in which the firm obtained a preliminary injunction to enforce a restrictive covenant in a real estate lease on behalf of a company that owns a chain of convenience stores and a second injunctive proceeding on behalf of a real estate development firm which was defrauded out of the opportunity to develop a major condominium project and settled a medical malpractice claim for a woman who sustained permanent digestive damages following gall bladder surgery.
Education
Jack Meyerson graduated from Princeton University, the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs cum laude in 1969. He obtained his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1972.
Jack Meyerson has developed a national reputation as an effective trial attorney. He is admitted to practice in the Courts of Pennsylvania since 1972 and in New Jersey since 1990 as well as in the United States District Courts or the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the District of New Jersey and the United States Courts of Appeals for the 3rd and 9th Circuits. Additionally, Jack Meyerson has been specially admitted to try litigation cases in a number of US District and State Courts throughout the United States including the District of Columbia, California, North Carolina, Colorado, Western Washington and state courts in Delaware and West Virginia.
The firm has been admitted to membership in the International Network of Boutique Law Firms which is an association of credentialed specialized firms spanning the globe. In 2009, Jack Meyerson assumed the Presidency of the Philadelphia Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms.
Practice Areas
Litigation of complex civil cases involving legal malpractice, personal injury, products liability, wrongful death, pharmaceuticals, medical malpractice, corporate fraud and abuse, business disputes, commercial litigation, civil rights and state and federal criminal defense particularly defense of white collar crime cases.
Prior to attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania, Matt worked in the regulatory wing of the oncology department at Bristol-Myers Squibb. While working at Bristol-Myers Squibb, Matt acquired an insider's understanding of pharmaceutical marketing and FDA regulations. Since joining Meyerson & O'Neill, Matt has put his knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry to good use by representing clients who were injured by defective pharmaceutical drugs.
While he was still in law school, Matt gained significant experience in employment law while he worked as a legal intern at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where he helped many low-income Philadelphia residents receive unemployment benefits that had been wrongfully denied. Matt has also represented criminal defendants throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey at both the trial and appellate level.