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Michael Daly is an associate in the firm's Commerical Litigation Practice Group who joined the firm in 2001 following a clerkship with the Honorable James M. Kelly of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. His practice concentrates on class action litigation, complex commercial litigation, and appellate litigation.
Class Action Litigation. Michael has extensive experience defending class actions, particularly those involving wireless telephone and cable television enterprises. He has represented a wide variety of clients in cases involving issues such as sales practices, billing practices, products liability, service interruptions and service quality. He has also helped coordinate and maintain various multidistrict litigation proceedings and secure a transferee court’s injunction of parallel state court litigation.
Complex Commercial Litigation. Michael has a broad range of commercial litigation experience, having defended corporations and their officers in contractual and corporate disputes in various state and federal courts across the country. He has served a wide variety of clients, from small businesses to multinational corporations.
Appellate Litigation. Michael has considerable appellate experience on a wide range of matters. His appellate briefs have resulted in the affirmance of a decision that absolved a client of alleged successor liability in connection with a complex corporate transaction, and the reversal of decisions that failed to enforce an arbitration agreement, failed to enforce an exclusion of liability in an asset purchase agreement, and failed to grant a new trial in light of an excessive jury award.
In General. Michael graduated cum laude from Bucknell University with honors in English. He graduated magna cum laude from the Villanova University School of Law, where he was a managing editor of articles for the Villanova Law Review, a member of the Villanova Chapters of the Order of the Coif and Phi Delta Phi, a recipient of the Steven P. Frankino Distinguished Service Award, a legal intern for the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the author of "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor," Your Collaterally Estopped Masses? Guilty Pleas and Collateral Estoppel of Alienage in Criminal Proceedings , 44 VILL. L. REV. 671 (1999). He is a member of the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Bar Associations and the J. Willard O’Brien American Inn of Court. | 