Frank is a senior litigation partner and was a founding member of the Deasey, Mahoney and Valentini firm.  He has enjoyed an illustrious career and has more than 100 successful jury verdicts.

Frank currently serves as national coordinating counsel for a major insurer, defending catastrophic construction accidents involving cranes, power cranes and other aerial lift devices. Frank has handled crane litigation in at least 11 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, South Carolina, North Carolina and Washington.

Frank has also gained considerable recognition in the areas of products liability, construction and insurance coverage litigation. For example, in the One Meridian Plaza Fire litigation, which was a notorious fire in Philadelphia, Frank was responsible for the coordination of a joint defense effort against the building owners’ $400 million damage claim. He has also represented excess and surplus lines carriers, evaluating excess exposure and defending the insured in catastrophic injury cases.

Frank has taught numerous trial techniques courses for the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Academy of Advocacy and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA). He speaks regularly at meetings of the Crane and Aerial Lift Subsection of the Defense Research Institute (DRI). A frequent lecturer on insurance coverage, trial advocacy, and products liability defense, Frank has authored a number of articles on these subjects. He is called upon routinely by the firm’s insurance clients to conduct presentations on a variety of insurance coverage issues.

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