Welcome
Recently known for fighting City Hall, Bill Murphy has represented mostly individuals and small businesses in civil court proceedings. His background brings together on-the-job training in advocacy under the legendary trial lawyer James E. Beasley, the perspective of judicial clerkships with three esteemed judges, and the academic discipline as a former Associate Professor of Law in such subjects as Federal Jurisdiction, Civil Procedure and Constitutional Law.
Areas of Litigation Practice
General and complex civil Litigation in federal and state court, including personal injury, suits involving governmental units and media, civil rights, fiduciary litigation (estates), contract and employment matters.
| Admitted | 1976, Pennsylvania; 1977, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania; 1982, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; 1989, District of Columbia; 1990, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania |
| Law School | University of Pennsylvania, J.D. |
| Experience | Comment Editor, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Volume 124, 1975-1976. Associate Editor, 1974-1975. Judicial Law Clerk to: Hon. Edward R. Becker, U.S. District Court, E.D. Pa., (Later 3d Cir. C.A. Judge), 1976-1977; Hon. A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., U.S.C.A., 3d Cir., 1977-1978; Hon. Samuel J. Roberts, Pa. Supreme Court, 1978-1979. Assistant and later Associate Professor of Law at St. John's U. School of Law, New York, 1979-81, 1982-83. Associate at the Beasley law firm in Philadelphia in 1980s, included in the firm name in 1988. Lecturer, Products Liability, Temple University School of Law (now Beasley School of Law), 1988-1989. Legal Ed. and later Editor-In-Chief, Pennsylvania Law Weekly, 1994-96. |