Marion Munley
Munley Law
227 Penn Avenue
Scranton, PA  18503
570-983-3846
mmunley@munley.com

Licensed in: PA, NY

Education:
Law school: Temple University School of Law, J.D. 1986
Undergraduate degrees: University of Scranton, BA in History, 1983
Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, London School of Economics (Junior year abroad)

Martindale-Hubbell and other legal ratings:
Martindale-Hubbell rating:  AV Preeminent
AVVO rating:  10/10
Super Lawyers (2004-present)
Top 50 Women Lawyers in Pennsylvania (2013-present), Super Lawyers
LawDragon 500 Leading Plaintiffs Lawyers
Best Lawyers in America, 2012-present
Lawyer of the Year, Product Liability Litigation-Plaintiffs, Allentown Metro Area, Best Lawyers, 2017, 2019
Lawyer of the Year, Personal Injury Litigation-Plaintiffs, Allentown Metro Area, Best Lawyers, 2020

Trucking specific organizations and leadership positions and awards:

• First woman chair of the AAJ Trucking Litigation Group
• Top Ten Trucking Trial Lawyers (The National Trial Lawyers)
• Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys (ATAA)
• Board Certified Attorney, Truck Accident Law, 2019 (NBTA)

Law Organizations and leadership and awards:

• International Society of Barristers
• American Board of Trial Advocates
• Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate (NBTA)
• Certified Mediator, United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Diplomat, National College of Advocacy
• Irish Legal 100
• Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
• American Association of Justice:
  • Board of Governors
  • Board of Trustees, National College of Advocacy
  • Vice Chair, Bus Litigation Group
  • Past Chair, Women Trial Lawyers Caucus
  • Past Chair, Trucking Litigation Group
  • Legal Affairs Committee
  • National Finance Council
  • Retirement Committee
  • Audit Committee
  • Evergreen
• Recipient, AAJ "Above and Beyond" Award, 2018 and 2019
• Treasurer, Melvin M. Belli Society
• Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Board of Governors
• Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, graduate and faculty
• Pennsylvania Bar Association: Member, Commission on Women in the Profession
• Recipient, Lynette Norton Award, Pennsylvania Bar Association, 2016

• $26 million - confidential settlement for a truck accident resulting in traumatic brain injury
• $8 million - settlement in case stemming from fatal truck crash
• $3.97 million - settlement for family of man killed in truck crash

Other Important Information: 

• Author, Pennsylvania Rules of the Road, 2018-2019 ed., Volume 13, Chapter 9: Commercial Motor Vehicles. Thompson West, 2018
• Author, "Retrieving Electronic Crash Data," Trial Magazine, February 2018
• Marion travels around the United States delivering many educational presentations each year on trucking topics including: written discovery in a truck crash case; utilizating experts in preparing for depositions; punitive damages in truck cases; obtaining information from infotainment centers and electronic discovery; and "trucking litigation A-to-Z."
• Marion and Munley Law have handled cases in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina, and Oklahoma.
• Munley Law has offices in Scranton, Carbondale, Wilkes-Barre, Stroudsburg, Allentown, and Philadelphia.