Maureen M. McBride
Partner
- Appellate
- Litigation
Co-chair of the firm’s Appellate Department and member of Lamb McErlane’s Litigation Department and the Firm’s Executive Committee, Maureen Murphy McBride concentrates her practice on appellate law and commercial litigation in state and federal courts. Named a “fifteen year” Super Lawyer, Maureen provides counseling and advice to a wide array of corporate clients and individuals.
Prior to joining Lamb McErlane in 1997, Maureen worked for a number of years at Schnader Harrison where her practice focused on appellate work as well as complex commercial litigation and product liability claims.
Maureen is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Advocacy Committee and frequently shares her experience with her fellow attorneys through the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s continuing Legal Education courses. Maureen has presented on appellate issues to the Pennsylvania State Trial Judges’ Association conference.
In 2024, Maureen was appointed Chair of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas Local Rules Committee. In 2023, she was appointed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as Chair of the Civil Procedural Rules Committee and she is currently Co-Chair for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Advocacy Committee. In 2011 she was appointed to serve on the PA Supreme Court’s Committee on Rules of Evidence where she served as Chair from 2016-2018. Maureen also served a six year term as a Hearing Committee member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Previously, Maureen served as Vice-Chair and Treasurer for the Pennsylvania Lawyer’s Fund for Client Security and was a member of the Merit Selection Panel to recommend candidates for United States Magistrate Judge. Maureen is also an active member of the Inn of Court of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law.
Maureen is involved in her local community, she served as a member and a past president of the Board of Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping homeless or near homeless families in Chester County stabilize their lives and find or maintain permanent housing.
OTHER PRACTICE AREAS:
- Product Liability Law
ADMISSIONS:
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court of the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
EDUCATION:
- Villanova University School of Law, JD
- King’s College, BA – Communications and English
COMMUNITY SERVICE & AFFILIATIONS:
- Co-Chair, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Advocacy Committee
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee
- Chair, Chester County Court of Common Pleas Local Rules Committee
- Former Chair, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Civil Procedural Rules Committee
- Former Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Former Chair, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Committee on Rules of Evidence 2016-2018
- Former Member, Merit Selection Panel for the Appointment of United States Magistrate Judge
- Former Treasurer, Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security
- Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee
- Member, Chester County Bar Association Civil Litigation Section
- Lecturer, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
- Past President of the Board & Member, The Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children
AWARDS/RECOGNITION:
Rated by Super Lawyers
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- Recognized as a Super Lawyer since 2006, a 2022 Top 50 Women in Pennsylvania by Super Lawyers and a Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyer.
- Named ‘Best of the Bar’ 2020 by the Philadelphia Business Journal
- Named 2019-2024, ‘Best Lawyer’, Best Lawyers in America©
- Named a 2020-2023 Five-Star/Top Attorney by Suburban Life Magazine
- Main Line Today Top Lawyer 2022
- Main Line Today Top Lawyer 2021
- Main Line Today Top Lawyer 2020
- Main Line Today Top Lawyer 2018
- Main Line Today Top Lawyer 2017
- Named America’s Most Honored Lawyer 2020-2024, by the American Registry
- Named a 2021,2023,2024 “Best Lawyer” in Chester County by the Daily Local News Readers’ Choice
- Featured in Vista.Today, Chester County Leadership: Maureen McBride, Partner at Lamb McErlane
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS:
- Successfully represented physician practice group and physician in convincing Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reverse the Superior Court and dismiss claims on Statue of Limitations grounds
- Successfully represented a local college in a Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in a Title IX appeal.
- Successfully represented a physician, practice group and health system in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $40 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice/birth injury case.
- Successfully represented a national spine clinic in the reduction of a $20 million judgment by more than $10 million in a medical malpractice case.
- Successfully represented a major Philadelphia hospital and a physician in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $19.5 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case.
- Successfully represented a home health care company in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in the reversal of a $12 million judgment.
- Successfully represented an attorney in an appeal before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $1 million sanction award.
- Successfully represented an estate in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the reversal of decision which in turn allowed the taxpayer to potentially avoid approximately $1 million in IRS interest and penalties.
- Successfully represented a group home in an appeal before the Superior Court resulting in the remand of a case involving a $3 million judgment.
- Successfully represented a medical staffing company in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a Superior Court decision resulting in a finding that the company owed no duty of care to patients from an out-of-state hospital who contracted hepatitis C from a staffing company former employee years after the company terminated him.
NEWS:
- Lamb McErlane PC partner Maureen M. McBride is Appellate Counsel for Mitsubishi in its post-trial challenge to the $976 million Amagasu verdict. McBride is quoted in a Legal Intelligencer article. Read more here.
- ‘Passion and Prejudice’: Mitsubishi Seeks to Overturn Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Verdict. Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride on Mitsubishi’s Appellate Team
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners Maureen M. McBride & James C. Sargent Achieve Significant Victory for Health Care Providers in $40M Birth Injury Case
- Philadelphia Business Journal Names Maureen McBride and Kathleen Bell ‘Best of the Bar’ 2020
ARTICLES:
- Maureen McBride was quoted in a recent Legal Intelligencer article, ‘Pa. High Court Reversal Rate of Superior Court Rulings Has Plummeted, Report Shows’.
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In the News
- Penn Hospital Says $200m Judgment Imperils Local Care. Law360 Article with Comments From Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Appointed Chair of Chester County Civil Court Rules Committee
- Twenty-One Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as 2025 Best Lawyers in America© & Ones to Watch
- Twenty-Eight Lamb McErlane Attorneys Voted 2024 ‘Top Lawyers’ of Chester County by Daily Local News Readers’ Choice
- Twenty-Two Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Named 2024 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Justices Consider Health Care Providers’ Liability for Denied Care Under the Mental Health Procedures Act – Partner Maureen McBride Quoted
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride Quoted in Legal Intelligencer Article, ‘Pa. High Court Reversal Rate of Superior Court Rulings Has Plummeted, Report Shows’.
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride Quoted in Recent Legal Intelligencer Article; Unanimity Is Rare on Pa Supreme Court, Data Reveals
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride is Appellate Counsel for Mitsubishi in its Post-Trial Challenge to the $976 Million Amagasu Verdict
- ‘Passion and Prejudice’: Mitsubishi Seeks to Overturn Nearly $1B in Defective Seatbelt Verdict. Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride on Mitsubishi’s Appellate Team
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride a Presenter at the Pennsylvania Superior Court Symposium
- Nineteen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as 2024 Best Lawyers in America© & Ones to Watch
- Twenty-Eight Lamb McErlane Attorneys Voted 2023 ‘Top Lawyers’ of Chester County by Daily Local News Readers’ Choice
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Appointed Chair of the PA Civil Procedural Rules Committee
- Subcontractors Stripped of $3.2M Judgment, Hit With Attorney Fees in Pa. Appellate Reversal. Lamb McErlane attorneys Maureen McBride and Andrew Stafford Represented WPHS and SDSP in Appeal
- Twenty-One Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Named 2023 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen M. McBride a Panelist at the PBA’s 2023 Midyear Meeting on PA Appellate Courts
- Thirty-Two Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as “Top Attorneys” in Suburban Life Magazine
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners Achieve Significant Victory for Health Care Providers in Pa. Supreme Court
- Thirty-Four Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as “Top Attorneys” by Suburban Life Magazine
- Sixteen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America© & Ones to Watch 2023
- Thirty Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as 2022 Main Line Today ‘Top Lawyers’
- Twenty-Eight Lamb McErlane Attorneys Recognized as 2022 “Top Lawyers” by Daily Local Readers
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Appointed Vice-Chair of the PA Civil Procedural Rules Committee
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen M. McBride Recognized by Super Lawyers as a 2022 Top 50 Women in PA and a Top 100 Philadelphia Super Lawyer
- Twenty-One Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Named 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers & Rising Stars
- Lamb McErlane PC Celebrates its New Oxford Location with a Ribbon Cutting
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen M. McBride a Panelist at the PBA’s Midyear Meeting on PA Appellate Courts
- Thirty-Six Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as “Top Attorneys” by Suburban Life Magazine
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Provides Commentary on the PA Supreme Court’s December Oral Arguments on PCN
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Served as a Moderator for the PA Appellate Courts Candidates’ Forum
- Sixteen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America & Ones to Watch 2022
- Chester County Leadership: Maureen McBride, Partner at Lamb McErlane PC Featured in Vista.Today
- Twenty-Nine Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as 2021 Main Line Today Top Lawyers
- Twenty-Eight Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as 2021 “Best Lawyers” in Chester County
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Quoted on Appellate Cases in Law360 Midyear Report
- Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Score Major Victory for Client in a Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act Case
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Presents to the American Inns of Court-Justice William Strong on “Pennsylvania Appellate Law & Practice”
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen M. McBride Appointed Co-Chair for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Appellate Advocacy Committee
- Eighteen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Have Been Named 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Allows Decision Reversing $40 Million Jury Verdict to Stand
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners Achieve Significant Victory for Health Care Providers in Medical Malpractice Case
- Thirty-Eight Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Named Suburban Life Five-Star / Top Attorneys
- Philadelphia Business Journal Names Maureen McBride and Kathleen Bell ‘Best of the Bar’ 2020
- Seventeen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Recognized as Best Lawyers in America© & Ones to Watch 2021
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners Achieve Significant Victory for Health Care Providers in $40M Birth Injury Case
- Twenty-Four Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Named 2020 Main Line Today Top Lawyers
- Health Law Newsletter – Summer 2020
- Nineteen Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Have Been Named 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Will My Business Income Policy Protect Me For Losses Due To COVID-19?
- Lamb McErlane PC a Silver Sponsor of the Friends Association’s West Chester Charity Ball
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Speaks at the Pennsylvania Physicians Legal Issues Conference
- Thirteen Lamb McErlane PC Lawyers Recognized as The Best Lawyers in America© 2020
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Twenty-Six Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2019 Main Line Today Top Lawyers
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Appointed by the PA Supreme Court to Serve on the Civil Procedural Rules Committee
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners James Sargent & Maureen McBride are Course Planners at the PBI Program on Advanced Appellate Advocacy, Presenting Complex Appeals in the PA Courts
- Lamb McErlane PC Proudly Supports Friends Association & the 30th Annual West Chester Charity Ball
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Ten Attorneys Recognized in the Best Lawyers© in America 2019
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Twenty-Two Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2018 Main Line Today Top Lawyers
- Health Law Newsletter Spring 2018
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Thirteen Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2018 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and One Rising Star
- Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Quoted in Pennsylvania Law Weekly Article
- Lamb McErlane Partner John J. Cunningham IV Elected to the Firm’s Executive Committee
- Lamb McErlane PC Sponsors the West Chester Charity Ball
- Health Law Newsletter – Fall 2017
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Sixteen Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2017 Main Line Today Top Lawyers
- Lamb McErlane PC Partners Maureen M. McBride and James C. Sargent Co-Present at the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges
- Lamb McErlane Announces Twelve Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2017 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
- Lamb McErlane PC Sponsors the West Chester Charity Ball for Friends Association
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride Named Chair of the Committee on Rules of Evidence by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
- Lamb McErlane Donates School Supplies to the Salvation Army of West Chester
- Maureen McBride & James Sargent Prevail in PA Appellate Court for Defense Attorney Nancy Raynor
- United States Supreme Court Holds a Defendant Need Not Obtain a Favorable Judgment on the Merits to be a Prevailing Party under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen M. McBride Reappointed as a Hearing Committee Member for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of PA
- The PA State Supreme Court Declines to Hear Further Arguments in the Pomroy v. Hospital of the University of PA Medical Malpractice Case
- Lamb McErlane Announces Eleven Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2015 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Maureen McBride and Jim Sargent pushed to file a motion in PA Superior Court to temporarily halt nearly $1 million in penalties against defense lawyer Nancy Raynor
- Attorneys at Lamb McErlane PC Win Significant Victory for University of Pennsylvania Doctor
- Maureen M. McBride has been Reappointed to the PA Supreme Court Rules of Evidence Committee
- Lamb McErlane Announces Thirteen Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2014 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
- Lamb McErlane PC Announces Nine Firm Attorneys Have Been Named 2013 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Three Rising Stars
- Supreme Court Releases Restyled PA Rules of Evidence
- Maureen M. McBride Elected to the Board of the Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children
- Lamb McErlane Announces Fourteen Attorneys Have Been Named 2012 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
- Lamb McErlane Partner Appointed By PA Supreme Court
- What Does The Public Have A Right To Know About Gaming Applicants?
- When a Win is Not Good Enough
- In Latest Round Of 16 Year Old Litigation, Lamb McErlane Announces That The Supreme Court Has Ruled In Favor Of Its Client, H&R Block
Articles Posted
- Less Trials, Less Appeals: Caseloads Plunged in Pennsylvania’s Appellate Courts- Lamb McErlane Partner Maureen McBride Quoted in Legal Article
- Lamb McErlane PC Attorneys Score Major Victory for Client in a Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act Case
- PA Superior Court Addresses Scope of PSQIA and PRPA
- PA Superior Court Urges the Supreme Court to Revisit its Decisions Involving the Peer Review Protection Act
- Can I Recover My Attorneys’ Fees If I Win On Appeal?
- Pa. Appeals Court Slashes Award; Finds Jury Went Too Far With $10 Million Verdict
- Will My Business Income Policy Protect Me For Losses Due To COVID-19?
- Drifting Away From Precedent? Some See Pa. Supreme Court Upending Established Case Law. Lamb McErlane PC Partner Maureen M. McBride Quoted in the PA Law Weekly Tort Talk
- Health Law Newsletter Spring 2018
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Case Involving Admissibility of “Risks and Complications” Evidence
- Health Law Newsletter – Fall 2017
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court Decision Results in Sweeping Change to Informed Consent Law
- United States Supreme Court Holds a Defendant Need Not Obtain a Favorable Judgment on the Merits to be a Prevailing Party under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Are Appeals Courts Showing More Mercy for Procedural Errors?
- Successfully represented a physician, practice group and health system in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $40 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice/birth injury case.
- Successfully represented a national spine clinic in the reduction of a $20 million judgment by more than $10 million in a medical malpractice case.
- Successfully represented a major Philadelphia hospital and a physician in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $19.5 million jury verdict in a medical malpractice case.
- Successfully represented a home health care company in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County in the reversal of a $12 million judgment.
- Successfully represented an attorney in an appeal before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a $1 million sanction award.
- Successfully represented an estate in the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in the reversal of decision which in turn allowed the taxpayer to potentially avoid approximately $1 million in IRS interest and penalties.
- Successfully represented a group home in an appeal before the Superior Court resulting in the remand of a case involving a $3 million judgment.
- Successfully represented a medical staffing company in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in the reversal of a Superior Court decision resulting in a finding that the company owed no duty of care to patients from an out-of-state hospital who contracted hepatitis C from a staffing company former employee years after the company terminated him.