Prominent Cases
Mr. Unterberger has taken a lead role or participated in many high profile cases, including:
- Exxon Valdez (oil spill)
- Three Mile Island (radiation exposure)
- Marjol Battery (lead injury)
- Cabell v. Exxon (benzene in groundwater)
- Norplant & Dalkon Shield (defective contraceptives)
- Fen Phen (diet drug injuries)
- AcroMed Bone Screws (orthopedic injuries)
- Holocaust Survivors (assets recovery)
- Mark Ygalla Hedge Fund (high profile Ponzi scheme)
- Vine Street Expressway (business losses from Philadelphia's largest construction project)
- Artisan Entertainment (valuation dispute over company that produced Terminator movies)
- World Trade Center (9/11 contractor clean up disputes with New York City)
- Johnson & Johnson Acuvue (mislabeled contact lens)
- Rhone-Poulenc Rorer (failure to screen donor blood for HIV)
- Benneville v. York (seminal Delaware corporate case on
demand excusal where board deadlocked)
- In re Oxford Health Plans, Inc. (principal lead plaintiff case under federal securities act)
- Baldassai v. Suburban Cable (unfair cable TV late fees)
- Guenther v. SEDCO (groundbreaking worldwide tax and wage equalization litigation)
- Labrum & Doak v. Brown (leading case on successor law firm liability to lenders)
- Levy v. Janetta (leading case on lack of informed consent in medical malpractice action)
- Clark v. Falls Township (Section 1983 defense)
- Germantown Insurance Company v. Martin (widely cited
case determining intentional conduct under homeowners policy)
- Amato v. University of Pittsburgh (multiple wrongful death case involving foreign travel, profiled in USA Today and Eye to Eye with Connie Chung)
Biography
Mr. Unterberger was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has been admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as the Eastern and Middle District Courts of Pennsylvania, the District Court of New Jersey, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Claims, and the United States Supreme Court. He has been admitted to practice in cases around the country.
He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and Boston College Law School, where he was a member of the law review.
Mr. Unterberger has taught legal writing and trial practice at Temple University Law School and Widener University Law School, and frequently lectures to lawyers and bar associations, including the National Business Institute and the Association of Corporate Counsel of America. He has also contributed to several legal publications, web sites, blogs and broadcasts, including LexisOne (LEXIS-NEXIS), Law.com, Law Technology News, Daily Journal (Los Angeles, San Francisco), Legal Intelligencer (Phila.), Delaware Law Weekly, National Jurist, Boston Herald, National Legal Marketing Association, Central New Jersey Talk Radio, , Dunlap-Hanna Pennsylvania Legal Forms and Pennsylvania and New Jersey Personal Injury Law Web Logs. He has served as both a state arbitrator and international (WIPO) arbitrator for internet domain name disputes.
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