Steve Pachman

About Steve Pachman

I am Managing Partner and Co-Chair of Montgomery McCracken, firm Hiring Partner, and Chair of the Catastrophic Sports Injury Practice Group. I routinely handle business and personal injury matters and have extensive litigation experience in a wide variety of industries including pharmaceutical and life sciences, higher education, and sports medicine.I regularly defend traumatic brain injury (TBI) and catastrophic sports injury cases and represent individuals and school systems in matters arising out of alleged premature return-to-play decisions and other negligence and product liability theories in the sports’ context.My representations include a number of high-profile, nationally-publicized concussion, TBI, heat stroke, and general negligence and product liability cases against NCAA member colleges and universities, high schools, and school personnel, including athletic trainers, coaches, physicians, and nurse practitioners. These include cases involving catastrophically-injured football players and other athletes who allegedly sustained prior concussions and Second Impact Syndrome as well as players diagnosed with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE).I also advise school officials and attorneys, risk managers, athletic departments and their staff, and health care professionals on institutional liability issues concerning sport-related concussions, CTE, Second Impact Syndrome, heat stroke, and other sport-related injuries.I am a frequent speaker on the defense of TBI cases and legal matters concerning the proper management of sport-related concussions and other sport-related injuries, and have authored a number of articles on the topics of how to minimize the risk of legal liability for sport-related injuries and defend against lawsuits arising out of catastrophic sport-related events.I have been quoted by national media, including ESPN, The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC News, and CBS Sports, and guest lectured at colleges and law schools, including the University of Michigan, the University of Oklahoma, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Maryland, Villanova University, and Virginia Tech. I have presented before the NCAA, the Big 10, the Big 12, the Ivy League, the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, the College Athletic Trainers’ Society, and the American Academy of Neurology.

Experience

1. Managing Partner

   Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP

   May 2001 — Present · Philadelphia, PA, US

   I am a partner in the Litigation Department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP and a member of the Firm\'s Management Committee. My practice concentrates on complex commercial litigation, personal injury and the defense of traumatic brain injury cases in particular, white collar criminal cases and investigations, contract disputes, and appellate matters.

Education

• Temple University School of Law

  J.D., Cum Laude

  1993 — 1996

• University of Maryland

  B.A., Pre-Law, Summa Cum Laude

  1989 — 1993

Skills

• Arbitration
• Legal Writing
• Litigation
• Negotiation
• Civil Litigation
• Employment Law
• Toxic Tort
• Trials
• Bankruptcy
• Class Actions
• Personal Injury Litigation
• Trade Secrets
• Insurance Law
• Business Litigation
• Appeals
• Commercial Litigation
• Trademarks
• Dispute Resolution
• Product Liability
• White Collar Criminal Defense
• Mediation
• Corporate Law
• Insurance
• Torts
• Legal Research
• Intellectual Property
• Concussions
• Appellate Practice
• Personal Injury
• Securities Litigation
• Courts