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JOHN J. HARE
John is a member of Marshall Dennehey P.C.’s three-person Executive Committee, which is responsible for the firm’s daily
operations and management of more than 500 attorneys across 19 offices in seven states. He also serves as chair of the
Firm’s seventeen-attorney Post-Trial and Appellate Advocacy Practice Group. As appellate counsel, John has litigated
more than 500 appeals in state and federal appellate courts, representing individuals, corporations, and insurers in many of
Pennsylvania’s highest-profile civil appeals.
John is actively involved in the Pennsylvania legal community. He has edited and co-authored two books on Pennsylvania
appellate courts. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684-2017, was published by the
Pennsylvania State University Press in 2018. Keystone of Justice: The Pennsylvania Superior Court, 1895-1995, was published
by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 2000. He also serves by appointment of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania as
the co-chair of the Court’s Historical Commission and on the Commission on Judicial Independence. He is a Fellow of the
American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, an invitation-only group of America’s top 500 appellate lawyers, and he spent six
years on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s Civil Procedural Rules Committee, the last two years as chair. He serves on the
advisory board of Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence (Lexis-Nexis), regularly speaks at appellate court events
and continuing legal education seminars, and previously served on the Board of Governors of the Bar Association of the
Third Federal Circuit and as co-chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute.
