Marion Munley

Senior Partner

Widely recognized as one of the nation’s most prominent and respected truck accident lawyers, Marion Munley is known for her compassionate approach to representing the catastrophically injured and her tireless devotion to her clients and their families. Through her advocacy, she has won many multimillion-dollar recoveries for her clients including one of the largest trucking accident settlements in history. Marion is Triple Board Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in Civil Trial, Civil Practice, and Truck Law. Since 2023, Marion has been named a Top 10 Super Lawyer in Pennsylvania by Super Lawyers.

Serving injured individuals who need help navigating the legal system requires empathy and passion, characteristics that inform her daily practice. Marion treats each client like a member of her family. Today, Marion keeps photos of her clients on her office door to remind her that her victories are not merely symbolic—they represent real outcomes that can potentially change lives.

A leader in the legal community, Marion is an active member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and is currently the AAJ Secretary. She was the first woman to become Chair of the AAJ Trucking Litigation Group in 2018 and is a past chair of the AAJ Women Trial Lawyers Caucus. Marion has also served as President of the Melvin M. Belli Society.

Marion is the second woman in Pennsylvania to become Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is the first woman in Pennsylvania to become Board Certified in Truck Accident Law by the NBTA. Among her other professional affiliations are the American Board of Trial Advocates, the International Society of Barristers, and the Summit Council, an exclusive group of today’s top civil justice attorneys committed to the highest levels of trial advocacy, to obtaining justice for individuals and families who have been hurt by corporate wrongdoing, and to the protection of the civil justice system.

During her career, Marion has received some of the highest honors a lawyer can receive. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® since 2012, Marion has been named the 2024 “Lawyer of the Year” for Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs in Northeastern Pennsylvania. Marion holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell and she has been consistently recognized as one of the “Top 50 Women Lawyers in Pennsylvania” in Super Lawyers Magazine.

A graduate of Temple University School of Law, Marion received her undergraduate degree from the University of Scranton. When she’s not at work, Marion enjoys time with her husband, former U.S. Representative Matthew Cartwright, their two sons, Jack and Matt, and their dog, Yankee Doodle Dandy. She golfs, travels often, and is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Speaking Engagements

Telematics In a Truck

February 17, 2025
AAJ 2025 Winter Convention

Ethical Considerations When Working with Co-Counsel and Referring Attorneys

July 22, 2024
AAJ 2024 Annual Convention

Power of Persuasion

June 7, 2024
66th Annual West Virginia Association for Justice Convention & Seminar

Pennsylvania Practice Program: Auto and Trucking Cases.

April 17, 2024
New Jersey Association for Justice Boardwalk Seminar 2024

Trucking A- Z

April 6, 2024
Women in Trial Travel Summit

What You Want to Look For in Trial to Use in Closing

February 23, 2024
Houston Trial Lawyers Association

Rule of 3

December 14, 2023
AAJ Trucking Litigation Group Members Only Seminar

Keys to Persuasion

November 9, 2023
Iowa Association for Justice Annual Convention

Pivoting to a Different Trial Strategy: A Case Study.

July 14, 2023
Melvin M. Belli Society 75th Annual Seminar

The Rule of 3: Industry Standard or Make Believe

June 5, 2023
360 Advocacy Auto, Truck, Damages Extravaganza

Lessons in Persuasion

April 28, 2023
New Jersey Association for Justice

Women in Leadership: Empowering One Another

April 28, 2023
Connecticut Women Trial Lawyers Association

Persuading Butchers, Bakers, and Candlestick Makers: Using Liability and Lay Witnesses to Prove Damages

October 14, 2022
The Sidney T. Marable Arizona Association for Justice Annual Conference

Jury Trials in a Pandemic (Opening Statement)

September 13, 2022
Pennsylvania Bar Institute Persuasion Skills for Trial Success Webcast

Advocacy Track : Demonstrative Evidence: Using Visual Storytelling to Prove Damages.

February 15, 2022
AAJ Winter Convention

Truck Crash Cases A-Z

January 15, 2021
Indiana Trial Lawyers Association

Docs on Video: Making the Most of Medical Testimony

November 11, 2021
Maryland Association for Justice’s Auto Negligence Seminar

Persuasion in Tractor Trailer Cases

October 9, 2021
Melvin M. Belli Society Annual Seminar

Discovery Issues in Trucking Cases

June 29, 2021
New Jersey Association for Justice Boardwalk Seminar 2021

Using the defendants’ words and documents to win your truck case

June 9, 2021
Western Trial Lawyers Association Summer Seminar

Using the Defendants’ Words Against Them to Develop Your Trial Story

June 8, 2021
Kentucky Justice Association

Latest in Crash Technology and Social Media

May 19, 2021
Pennsylvania Association for Justice 39th Annual Auto Law Seminar

Making Sure the Case Keeps Moving

May 10, 2021
American Association for Justice New Lawyers Bootcamp webinar

Jury Trials in a Pandemic (Focus on Opening Statements)

March 25, 2021
Faculty, Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Persuasion Skills for Trial Success webcast

Trial sequencing: What do we need to consider to tell the right story?

February 11, 2021
Attorneys Information Exchange Group

The Daubert Decision: Where Do We Go From Here?

January 19, 2021
Maryland Association for Justice

Setting Up Your Trial Story In a Truck Case

December 10, 2020
Washington State Association for Justice Winter Conference

Ethical Considerations of Co-Counseling and Other Recent Ethical Issues

December 4, 2020
South Carolina Association for Justice Advanced Trial Lawyer College Auto Tort Seminar

Setting Up Your Trial Story with Key Admissions from the Safety Director and Corporate Representative

November 19, 2020
Attorneys Information Exchange Group, Virtual Symposium

Using the 30(b)(6) of the Safety Director to Set up Your Trial Story

October 28, 2020
Minnesota Association for Justice: Framing and Trying the Trucking Case

Truck Crash Cases: What You Absolutely Need to Know to Persuade the Jury

August 12, 2020
Melvin M. Belli Society Free Webinar Series

Teeing Up for Trial: The Last 60 Days Before Trial

July 17, 2020
The Trial School’s Champions of Trial Boot Camp

Ethical Considerations of Co-Counseling and Other Recent Ethical Issues

July 13, 2020
American Association for Justice Amped Up

Who besides the client and experts do you call as damages witnesses?

July 8, 2020
Pennsylvania Association for Justice Annual Retreat, Women Trial Lawyers Section CLE: Maximizing Non-Economic Damages at Trial

Preparing the client for his/her day in Court; what to do; what not to do

July 8, 2020
Pennsylvania Association for Justice Annual Retreat, Women Trial Lawyers Section CLE: Maximizing Non-Economic Damages at Trial

The Latest in Crash Reconstruction Technology

February 8, 2020
American Association for Justice Winter Convention

Key Written Discovery in the Truck Crash Case

September 13, 2019
Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys Annual Symposium

Utilizing Your Experts in Preparing for and Attending the Defense Depositions

September 13, 2019
Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys Annual Symposium

Framing the Tough Liability Truck Crash Case

July 27, 2019
Trucking/Bus Litigation Group CLE Program, American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Exaggerated Liability: Punitive Damages in Truck Cases

July 26, 2019
Melvin M. Belli Society, American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Infotainment Centers: Obtaining the Information You Need

July 26, 2019
American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Trucking Litigation A-to-Z

June 6, 2019
Mississippi Association for Justice

Trucking Litigation A-to-Z

April 2019
Arkansas Trial Lawyers Association

A Practical Guide to Handling a Trucking Case

May 4, 2018
Pennsylvania Association for Justice Annual Auto Law Seminar

Using Electronic Data Recorders

April 26, 2018
360 Advocacy Auto Crash Litigation 5.0

Truck Accident Cases from A to Z

February 21, 2018
Atlas Lawyers Seminar

Ethical Considerations of Co-Counseling

February 4, 2018
American Association for Justice Winter Convention

Tractor Trailer Cases are Different: From Investigation to Trial

December 14, 2017
Louisiana Association for Justice CLE Conference

Tried and True Trucking Trial Tactics

December 8, 2017
AAJ Trucking Litigation Group Members Only Seminar

Training: Proper Visual Search and Hazard Perception

September 18 2017
Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys 2017 Annual Symposium

Building the Punitive Damage Case

July 22, 2017
American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Cross-Examination of Key Defense Witnesses in the Tractor-Trailer Case

July 21, 2017
Melvin M. Belli Society Seminar

Collision Investigation and Reconstruction in Motor Vehicle Cases

February 12, 2017
American Association for Justice Winter Convention

The Shell Game, The Deep Dive, The Payoff: Uncovering All the Parties and Finding Hours of-Service and Other Violations to Pursue Punitive Damages

May 6, 2016
Ohio Association for Justice Annual Convention

Demonstrative Evidence: Using Visual Storytelling to prove Damages

February 26, 2016
AAJ Winter Convention

Case Selection: Mistakes to Avoid

February 26, 2016
Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Leadership Summit, AAJ Winter Convention

The Malpractice Risk of Electronic Health Records

August 7, 2015
Association for Healthcare Documentation Integrity Conference

Why Bus Accident Cases are Different from Car Accident Cases

June 13, 2015
American Association for Justice Convention

Video Depositions – How, When, and Why to Use Them

February 25, 2015
American Association for Justice Convention

Preparing for Major Truck Injury Cases

July 25, 2014
Melvin M. Belli Seminar

Corporate Representative Deposition in Truck Cases

2013
Kentucky Association for Justice

Investigating Truck Crashes

2013
American Association for Justice Annual Convention

Investigating Evidence Exhibits in Truck Cases

2022
New Jersey Association for Justice

Leadership in the Law

June 29, 2011
Pennsylvania Bar Institute Seminar

Second Trial Advocacy College: Litigating Truck Collision Cases

2011
American Association for Justice

Discovery in Trucking Cases

October 8, 2010
American Association for Justice, Interstate Trucking Litigation Group Seminar

The Butcher, The Baker, and The Candlestick Maker: Persuading the Jury in Tractor Trailer Cases

July 10, 2010
American Association for Justice, Interstate Trucking Litigation Group Seminar

Review & Update: All the Latest Regarding Federal regulations

2009
American Association for justice Litigating Trucking Seminar

Litigating truck collision cases

2009
American Association for Justice First Trial Advocacy College

Selecting, Investigating, Evaluation, and Settling Personal Injury Cases

2009
Pennsylvania Bar Institute

Unique Discovery Issues in Trucking Cases – Not your Daddy’s Deposition

2009
American Association for Justice Interstate Trucking Litigation Group Seminar

Publications & Related Work

"Punitive Damages in Truck Crash Cases: What the Courts Are Finding Persuasive"

AIEG Voice, Trucking Edition
Spring 2024

"Rule of 3: Industry Standard or Make Believe"

AIEG Voice, Trucking Edition
Spring 2023

"Chapter 9: Commercial Motor Vehicles."

Pennsylvania Rules of the Road, 2021-2022 ed., Volume 13
2021

“Building Equity in the Legal Industry from the Inside Out”

Trial Lawyer Nation
May 2018

"Charting a Course to Justice for Victims of Fertility Treatment Negligence"

The Legal Intelligencer
November 12, 2019

"Retrieving Electronic Crash Data"

Trial Magazine
February 2018

“The Liability of Hospitals and Doctors Printing 3D Medical Devices”

The Legal Intelligencer Medical Malpractice Supplement
2017

“Interconnectedness and Manufacturer Responsibility in Automated Vehicles”

The Legal Intelligencer Personal Injury Supplement
2016

“Corporate Settlement Mills and Victim Compensation”

The Legal Intelligencer
2015

“The Malpractice Risk of Electronic Health Records”

The Legal Intelligencer
2015

“Death of the Jury Trial”

Women Trial Lawyers Caucus Newsletter Connections Count
2014

“Why A-Rod Made Me Love the Constitution More”

American Association of Justice Journal of Interstate Trucking
2014

“Power-Up Your Discovery In Trucking Cases”

Trial Magazine

Pennsylvania Superior Court en banc session

Pennsylvania Cable Network
April 5, 2011

The Law and You

WYOU
2007-2013

Professional Organizations

Litigation Counsel of America

Senior Fellow (representing less than 0.5% of American Lawyers)

International Society of Barristers

Member, 2012-Present

American Association for Justice

AAJ Secretary, 2024-25
AAJ Treasurer, 2023-24
Parliamentarian, 2022-23
Board of Governors
Executive Committee

American Association for Justice Trucking Litigation Group

First woman to serve as Chair, 2017-18

American Association for Justice Women Trial Lawyers Caucus

Past Chair, 2016-17

Pennsylvania Association for Justice

Board of Governors

Pennsylvania Association for Justice Executive Committee

Member

Pennsylvania Association for Justice Executive Committee Women's Caucus

Chair, 2012-2013

American Board of Trial Advocates

Advocate

The Summit Council

Member

National Board of Trial Advocacy

Board of Directors

Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys

Board of Regents

The Judicial Counsel of the Third Circuit

Lawyer Advisory Committee Member

Attorney Information Exchange Group

Member

Melvin M. Belli Society

President, 2022-2023

Contact Marion Munley

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 570-983-3846

Education

  • Marywood University
    Honorary Doctorate, Humane Letters
  • Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
    Juris Doctor
  • University of Scranton
    Bachelor of Arts, cum laude
  • London School of Economics
  • Trinity College
  • Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Notable Cases

  • $32.25 Million Settlement for a tragic airplane crash
  • $26 Million Truck accident victim who suffered traumatic brain injury
  • $20 Million Pedestrian Accident Settlement
  • $17.5 Million Jury verdict in teens’ death caused by car accident
  • $12 Million Bad faith case
  • $11 Million Woman rear ended in road construction by a tractor trailer
  • $9.95 Million Mother hit head-on by a tractor trailer
  • $8 Million Family of a U.S. Marine who was killed in a truck crash
  • $8 Million Settlement for client struck in traffic by out of control tractor-trailer.
  • $6.9 Million Child's brain injured following collision with garbage truck
  • $4.7 Million Settlement for man killed as a result of tractor-trailer crash
  • $4 Million Couple rear ended in road construction by a tractor trailer
  • $4 Million Settlement for truck accident victims
  • $3.97 Million Fatal truck crash
  • $3.8 Million Seriously injured in a truck accident
  • $3.7 Million Settlement for father killed in truck crash
  • $3.25 Million Settlement for man while patient in behavioral unit committed suicide
  • $3.2 Million Settlement for woman misdiagnosed with cancer
  • $3 Million Man rear ended twice by tractor trailer
  • $2.8 Million Woman hit crossing the street in a shopping mall
  • $2.8 Million Settlement for father of three killed when he was struck by box truck
  • $2.25 Million Settlement for driver of a van involved in accident with a truck.
  • $2.2 Million Settlement for man struck by utility company vehicle which went through stop sign
  • $2.1 Million Settlement for woman died during surgical procedure
  • $2 Million Man suffering fatal heart event 24 hours after surgery
  • $1,990,000 Man killed when his vehicle rear ended a tractor-trailer that was traveling the interstate with no lights and flat tire 
  • $1.9 Million Woman struck by car at a community event
  • $1.9 Million Verdict for family injured by 16-year-old-driver
  • $1.6 Million Man hit by tractor trailer turning left
  • $1.5 Million Man pulled into industrial machine
  • $1.5 Million Settlement for man electrocuted at construction site
  • $1.5 Million Jury verdict against bank for breach of verbal loan agreement.
  • $1.5 Million Settlement for School bus driver struck by tractor-trailer
  • $1.4 Million Award for couple injured when tractor trailer jackknifed into their disabled vehicle
  • $1.4 Million Settlement in ER wrongful death case.
  • $1.2 Million Settlement for woman died after misdiagnosis in emergency room
  • $1.2 Million Settlement for boy hit by bus at summer camp
  • $1,050,000  Settlement for woman died following bariatric surgery
  • $1 Million Settlement for a 43-year old man killed on construction work site. 
  • $1 Million Settlement for an elderly man rear ended by truck.
  • $880,000 Student injured on a school trip
  • $850,000 Elderly women injured in transportation from nursing home

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