Irene McLafferty is an experienced litigator with over 17 years of trial experience. She specializes in the areas of medical malpractice, products liability, motor vehicle negligence and premises liability.

Ms. McLafferty graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1987 and received a law degree from Villanova University School of Law in 1990. From her earliest days as a lawyer, Philadelphia and New Jersey Medical Malpractice Attorney Irene McLafferty has been in the courtroom, first as a law clerk to the Honorable G. Craig Lord in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (1990-1991), and subsequently as an Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1991-1995). While in the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. McLafferty was appointed to head the Juvenile Division of the District Attorney’s Office and then served as the chief of the Sex Crime Division where she was honored with an award for trial excellence.
 

CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Since leaving the District Attorney’s Office, Ms. McLafferty has expanded her expertise and skills as a litigator. She has handled a variety of both general and tort litigation cases with a concentration for the past decade on catastrophic injury cases. She has successfully tried, arbitrated and mediated numerous complex medical malpractice and other personal injury cases throughout the State of New Jersey and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania resulting in substantial awards to her clients.

Ms. McLafferty is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She is a member of the Bars of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She has been involved in many professional organizations including the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Montgomery and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, the Montgomery County Inn of Court and the J. Willard O’Brien American Inn of Court. In 2005, Ms. McLafferty was recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star and has been named to the PA Super Lawyers list every since 2011.

Email: IMclafferty@messalaw.com