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Wayne
Partenheimer joined Bennett Bricklin &
Saltzburg LLC as counsel in 2006 after
several years in the property department of
a large Philadelphia firm. He previously
worked in-house for more than 17 years for
two major insurance carriers where, in
addition to defending errors and omissions
claims for insurance agents, real estate
agents and surveyors, he handled products
liability and premises liability matters for
a number of other clients. His trial
experience also includes trial of a number
of criminal cases as an Assistant Atlantic
County Prosecutor and in private practice.
Wayne
has been licensed to practice in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania since 1978 and is admitted
to the United States District Courts for the
Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania
and the District of New Jersey, the United
States Courts of Appeals for the Third
Circuit and for the Federal Circuit and to
the United States Supreme Court.
Wayne
is a 1968 graduate of Gettysburg College,
and received an M.S. in broadcasting from
the Newhouse School of Public Communications
of Syracuse University in 1972 where he was
a news reporter for WNDR-AM, "The Rock of
Syracuse," and a stringer for AP Audio's
Empire State Network. After working for
several newspapers, including the old
Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia and the
Courier-Post in South Jersey, he
received his J.D. from Widener University in
1978 where he was a member of the National
Moot Court team.
A
soccer player in college, Wayne is a
past-president of the Medford Strikers
Soccer Club in New Jersey, where he helped
coach four state champions and more than 25
Division 1 college players. He is a former
editor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
magazine, The Philadelphia Lawyer,
and a past president of the William Penn
Charter School Alumni Society.
Away
from the practice of law and soccer, Wayne
is a runner who has completed seven
marathons (and seen his son beat all his
times) and an enthusiastic traveler,
especially to New England and to Germany and
the rest of Europe.
Publications
"Superior Court Limits Notice
Prejudice Rule,"
Counterpoint, April, 2008
"Skier
Falls in Supreme Court Over Form Release and
Assumption of the Risk,"
Counterpoint, November 2010
"Using Social Media in Claims
Investigation,"
Claims Magazine, February 2011
"Discovery
of One's
'Social Networks',"
Counterpoint, October, 2011
“Effective
(and Ethical) Use of the Social Media for
the Agent,” Agent & Broker Interest
Group Newsletter of CPCU Society,
January 2012
“Avoiding
Evidence Spoliation,” Claims Magazine,
April 2012
Presentations
“Discovery of Private
Social Media Sites,” Philadelphia
Association of Defense Counsel Annual
Meeting, June 5, 2012.
“Joint and Several
Liability,” Property Loss Research
Bureau/Liability Loss Research Bureau
Central Regional Adjusters Conference,
Schaumburg, IL, September 5-6, 2012; Western
Regional Adjusters Conference, Dallas, TX,
November 13-14, 2012.
"Social Media in Casualty Claims
Investigation," Property Loss Research
Bureau/Liability Insurance Research Bureau (PLRB/LIRB)
National Claims Conference, Boston,
MA, March 17-20, 2013.
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