Mike Magee has a diverse litigation practice representing clients in all phases of complex commercial matters from case filing to discovery, summary judgment, and resolution. His experience includes high-value contract disputes, mass tort, products liability claims, oil and natural gas exploration disputes, qui tam actions, and computer software development matters.
Mike has particular experience representing and advising clients with respect to oil and natural gas leasing terms and zoning disputes. Mike has also worked extensively with experts in software design, testing, coding standards and metrics, and project management. Mike's recent representations include the defense of a pharmaceutical company in nationwide opioids litigation, and the defense of Chevron against product liability lawsuits filed as part of a federal MDL (multidistrict litigation), a coordinating proceeding in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, and in Washington State court. His representations include IBM, U. S. Steel, Allergan, Oklahoma Gas & Electric, Experian, and PennEnergy Resources.
Mike has researched extensively and written on the topics of pooling and unitization and implied covenants and their impact upon oil and natural gas development in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays, as well as on Pennsylvania civil procedure and federal multidistrict litigation.
Mike is actively involved in the Firm's pro bono activities, having represented incarcerated individuals, charities in tax exemption disputes, religious entities in First Amendment disputes, and victims of police brutality.
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- 2021
LexisNexis, Pennsylvania Pre-Trial Practice Guide, Chapter 3: Initiating a Civil Action. - December 2020
Thomson Reuters, Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts 4th, Chapter 14: Multidistrict Litigation
- June 5, 2014
The Best Laid Plans: Oil and Gas Lease Litigation in Pennsylvania, YPE Energy Industry Training Series - February 7 and 8, 2013
Shale 101: Introduction to Business and Legal Developments in the Appalachian Basin, Jones Day Pittsburgh
- Pennsylvania State University (J.D. summa cum laude 2012; Articles Editor, Penn State Law Review; Woolsack Honor Society); Colgate University (B.A. magna cum laude 2009)
- Pennsylvania, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, and U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Pennsylvania