Richard H. Maurer is a partner in the Litigation Department.  His diverse practice includes the defense of construction defect claims, maritime torts, products liability cases, class actions and insurance coverage matters. 

Mr. Maurer has represented general contractors in construction defect actions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Alabama.  In the field of class actions, he has defended large and small companies named as defendants in consumer and mass tort product liability claims.  Mr. Maurer has also represented manufacturers of automobiles, forklifts and industrial packaging machinery in product liability cases.

For two years before entering private practice, Mr. Maurer was an assistant public defender, representing indigent criminal defendants at trial.  While in private practice, he has defended, pro bono, cases referred by the Pennsylvania Volunteers for the Indigent Program and by the Pennsylvania ACLU.  In June 2005, Mr. Maurer won a jury trial defense verdict for a Pennsylvania VIP client in a case involving serious allegations of aggravated assault and DUI.

Mr. Maurer earned a Master's performance degree in cello from The Juilliard School in 1989 and an undergraduate degree in cello from the Manhattan School of Music in 1987.  In 1988, he was the principal cellist of the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival Orchestra, under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache. Mr. Maurer received his J.D. in 1993 from the Georgetown University Law Center. He is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and to federal courts in each of those states.  An Adjunct Professor at Albright College, Mr. Maurer teaches Criminal Procedure and Constitutional Rights.