Antitrust, Class Action Defense, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Mass Tort Claims
Chemical Manufacturing, Computer Software, Financial Services, Fuel Refining / Production, Utility / Energy Companies
New Jersey, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Georgetown University Law Center
Mount Holyoke College
Mary F. Platt is a former vice chair of the Litigation Department at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads, LLP in Philadelphia. In her diverse practice, she represents clients in commercial cases, including class actions, and antitrust, insurance coverage, contracts, environmental, toxic tort, and intellectual property cases. Ms. Platt has also served as a mediator in mediation programs sponsored by the state and federal courts.
Ms. Platt's presentations include Strategies for Litigating Class Actions, Philadelphia Bar Association Bench Bar Conference - 2006, What's Protected Under the Attorney Client Privilege, City of Philadelphia Law Department CLE Program, July 2002; Recent Developments & Hot Topics, Philadelphia Bar Association, Federal Bench Bar Conference, June 2002; Courtroom Etiquette and the Civility Code, Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division "3L's: Law, Life, and Lunch" lecture series, June 2001; and New Code of Civility, PBI-PBEC "Ethics Potpourri" seminar, April 2001.
Ms. Platt chairs the Law Practice Management Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association. She served as treasurer for the Philadelphia Bar Association, and has been a member of its Board of Governors and the Chancellor's Cabinet for eight years. She served as the Philadelphia Bar Association's assistant treasurer and chair of the Association's Federal Courts Committee, City Policy Committee and Women in the Profession Committee. She is a judge pro tem in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. Ms. Platt is a trustee of the Women's Law Project.
Ms. Platt is admitted to practice before the state courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, the federal courts for the District of New Jersey and the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Ms. Platt earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. in 1979. A graduate of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, Ms. Platt received a B.A. degree, cum laude, in 1974. She worked for the U.S. Department of Housing Development's Regional office in Philadelphia for two years after graduation from college.