Overview
Dylan F. Henry is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He represents businesses and individuals in complex, high-stakes disputes across the country, including commercial litigation, toxic and mass torts, catastrophic injury and property damage, products and premises liability, and insurance coverage matters.
Dylan develops national defense and risk-transfer strategies for manufacturers, insurers, and corporate clients, aligning litigation and settlement approaches with their business objectives. He also advises school officials and attorneys, risk managers, athletic departments and their staff, and health care professionals on institutional liability issues concerning sport-related concussions, CTE, Second Impact Syndrome, heat stroke, and other sport-related injuries.
In Depth
Dylan F. Henry is a partner in Montgomery McCracken’s Litigation Department and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Dylan represents clients in complex, high-stakes disputes across the country. His practice spans multi-party litigation involving catastrophic personal injury and property damage, toxic torts (including talc and asbestos), products and premises liability, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, fraud and fraudulent transfers, veil piercing and successor liability, partnership dissolution and business divorce, professional malpractice, insurance coverage, and employment-related claims.
Dylan has extensive experience coordinating and managing large-scale toxic tort and product liability litigation, developing and implementing national defense strategies for manufacturers, insurers, and corporate clients. He is known for his strategic approach to litigation—balancing aggressive advocacy with practical risk management—and for guiding clients through every phase of dispute resolution, from pre-suit counseling to trial and appeal.
Dylan also advises individuals, schools, and organizations on catastrophic sports injury and concussion-related matters. He counsels clients across the country on the prevention and management of sport-related injuries, including traumatic brain injury (TBI) and sudden-death incidents, and the complex legal duties that arise from them. Dylan and his colleagues are frequently invited to publish and present on these issues at national conferences, universities, and professional associations, and their work has become a trusted resource for institutions and risk managers seeking to reduce risk and strengthen their legal compliance in the sports-medicine context.
Dylan earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from Villanova University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an associate editor of The Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal. He received his B.S. with distinction from The Pennsylvania State University, where he also earned minors in Business and Spanish.
How Dylan Helps
- Complex commercial litigation and successor liability disputes
- Catastrophic injury, products, and premises liability
- Traumatic brain injury and catastrophic sports injury counseling and litigation
- Insurance coverage, indemnity, and risk transfer
- Toxic and mass tort defense, including asbestos, talc, and ethylene oxide
- Real estate, construction, and employment disputes
The Record
Credentials
Admitted to Practice
- New Jersey
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Selected Speaking Engagements
- June 2026 Speaker “Litigation in the Age of AI: Guidance for GCs and Their Teams” ACC Greater Philadelphia
- July 2025 Speaker “Legal Updates for Athletic Trainers” ATI Sports Medicine
- May 2025 Speaker “Legal Case Updates for Athletic Trainers” College Athletic Trainers Society Symposium
- March 2025 Speaker “There’s No Place Like Home: Leveraging Forum Selection Clauses to Stay Out of Oz Post-Mallory” ACC Greater Philadelphia’s Contracts & Commercial CLE Institute
- November 2023 Speaker “Concussion and CTE Litigation: 2023 Update and Beyond” University of Michigan Concussion Center
- September 2022 Panelist
- July 2021 Speaker “College Athletic Trainers Society Spring Symposium for Athletic Trainers & Team Physicians” College Athletic Trainers Society Spring Symposium
- January 2020 Presenter “Traumatic Brain Injury: Litigation & Minimizing Risk” The National Catholic Risk Retention Group’s Winter Meeting
- October 2019 Presenter “Sports Injury Defense – Litigation Trends and Updates” Montgomery McCracken Higher Education Forum
- July 2019 Presenter “Medical-Legal Considerations” American Academy of Neurology Sports Concussion Conference
- June 2019 Presenter “Concussions, CTE, and the Law: Minimizing Legal Risk to the Athletic Trainer” The National Athletic Trainers’ Association’s Intercollegiate Council for Sports Medicine Conference
- May 2019 Presenter “Unresolved Science and Law of Concussion and CTE” The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center’s Sport Concussion Summit
- January 2019 Presenter “Concussions and the Law: Minimizing Risk” Drexel Athletics Concussion Update
- January 2019 Presenter “Concussion Workshop: Medical-Legal Considerations” Eastern Athletic Trainers’ Association Annual Convention, 2019 Sports Related Concussion Summit
- November 2018 Presenter “Concussions, CTE and the Law: Scenarios” The National Catholic Risk Retention Group’s Risk Management and Legal Defense Workshop
- July 2021 Presenter “Hot Legal Topics for Athletic Trainers – Sports Medicine and the Law (CSCA)” College Athletic Trainer Society Spring Symposium for Athletic Trainers & Team Physicians
Selected Publications
- August 2026 Co-Author
- June 2023 Co-Author
- June 2023 Co-Author
- Summer 2022 Co-Author “CTE Heads To The MLS – First MLS Player Diagnosed with CTE” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2022 Co-Author “Diagnosing CTE in the Living—Researchers and the Medical Community Inch Closer to the Goal Line” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2022 Co-Author “Is Youth Football Safe? Recent Study Suggests it Might Not Be as Dangerous as we Once Thought” Sports Medicine and the Law
- March 2022 Quoted
- Fall/Winter 2021 Co-Author “Concussion “Diagnostic” Tools – Technologies Generate Buzz, But Experts Urge Caution” Sports Medicine and the Law
- October 2021 Co-Author
- Summer 2021 Co-Author
- Summer 2021 Co-Author “All Pain, No Gain? Pryce v. Town Sports Int’l, LLC” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2021 Co-Author “Important New Research Shows Practice – Not Game Play – Increases Exposure to Concussion” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2021 Co-Author “Engendering Debate: The Varying State of Transgender Athlete Participation Policies” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2021 Co-Author “Onyshko Appeal Knocked Out by Pennsylvania Superior Court” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Fall 2020 Co-Author “Do You Even Properly Diagnose, Breaux?! Breaux Sues Saints’ Former Team Doctors in Medical Malpractice Lawsuit” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Summer 2020 Co-Author “Pro Wrestlers Fail to Take Down WWE In Brain Injury Tag Team” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Summer 2020 Co-Author “Arrington Settlement Update: Concussion Reporting Process” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Summer 2020 Co-Author “New Bellwether Cases Against NCAA Move Forward in Texas” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Summer 2020 Co-Author “Saved By The Bell—Penn State Dodges Further Litigation in Whistleblower Case” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2020 Co-Author “Experts Go Ten Rounds: How Competing Expert Opinions Can Push A Case to Trial, A Case Study of Thomas v Farrago” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Spring 2020 Co-Author “The Arrington Settlement and Its Implications: What It Says and What It Doesn’t” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Winter 2020 Co-Author “Mind the (Casual) Gap: Plaintiffs’ Experts Fail To Tie Death To CTE, CTE To Football” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Fall 2019 Co-Author
- Fall 2019 Co-Author “Exercise As Punishment? Drop and Give Me 20… Hundred Thousand Dollars” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Fall 2019 Co-Author “Insurance Is Not Killing Football, Other Contact Sports – It’s Making Them Safer” Sports Medicine and the Law
- October 2019 Co-Author
- September 2019 Quoted “Standard of Care Laws May Not Dissuade Sport Concussion” Neurology Today
- Summer 2019 Co-Author “Takeaways from the Onyshko Verdict: Win for NCAA, Loss for Plaintiffs, Draw for Others in Future Head Injury Cases” Sports Medicine and the Law
- June 2019 Quoted “NCAA Picks Up Key Win in Onyshko Concussion Case; Experts Weigh In” Sports Litigation Alert
- Spring 2019 Co-Author “Pushing Players Too Far to ‘Do Something’ Will Not ‘Win the Day’ in Court – Takeaways from two UO Suits” Sports Medicine and the Law
- Winter 2019 Co-Author “Wani v. George Fox University – Handling Student-Athlete Complaints on the Field and In the Locker Room” Sports Medicine and the Law
Honors & Awards
- Selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star Business Litigation list in 2020-2027. The list is issued by Thomson Reuters and a description of the selection methodology can be found here. No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey or the highest court of any other state.
Education
Law School
- Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
Undergraduate School
- Pennsylvania State University
Insights
Shared Thinking
Talk With Dylan
Philadelphia 215-772-7647 dhenry@mmwr.com