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Practice
Engaged primarily in professional liability, drug and medical
device litigation, and commercial and
residential real estate litigation.
Professional Background
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania in 1992; in West Virginia
in 1993;
in Ohio in 2002.
Also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme
Court, United States District Court for the Western
District of Pennsylvania, Southern District of West Virginia and the United States Court
of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Professional/Civic Activities
Member: Allegheny County
Bar Association (Civil Litigation and
Healthcare sections).
Member: Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Member: West Virginia Bar Association.
Member: Pennsylvania Defense
Institute.
Member: Defense Research
Institute.
Member: Bucknell University Alumni
Association.
Member: University of Pittsburgh
Alumni Association.
Member: ALFA International Products Liability Practice Group.
Member: ALFA International Drug & Medical Device Practice Group.
Member: ALFA International Healthcare
Practice Group.
Steering Committee.
Moderator: ALFA International Healthcare Practice Group.
Seminar: Crisis in Healthcare, New Orleans,
Louisiana,
November 12-14, 2004.
Author: ALFA International Healthcare
Practice Group
Seminar Compendium, Pennsylvania chapter, "Statute of
Limitations and Damage Caps for Liability Claims Against
Healthcare
Providers, a 50 State Survey," 2003.
Author: ALFA International Healthcare Practice Group Seminar Compendium,
Pennsylvania Chapter, "Medical Spa Law, A Fifty State Survey," 2007.
Editor: ALFA International Healthcare
Attorney Directory, 2000 Edition,
Presented at Healthcare Practice
Group Seminar, "Good Health for
Healthcare: Marching into the
New Millennium," Nashville,
Tennessee, November 1-3, 2000.
Member: Pan Icarian Brotherhood,
Chapter Icaros, Verona, Pennsylvania.
Member: Board of Directors, CONTACT
Pittsburgh (2005 - present).
Event Chair:
CONTACT Pittsburgh Annual Fundraiser Event, Casino on the Green,
November, 2007;
October, 2008.
Listed in Pennsylvania Super
Lawyers Rising Stars Edition 2006, 2007.
Education
Bucknell University (B.A., 1989).
University of Pittsburgh (J.D., 1992).
Up Close And Personal
Constantine J. Passodelis, or Dean to his friends and colleagues,
chairs the firm's professional liability practice group defending
claims against laboratories, medical device manufacturers and
distributors, dialysis providers, hospitals and physicians. Dean
also actively represents clients engaged in the business of employee
relocation, time share management, and commercial and residential real
estate management and sales. Dean provides
services for several valued clients on a regional and national level
and serves as a member of a national health care steering committee
formed by ALFA International.
Dean is a graduate of Bucknell University where he majored in philosophy, served on the crew
team, and studied in France and Switzerland. In 1992 he earned his law degree from the
University of Pittsburgh and joined Meyer Darragh, where he became an
equity partner in 2001. Dean chairs the firm's
executive committee and professional liability practice group.
He also serves on the firm's Compensation Committee. Professionally, Dean has been an active member of the Defense Research
Institute, Pennsylvania Defense Institute, and
the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Out of the office, Dean enjoys time with his family.
Married to Ann Weiskircher Passodelis, a former North Allegheny High School chemistry teacher,
Dean has two sons born in 1998 and 2001. |
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