Michael Pullano

Partner

Michael.Pullano@lewisbrisbois.com

Michael Pullano is a partner in the Philadelphia office of Lewis Brisbois and a member of the Products Liability Practice. 

With career-long litigation experience, Mr. Pullano has focused his practice on complex catastrophic injury cases in the products liability realm and in the defense of professional negligence matters. His practice is nationally based with marked experienced in state and federal courts in a myriad of jurisdictions. He has spent his entire civil litigation career representing manufacturers and/or suppliers of heavy construction equipment. Additionally his clients include a wide range of manufacturers of fuel dispensers, refuse collection vehicles and Liquified Propane Gas pumps and compressors. In his work as counsel in professional liability cases, Mr. Pullano has represented architects and engineers, attorneys, and municipal professionals, including prosecutors and police officers. His clients include public and private entities, including Fortune 500 companies, as well as individuals. He also has significant experience in the defense of employment claims and in defamation and civil rights matters.

Following law school at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Kent College of Law, he practiced as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia for many years. Mr. Pullano obtained his B.A. from Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Primary Area(s) of Practice

  • Products Liability
  • Professional Liability
  • Architects & Engineers
  • Complex Business & Commercial Litigation
  • Labor & Employment
  • COVID-19: Labor & Employment
  • COVID-19: Commercial & Contractual Litigation Disputes

Admissions

New Jersey

Pennsylvania

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Presentations

Presenter on Email and Social Media Ethics Issues, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, August 16-17, 2018.

Education

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago Kent College of Law

Juris Doctor, 1996

Catholic University

Bachelor of Arts, 1991

Representative Matters

  • Successfully represented the county prosecutors in the Eastern District of PA and Third Circuit.
  • Prevailed in the defense of a law firm defendant and individual attorneys in a Dragonetti action in Philadelphia County which was affirmed on appeal.
  • Prevailed on 120(b)(6) motion in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in an alleged due process violations case against a local county and its D.A. which resulted in dismissal of plaintiff's civil rights claims.