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Jordan Coyne — Washington, D.C. Attorneys

Our District of Columbia attorneys practice in the following courts:

  • United States District Court for the District of Columbia
  • Superior Court of the District of Columbia
  • United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
  • District of Columbia Court of Appeals

We welcome you to learn more about our practice areas or to browse our Washington, D.C. legal news and resources.

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Practice Areas

Personal Injury
Professional Liability
Employment Law
Workers' Compensation
Commercial Litigation / Business Torts
Consumer Protection Litigation
Insurance Coverage
Products Liability

Attorneys

D. Stephenson Schwinn
David B. Stratton
John H. Carstens
Deborah Murrell Whelihan
Padraic K. Keane
Carol Thomas Stone
John Tremain May
Taylor Reid Miles
David Trinnes
Maeghan M. Buckley

Recent Blog Posts

D.C. Court of Appeals clarifies the method to assign permanent partial disability awards

Posted: May 4, 2017

COURT OF APPEALS CLARIFIES THE METHOD TO ASSIGN PERMANENT PARTIAL DISABILITY AWARDS UNDER THE D C WORKERS’ COMPENSATION ACT Like many other workers’ compensation statutes, the D.C. Workers’ Compensation Act [Act] provides a schedule setting forth the amount of benefits that may be awarded for the permanent disability of certain body members. D.C. Code […]

Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Padraic Keane has been advanced to Partner

Posted: February 7, 2017

Jordan Coyne LLP is pleased to announce that Padraic Keane has been advanced to Partner. A member of the Maryland bar since 2002, Padraic was admitted to practice in the District of Columbia in 2006, and Virginia in 2015. He attended the University of Colorado (B.A. 1999), and received his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from […]

In Memoriam – James F. Jordan

Posted: November 11, 2016

James F. Jordan of Chevy Chase, Maryland, passed away peacefully on November 10, 2016. Jim was born on February 9, 1933 in Washington, D.C. He was preceded in death by his parents, John A. Jordan, Sr. and Margaret Ellen Leahan Jordan, his sisters, Mary Margaret Jordan McKeever, Rita Bridgett Jordan Marshall, Joanne Ellen Jordan Barr, […]

Virginia Workers’ Compensation: Injury After Clocking Out

Posted: April 15, 2016

In Jones v. The Woodlands, Inc., Jurisdiction Claim No. VA00001035833 (March 29, 2016), the Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission ruled that an employee injured on the employer’s premises but after he had clocked out was not injured in the course of his employment. The Commission reversed the Deputy Commissioner’s ruling that the injury was compensable. The […]

Eastern District of Virginia rules on school restroom policy regarding transgender students

Posted: October 9, 2015

In G.G. v. Gloucester County School Board, Civil No. 4:15cv54., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia considered whether a school board resolution requiring that the use of male or female restrooms and locker rooms be restricted to those of the corresponding biological gender constituted impermissible sex discrimination. The Court dismissed a […]

Avoiding the Late Payment Penalty

Posted: September 8, 2015

Compensation awarded in an Order must be “paid within 10 days after it becomes due” or a statutorily mandated twenty-percent penalty shall be imposed. D.C. Code § 32-1515. In Daly v. D.C. Dep't of Empl. Servs., 2015 D.C. App. LEXIS 359, 12-13 (D.C. Aug. 6, 2015), the Court held that payment becomes “due” within ten […]

D.C. Workers Compensation Act Amended to Provide for Reversion of Third Party Claims

Posted: September 2, 2015

The District of Columbia Workers Compensation Act provides for an automatic assignment of the right to sue a third party to the employer if the person entitled to compensation does not file suit within six months after being awarded compensation in an order. D.C. Code § 32-1535(b). This provision had been applied to bar a worker from […]

Indemnification in Maryland

Posted: August 4, 2015

Frequently, when a party asserts a cross- or third-party claim, at least one count will assert that the cross- or third-party plaintiff is entitled to indemnification. It is almost boilerplate. However, Maryland law is fairly restrictive on the concept of indemnification, and frequently claims for indemnification are vulnerable to dispositive motions. Maryland recognizes that a […]

District of Columbia: Duties of Local Counsel

Posted: August 2, 2015

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals has reminded the bar again that when an attorney undertakes to act on behalf of another person, no matter what the circumstances, he invokes upon himself the entire structure of the Code of Professional Responsibility. In re Thomas Fortune Fay, No. 14-BG-7 (D.C. March 19, 2015). The Code […]

Virginia Legal Malpractice: The burden of proving non-collectibility is on negligent attorney

Posted: August 1, 2015

In Shevlin Smith v. McLaughlin, the Virginia Supreme Court considered the issues of: (1) whether an attorney breaches the duty to a client by failing to correctly anticipate a judicial ruling on an unsettled legal issue; (2) whether collectibility is relevant to a legal malpractice claim when the alleged injury is the loss of an […]

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Representative Clients

AIG
Ahold USA
Broadspire
Brown & Brown
Chubb
Employers Mutual Casualty Company
Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc.
Giant Food Stores LLC
Giant of Maryland LLC
Homesite Insurance Co.
Hudson Insurance Co.
K&K Insurance
Liberty Mutual
Liberty International Underwriters
Lloyds of London
MAPFRE Insurance
Macy's
Markel
MiddleOak
Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company
Philadelphia Insurance Companies
Swiss Re
The Harleysville Insurance Cos.
The Travelers Insurance Cos.
Tokio Marine Group
Wegmans Food Markets, Inc.
Western Heritage Insurance Co.
Zurich North America

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