WHARTON LEVIN EHRMANTRAUT & KLEIN, P.A. is pleased to announce that
James Drnec has joined the firm effective April 1, 2018 as an attorney in its Medical Negligence Defense Department. Jim Drnec has significant litigation experience defending a broad spectrum of healthcare providers, including nurses, physicians, hospitals, and practice groups in medical negligence actions. He serves as principal trial counsel in such matters and has successfully handled appellate issues addressed to the Delaware Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He also provides guidance and representation for individual healthcare providers appearing before licensing boards, and to hospitals in credentialing matters. Jim is primary trial counsel for Bayhealth Medical Center, Inc.
He joins WLEK, founded in 1984 as a “boutique” litigation firm. Since that time, the Firm has grown in numbers and scope to become one of the Mid-Atlantic’s most highly regarded law firms, with offices in Maryland, Virginia and Delaware. Fueling that growth has been the Firm’s long-standing reputation for courtroom excellence and attentive, cost-effective representation of its clients. The Firm includes several attorneys voted by plaintiff and defense lawyers as being “Super Lawyers,” two past Presidents of the Civil Defense Bar, a long-time member of the high court’s prestigious Rules Committee, and a great percentage of members awarded the highest possible peer-review rating by Martindale Hubbell.
Mr. Drnec joins the Wilmington office which, collectively, has almost 60 years of complex civil litigation experience. He, along with the rest of the Wilmington office, will continue to focus their efforts on representing hospitals, individual physicians and other health care providers throughout Delaware in all manner of professional liability cases.
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