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Tim Murray is longtime lead author of the landmark Corbin on Contracts treatise, the most influential legal treatise America has produced. It has been cited as an authority by courts across America in excess of 16,000 times, including many times by the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Murray has represented General Motors Corporation, Bayer, Avery Dennison, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, Alcoa, Nissan North America, Mazda Motors of America, TWA, Kawasaki Motors, and many others. In the litigation between Pfizer and Moderna over ownerwhip of the COVID-19 vaccine, he was Moderna's expert witness on American contract law in the London trial. The High Court of Justice expressed its "preference of Mr Murray’s evidence" over Pfizer's expert, and Moderna prevailed.
Mr. Murray helped to rewrite the suggested Pennsylvania jury instructions for contract law. In its introduction to the 2017 supplement for jury instructions, the Civil Instructions Subcommittee of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Committee for Proposed Standard Jury Instructions wrote: “The subcommittee sincerely thanks Timothy Murray, Esquire, of Murray, Hogue & Lannis in Pittsburgh, who has generously contributed countless hours of his expertise to rewriting the contracts instructions and subcommittee notes. A national expert in contract law, Mr. Murray writes the biannual supplements to the 15-volume treatise, Corbin on Contracts (Lexis-Nexis)."
Mr. Murray has conducted contract law seminars or webinars for, among others, the American Law Institute, LexisNexis, the New York State Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute. He serves on the editorial advisory board for Lexis Practice Advisor Journal.
Mr. Murray is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. He received both his B.A., summa cum laude (1981) and his J.D. (1984) from the University of Pittsburgh.