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Overview

Your product = Your reputation. Your company. Your future. Magda defends them all. She practices from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as a member of our virtual office, The Link.

Magda leads Husch Blackwell’s Pennsylvania general defense team. She serves as trusted counsel to national and multinational companies facing complex litigation and regulatory risk. Her team tackles high-exposure transportation, product liability, mass tort, commercial, and employment disputes, with a particular emphasis on defending businesses in Pennsylvania’s challenging litigation environment. Clients rely on Magda for strategic guidance at every stage of a dispute, from early case assessment and jurisdictional challenges through discovery, motion practice, trial preparation, and resolution. She is particularly skilled at developing fact-intensive defenses in matters involving transportation services, pharmaceuticals, consumer products, chemical products, and other heavily regulated industries.

With a niche expertise counseling on compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Magda routinely defends clients across all industries against claims asserting website accessibility violations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Magda also advises cosmetic industry clients on compliance with the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA), and a wide range of issues related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Known for her practical, business-focused approach, Magda has helped lead litigation strategy in state and federal courts across Pennsylvania, routinely working alongside in-house legal departments, national coordinating counsel, expert witnesses, and corporate stakeholders to manage complex discovery, develop defensible litigation positions, and reduce client exposure.  

In addition to her client work, Magda is a recognized resource within the firm’s Mass Tort & Product Liability group, where she leads the Product Perspective blog, mentors attorneys across the practice, and presents on Pennsylvania litigation trends, jurisdictional challenges, venue strategy, and emerging issues affecting corporate defendants.

Industries

Services

Recognition

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America
    • Commercial Litigation, 2021-2025
    • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2023-2025
  • JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards, Top Author, Product Liability, 2023 and 2024
  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
    • Rising Star, Litigation, 2020-2024

Education

  • J.D., Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law
    • Valedictorian
    • Penn State Dickinson Law Review, Executive Comments Editor
    • Woolsack Honor Society
    • CALI Awards for Excellence in majority of classes
  • B.A., Juniata College
    • Valedictorian
    • Economics

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Magda is associated with the Washington, DC office for telephone and mail purposes only. She is not admitted to practice in District of Columbia.

Professional Memberships and Certifications

  • Federal Bar Association, Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter, Co-Chair of Membership Committee
  • Defense Research Institute (DRI)
  • Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association
  • Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform

Languages

  • French, conversational
  • German, familiar
  • Greek, conversational
  • Latin, familiar
  • Polish, native
  • Spanish, advanced


*Magda works remotely and is licensed in Pennsylvania, practicing in Harrisburg, PA. Contact Magda via email or phone for in-person/virtual meetings. Use the Washington, DC office address for mail/deliveries only.

Experience
  • Manages talc litigation as part of the national coordinating counsel team for a product manufacturer.
  • Manages Pennsylvania-based herbicide litigation for a national manufacturer.
  • Defends suppliers of benzene-containing products in litigation pending in Pennsylvania.
  • Successfully defends manufacturers of engines and motors in fire, explosion and personal injury litigation.
  • Represented Pennsylvania healthcare and health insurance system in provider dispute.
  • Defended a medical device manufacturer in class-action litigation before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and multi-district litigation pending in the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
  • Obtained dismissal of all claims against a benzene supplier for lack of personal jurisdiction in Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas.
  • Obtained dismissal of all claims against a medical device manufacturer for lack of personal jurisdiction in numerous cases in federal and state court.
  • Obtained dismissal of petition to intervene on behalf of university regarding environmental contamination dispute.
  • Represented defendant in multimillion-dollar breach of contract litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty.
  • Represented small business owners in disputes involving enforcement of operating agreements, misappropriation of intellectual property, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract.
  • Assisted business owners in drafting of operating and shareholder agreements, employment agreements, non-competition agreements and leases.
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Outside the Office

Magda and her husband – an emergency room physician and a healthcare hero – stay busy with their four children. The family enjoys traveling, especially to their respective home countries, Poland and Greece.

Community Leadership

Magda grew up in Poland and came to the United States to pursue her education as a high school exchange student. When she became a U.S. citizen in 2015, Magda was a guest speaker at a naturalization ceremony at the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania. Organized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the event hosted federal judges, U.S. veterans, newly sworn-in U.S. citizens and their families.

Magda is also a co-chair of the Membership Committee of the Federal Bar Association Middle District of Pennsylvania Chapter, a president of the Parent Teacher Organization at her local school district, and a Board Member of the East Pennsboro Education Foundation.