William (Bill) L. Banton Jr. is a trial attorney who currently works for Marshall Dennehey. He has nearly 30 years’ experience working in medical malpractice, long-term care litigation, areas of mental health (including foster care abuse and sexual abuse), general liability, and civil rights defense.
Mr. Banton is a graduate of Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Following graduation, he attended the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, LA, where he obtained his Juris Doctor. He returned to the Philadelphia area and accepted a clerkship with the Honorable Theodore A. McKee, formerly of the Court of Common Pleas and currently of the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
Upon completion of a challenging one-year clerkship, Mr. Banton served as an assistant city solicitor and eventually obtained the status of assistant chief city solicitor for the Philadelphia Law Department. In this role, he tried numerous cases involving alleged civil rights violations by the Philadelphia Police Department and corrections officers for the Philadelphia prisons.
He subsequently entered private practice and refined his skills in a wide variety of litigation matters before joining Marshall Dennehey.