Tim Rayne -A Different Kind of Personal Injury Lawyer

As the leader of MacElree Harvey's personal injury practice, local lawyer Tim Rayne has been helping Chester County accident victims receive fair treatment from insurance companies for over 25 years. It is why he became lawyer and what drives him every single day to tirelessly strive to get justice for his clients.

Since graduating law school, Tim has always been a different kind of personal injury lawyer from those portrayed as "ambulance chasers" or on TV promising "big cash payouts".

Said Tim, "I think a Personal Injury case is about accountability and fairness. In a typical case, the Defendant has broken a safety rule and has caused unnecessary injury and should be held accountable to make the community safer. At the same time, the victim has suffered injuries and has expenses that deserve to be fairly compensated. My mission is to win that fair compensation."

Tim is one of Chester County's own. His local roots run deep. He was born and raised and has lived nearly his entire life in Kennett Square. Tim's parents, Malcom Rayne and Susan Woodward were both local schoolteachers (in fact, Tim's father was his 5th grade teacher). Inspired by two uncles who were local lawyers, George Brutcher/Kennett Square and Tim Barnard/Media, Tim wanted to be a trial lawyer from a very young age. He was also always entrepreneurial. He started a car wash business as a young teenager, a firewood cutting business in high school and eventually a house painting business in college working his way through the University of Delaware operating the business between classes. Working full time, he went to law school at night at Widener University, where he met his now wife of nearly 30 years, Amee. In his last year of law school, Tim got a clerking position with local legal legend, William Gallagher who headed up the full-service Chester County firm, MacElree Harvey and the rest is history. He has been at MacElree Harvey for his entire 25-plus-year legal career, ascending from Clerk to Associate to Partner and member of the firm's Executive Team.

And it is quite a law firm to be proud of-top resources, top lawyers and staff and more. MacElree Harvey has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of the "Best Law Firms in America" and by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the "Best Places to Work in PA." MacElree Harvey has offices located in West Chester, Kennett Square, Philadelphia, Centreville and Hockessin, Delaware.

Today, Tim handles a wide variety of personal injury matters: car, truck, motorcycle, and pedestrian accidents, slip and falls, dangerous product cases, dog bites and medical malpractice. "I love the fact that although I focus my practice in one area of the law, every case is different. I am a storyteller. I dig deep to get to know my client and try to truly understand how and why the accident happened so that I can tell a compelling story and win a fair recovery for my client. My goal is also to teach the Defendant a lesson and make the world a safer place."

Tim has had some crazy cases in his career: a client who was seriously injured in an operating room fire, a car accident caused by horses that escaped from a local farm and crashed through a car window, and even a man shot in a hunting accident.

In addition to representing clients, Tim has made it one of his missions to educate the public on how they can protect themselves and their families with proper insurance choices. Tim's book, Protecting Your Family from Accidents, his hundreds of YouTube videos, blogs on his website, www.timraynelaw.com, articles in the Daily Local -are all aimed to educate people on important legal topics and keep them safe.

"One of the most satisfying things to me is when something I've talked about in my articles or videos helps someone. For example, a close friend of mine was seriously injured in a car accident, and I was able to get him a fair recovery solely because he had read my articles and seen my videos about the importance of purchasing Underinsurance coverage."

Tim's offices are in Kennett Square and West Chester. In his free time, Tim loves traveling with his wife and his two children, Sierra and Mac and enjoys golf, paddle tennis and, yes, surfing. Ask him about it.