Sean Zabaneh and Pat Gavin

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Sean Zabaneh is a healthcare and life sciences partner at Duane Morris with over 15 years of trial and courtroom experience.  Representative clients include healthcare product manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, hospital associations, health systems, health insurers, physician groups, and home care agencies.  Sean’s litigation practice involves high-stakes commercial disputes, administrative agency hearings, reimbursement disputes, and antitrust matters, including in the class action context.  Sean also spends significant time on healthcare contract negotiation and developing strategies with clients to avoid litigation and resolve disputes efficiently through business solutions.  

Sean is a member of the Duane Morris COVID-19 Strategy Team, and serves as the firm’s Hiring Partner, Chair of the Recruitment and Retention Committee, and a member of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee and DM Pride, the Firm’s LGBTQ+ affinity group.  In 2005, Sean earned his law degree from Washington University School of Law, where he was a Scholar in Law and on the editorial board of the Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, and in 2001, Sean earned a Bachelor of Arts degree as a Presidential Scholar at Case Western Reserve University.


Contact Sean at:
[email protected]



Pat Gavin represents clients in complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts across the United States, including litigation arising from disputes in the healthcare supply chain.  Pat graduated from Harvard Law School in 2016, where he was a senior editor of the Harvard Law & Policy Review.


Contact Pat at: [email protected]