Our Practice

Practice Areas

  • Personal Injury
  • Wrongful Death
  • Suits Against State Sponsors of Terrorism 

Our Approach

Joseph Peter Drennan and P. York McLane, have a focused practice in bringing the law to your corner.  We are dedicated to understanding what results you want to help you understand what actions we can take on your behalf.  We will work with you every step of the way to make sure that you understand the choices you are making and feel empowered to make them.

A Team in Your Corner

Joseph Peter Drennan and P. York McLane are a highly dedicated legal team that have successfully sued and collected damages from state sponsors of terrorism.  

Our Success Fighting Terrorism

There are only a handful of attorneys in the nation that have been successful in suing state sponsors of terrorism.  Over the past decade Joseph Peter Drennan's legal team participated with other attorneys in successfully suing and collecting on those judgments against the Islamic Republic of Iran for the 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombing in Lebanon.  (See Peterson v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 627 F. 3d 1117, Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 2010,  Spencer v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 71 F. Supp. 3d 23, District of Columbia, 2014, Taylor v. Islamic Republic of Iran, 811 F. Supp. 2d 1, Dist. of Columbia, 2008, Bank Markazi v. Peterson, 135 S. Ct. 1310 (2016).