A roundup of recent legal industry news from the Philadelphia area:
Three-term U.S. Congressman Conor Lamb will join Philadelphia plaintiffs personal injury law firm Kline & Specter when his term expires in January.
Lamb, 38, announced his plans via a Twitter thread, calling the firm “national leaders in the pursuit of civil justice.”
With over 50 lawyers, Kline & Specter is the city’s largest plaintiffs personal injury firm and perhaps its most prominent. Led by founders Tom Kline and Shanin Specter, it routinely has secured some of the largest verdicts and settlements in Pennsylvania, including the $8 billion verdict against Johnson & Johnson in 2019 involving the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal. It has also secured multimillion-dollar awards for the Amtrak 188 derailment and the Salvation Army building collapse, as well as cases against SEPTA, Ford Motor Co. and Johnson & Johnson. The firm also represented a victim in the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse case and helped enact the Timothy J. Piazza Act aimed at deterring hazing on college campuses and elsewhere.
In a statement attributed to both Kline and Specter, the two firm founders said they were “excited to have Conor among our talented lawyers. Conor has been an outstanding public servant and is an experienced and accomplished trial lawyer.”
Kline & Specter said Lamb will work out of both the firm’s Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices.
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