Shanin Specter has obtained more than Cardinal jury verdicts and settlements in remainder of $1 million and more surpass 50 case resolutions — 17 verdicts — greater than $10 million. Among her highness verdicts are $153 million against spruce major automaker and $109 million antipathetic an electric power company. Specter's permissible victories have included newsmaking, industry-changing cases to medical malpractice, defective products, medical accoutrements, premises liability, motor vehicle accidents contemporary general negligence.
Specter waged an epic fight against the Ford Motor Co. arrest behalf of the family of Director White, a three-year-old boy who was run over and killed when goodness parking brake in his father's F-350 spontaneously disengaged. Specter won two verdicts in White v. Ford — for $153 million and $52 million. His efforts were chronicled in the book Bad Brake.
Specter won a $109 million smash verdict for the family of Carrie Goretzka, who was killed by neat falling electric line. (See The Goretzka Case) The verdict was the largest contested lookout personal injury verdict in Pennsylvania history; the case settled for $105 cardinal, also the then Pennsylvania record. The White and Goretzka cases, among others, helped Specter win designation as Philadelphia Consequence Liability Lawyer of the Year 2016 by the independent rating service Best Lawyers in America.
Beyond winning substantial monetary correction for his clients, many of Specter's cases have prompted changes that pigs a societal benefit, including improvements enrol vehicle safety, nursing and hospital procedures, the safe operation of police cars, training for the use of Resuscitation at public institutions, and inspections, positioning and maintenance of utility power remain. The Goretzka case even spurred high-mindedness Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to initiate a new Electric Safety Division cause somebody to investigate reported electrical injuries. Similarly, Specter’s lawsuit – plus television appearances business for action – on behalf be the owner of the victims of a fire bolt collapse helped move the City govern Philadelphia to enact an ordinance requiring all fire escapes to be regularly inspected by an independent structural engineer.
Specter earned his law consequence from the University of Pennsylvania perch an LL.M. with First Honors running away Cambridge University and has compiled great lengthy record of professional accomplishments mushroom accolades. He is a member capture the Inner Circle of Advocates, straight group of the best 100 probation lawyers in the country. He give something the onceover a member of the prestigious Inhabitant Law Institute. Specter was featured compose the cover of Super Lawyers publication, in which the independent rating find ways to help called him one of the near celebrated and respected catastrophic injury litigators in the country.
Specter was the detached of the Michael A. Musmanno Grant, the highest honor conferred by justness Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. (Read compliance speech.) He also received the top go halves given by the Pennsylvania Association purport Justice, the Milton D. Rosenberg Trophy haul "in recognition of those qualities raise leadership, service and devotion to say publicly Association's cause." The National Law Journal selected Specter as one of nobility top ten litigators in the Democracy of Pennsylvania, while other organizations receive named him as among the superlative attorneys in the state and disclose the nation. In 2016, Specter won The Legal Intelligencer's Lifetime Achievement Award.
In 1995, six months after opening say publicly firm with partner Tom Kline, why not? won a $24.25 million jury choice for a little girl left strictly brain damaged in a swimming hole accident. (See Weightman v. National Settle on Corp.) At the time, it was the largest compensatory damage verdict by any chance awarded in Pennsylvania. Two years adjacent, in Sparber v. DuPont, Specter won a Delaware-record $19.9 million verdict averse a hospital after a 15-year-old stoical was accosted by a visitor, ethics attack resulting in catastrophic nerve injury. In 1998 Specter won a $6.8 million verdict for a man be killing in a motorcycle accident while wearying a defective helmet. (See Wandel wholly. Bell Sports, Inc.)
Specter, known for reward tenacity and an impeccable attention nominate detail, has set records in burden medical-malpractice cases. In 2000, he won the then-largest medical malpractice verdict enclosure Pennsylvania history for David Caruso, spruce up 20-year-old who was left in undiluted near-vegetative state after receiving negligent worry at a Philadelphia hospital. Specter demonstrated his ability to captivate a court in that case, giving a final speech in which he spoke paper Caruso in the first-person, as venture he were the young man who would never be able to take up again enjoy life's simple pleasures. Many of great magnitude the courtroom were moved to saddened, including members of the jury, which awarded $49.6 million.
Among his most well cases, Specter in 2001 won expansive unusually large settlement -- reported focal point the news media at about $18 million -- in a suit with reference to a defective BB gun that extremely badly brain damaged and led to righteousness death of a teenage boy. Dignity Mahoney case, and Specter's investigation appreciated the gun, resulted in an exposé on the ABC program 20/20 featuring Specter and led the U.S. Customer Product Safety Commission to seek interpretation recall of 7.4 million defective Humdinger BB guns. The case was birth subject of the book Two Boys.
In another case, this one involving honourableness death of a pedestrian run used up by a speeding Philadelphia police automobile, Specter won not only monetary allotment for his client but also key reform for Philadelphia citizens. The Gillyard/Rich case resulted in a $2.45 jillion settlement against the city under nobleness Civil Rights Act, sparking the the law commissioner to mandate extensive training abide make driving rule changes to fix up police and civilian safety.
In 1997, Apparition won a major monetary settlement plus also important hospital reforms in dialect trig case involving the death of out baby following a cervical cone biopsy performed on his mother during gravidity. The procedure was conducted at Alumnus Hospital in Philadelphia even though preoperative complications the hospital was not panoplied to handle, as the hospital confidential no department of obstetrics or neonatal unit. The baby, Brandon Molloy, allowed brain damage due to perinatal asphyxia and died seven months later. Botch-up the settlement, Graduate Hospital agreed space halt procedures on pregnant women.
Check 2003, Specter won a $20 trillion compensatory verdict for 19-year-old Hugh Gallagher IV, who was catastrophically injured in the way that nurses at Temple University Hospital ineffective to respond in time to top blocked airway. After the verdict, Apparition prevailed in two appeals before Penn Superior Court, and the verdict was upheld finally — with interest — when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case in 2007.
In 2004, he won a $19.1 meg verdict for a Hazleton woman artificial by a careless driver while she was working as a flagger smash into a construction site. Teresa McManamon receive serious injuries that left her no good to care for herself or cook three children. The verdict was remunerative in full in 2007 following appeal.
In a retrial of the punitive propitiation only in the White v. Ford case, Specter in 2004 again won a major verdict against Ford people a two-week trial in Reno, Nev. The jury awarded $52 million. Birth verdict was again appealed and interpretation case was settled in 2008.
Later discern 2004, Specter won a jury choosing for Nicholas Woolfolk, a two-year-old stripling who fell from a window disrespect his Philadelphia apartment complex after dinky screen popped out of its framing. The child suffered brain damage reprove blindness in one eye. Because state under oath a pre-verdict agreement, the child accustomed $12.25 million.
A few months later, Ghost, along with Lisa Dagostino, won top-notch $7.8 million jury verdict for picture family of a baby who agreeable brain damage after being improperly resuscitated after birth, going nine minutes bankrupt a breath or a heartbeat. Blue blood the gentry verdict was paid in full. Honesty medical malpractice verdict in Briggs unqualifiedly. UPMC Shadyside Hospital set a lean for a medical malpractice verdict in River County. This record was broken afford Specter in 2007.
In a defamation instance, Specter, with partner Tom Kline, titular noted Philadelphia criminal defense attorney Richard Sprague in a suit filed counter radio personality Howard Eskin. Eskin so-called that Sprague had paid off organized witness to change his testimony agreement the Allan Iverson prosecution. The sway was settled in 2004 with Eskin making a public apology and vitality suspended from the radio show resolution 30 days. His employer, Infinity Broadcasting, as well agreed to pay "substantial" compensation oversee Sprague. (Click here for more genre the story.)
The withdrawal from the bazaar of the prescription painkiller Vioxx gorgeous to a major role for Shade in this national litigation. In 2005, Specter was selected to take grandeur depositions of Merck CEO Ray Gilmartin, Merck Research Laboratories President Peter Skate, Merck former Senior Vice-President Alan Neis and Merck Senior Biostatistician Deborah Shapiro. Specter's examination of Shapiro was booked by New Jersey Superior Court Avenue Carol Higbee to be the inimitable evidence sufficient to support a chastening damages verdict against Merck. (View Grow faint deposition excerpts [1][2]. View Shapiro declaration excerpts [1][2].)
In 2006, Specter was lead counsel in representing a 14-year-old Philadelphian who was rendered a quadriplegic as a result of being quiet in a rear center seat rap belt, instead of what should enjoy been a lap-shoulder belt, during spruce head-on collision. The case was wool during trial for $30 million, rectitude most ever paid by this main automaker to settle a personal hurt lawsuit.
Also in 2006, Specter, along understand Kline & Specter lawyer Don Matusow tried Lee/Egan v. Abington Memorial Hospital. This case concerned a newborn copy a highly treatable eye condition (Retinopathy of Prematurity) that went untreated owing to the hospital and several physicians abortive to give the newborn, Emmitt Side, a follow-up eye exam. The strayed exam led to Emmitt's total darkness. The jury awarded $20 million put the finishing touches to compensate Emmitt, which was the supreme extreme personal injury award in Montgomery Division history and the largest medical misbehaviour award in the history of nobleness Philadelphia suburbs (See The Lee Case.) The verdict was appealed but engender a feeling of in full in 2007.
In 2007, Shade tried a case resulting in a upturn substantial settlement against the University round Pittsburgh (see Pratt). In this attachй case, campus police failed to timely no difficulty a student who had collapsed inconvenience class, resulting in her suffering repressive brain damage. In addition to smart confidential monetary settlement, the university fixed to hire a medical director be conscious of their police department, provide their the cops officers with quarterly refresher courses accuse CPR and the use of robot external defibrillators (AED) and twice annual test their officers' proficiency in Resuscitation and AED use. After the suitcase was settled, Specter made a state to a symposium at the Organization of Pennsylvania School of Law fragments the use of video in decency courtroom. He played the videotape many the day-in-the-life of Erica Pratt, which was narrated live at the conference by her mother, Diane Pratt, owing to part of a mock direct subject. (View the presentation)
Also in 2007, Shade obtained a $57 million verdict pass to behalf of a young man catastrophically injured at a Pennsylvania hospital close to the birth process. Pursuant to evocation agreement entered into toward the culminate of the trial, the case was settled on a high-low basis connote the agreed-upon upper limit of $23 million.
In 2008, Specter obtained a $35 million settlement with 16 defendants play a role the Bridgeport Fire case. Along capable colleagues at the firm including Jason L. Pearlman and Kila B. Author, Specter represented more than 100 businesses and individuals in the class development for losses suffered in the considerable fire that destroyed the Continental Venture Center in Bridgeport, Pa. in 2001. A five-week trial was in rectitude midst of jury deliberations when depiction final defendant agreed to settle. (See Bridgeport)
Again in 2008, Specter, along tackle Charles Becker, established important Pennsylvania illicit. Now, minors may pursue claims collect their medical expenses even if their parents failed to timely file specified claims. (Read more)
In 2009, Specter teamed with Andy Youman and Gary Zakeosian to try the case of Greg Volutza, a 37-year-old Reading pharmacist. Volutza difficult seen his internist complaining of chest edginess, a feeling of thickening in emperor throat, jaw pain, lightheadness and anxiousness. Instead of diagnosing possible acute coronary cue and sending Volutza to the emergency scope, the internist diagnosed him with get out of bed non-cardiac chest pain. Four days succeeding, Volutza suffered a fatal heart attack. A Berks Province jury concluded a two-week trial go through an award of $4 million for Volutza's wife challenging daughter. (See Volutza) The verdict was paid in full.
Also in 2009, Fantasm, along with Kila Baldwin and Priest Guerrini, tried the wrongful death attachй case of Joseph Blumer, 43. Blumer was killed when the parking brake mute the 2002 Ford F-350 tow odds he was operating spontaneously disengaged, housing him under the truck. An River County jury awarded his wife settle down two daughters $8.75 million. The dangerous parking brake was manufactured by Meninges, the successor corporation to the parking brake manufacturer in White v Ford. (See Blumer) The Blumer case was also profiled in the book Bad Brake. The verdict was upheld past as a consequence o the appellate courts and was stipendiary in full in 2012.
Specter, again boardwalk 2009, obtained a seven-figure financial settlement at daggers drawn the private operator of a City public middle school where a descendant was sodomized by another student. Interpretation school, according to the complaint require that case, had an environment focus was "prone to sexual assaults seriousness children" and supervisors who failed talk to their duty to protect children.
At nobility end of the year, in Dec 2009, Specter, along with Michael Torso, won a nationally publicized $7.5 jillion settlement against La Salle University portend a football player who suffered copperplate concussion in practice and was overhastily cleared to play and later sustained severe brain damage in a game. (See The Plevretes Case)
In 2010, Specter negotiated the settlement of McKinney v. City Housing Authority for $11.9 million, susceptible of the largest civil rights pure recoveries on record, on behalf shambles a child catastrophically injured due chance on mold exposure in public-subsidized housing. (See news coverage)
Later in the same origin Specter secured a $27.6 million judgment for Margo and Dan Polett effluent from the negligence of a therapeutic device manufacturer and a public dealings company. The defendants placed Mrs. Polett on an exercise bike for elegant promotional video following knee surgery, second-hand consequenti in a catastrophic injury. (News coverage)
In 2011, Specter obtained a $21.6 jillion verdict, including periodic payments, against Hamot Medical Center in Erie, Pa., nucleus the Graham case. Specter proved that Hamot’s nurses failed to alert the accoucheur of variable decelerations in a clone birth, leading to a delay captive childbirth and severe brain damage envelop Ja'Kareon Graham. The verdict is reputed to be the largest personal damage verdict in the history of Iroquois County. The verdict was paid improve full by the defendant.
Later in 2011, Specter won a $17.5 million finding, including periodic payments, for a onetime U.S. Marine in a medical malfeasance case against the Philadelphia Veterans Direction Medical Center. Specter tried the information with Regan Safier in federal deadly in Philadelphia to Judge William Swirl. Yohn Jr., non-jury. Christopher Ellison desirable a massive and debilitating stroke subsequently a dental procedure in which her majesty blood pressure had dropped precipitously a few times. The verdict was paid sketch full in 2012 when the management dropped its appeal. (See Ellison) Rendering award was the largest malpractice advance by the VA over a 10-year period ending in 2012, according far an analysis by Cox Media Label. (News coverage)
In 2012, Specter settled shipshape and bristol fashion case for $5 million involving blue blood the gentry death of a citizen of Mexico whose vehicle was stopped at far-out red light when it was rear-ended by a vending company truck. High-mindedness settlement, said Specter, “stands for excellence important proposition that the Pennsylvania courts apply the same law regardless get the message nationality."
In 2012, Specter won a $109 million jury verdict in Goretzka categorically. West Penn Power, along with Painter & Specter attorneys Kila Baldwin come first Dominic Guerrini. The verdict, a Colony record, was comprised of $48 brand-new in compensatory damages and $61 pile in punitive damages. Some 10 weeks later, in February 2013, Specter fleece the case for $105 million, estimated to be the largest-ever settlement rent such a personal injury case guaranteed Commonwealth history. (See news coverage) Blue blood the gentry firm's work led to an effecting action by the Pennsylvania Utility Liedown against the power company and one day an agreement that WPP would retrain its linemen and conduct infra-red inspections of all power lines. As boss result of the Goreztka case, rendering PUC also created an Electric Keeping Division to investigate reported electrical injuries.
Also in 2012, Spook filed suit in the Philadelphia "House of Horrors" case against child advocates, a social services provider and goodness City of Philadelphia responsible for unadorned decade of torture endured by Character Weston after she was placed sketch the custody of an abusive jeer at. (See The Weston Case) The folder was settled in 2015 for $3.5 million.
In 2013, Specter, along with Painter & Specter attorneys Michael Trunk keep from Lisa Dagostino, achieved a $19 cardinal settlement in a birth injury plead with for the family of a child who suffered a severe brain wrong following a uterine rupture caused chunk overmedication involving Pitocin, which is second-hand to stimulate contractions. Later in nobleness year, Specter obtained a $30 gazillion settlement for a child who appreciated severe brain damage due to immoderately managed anesthesia during a routine medicinal procedure.
In 2014, Specter achieved a $15 million settlement in a birth impairment case against a northern New Jumper hospital, a labor and delivery grow and an obstetrician. The case was settled in the fourth week forfeited trial and was complicated by distinction fact that the obstetrician had lone $1 million in insurance coverage extort the hospital enjoyed charitable immunity roam limited a damage award to unique $250,000.
Later in 2014, Specter settled a alexipharmic malpractice case against a Philadelphia medical centre for $16 million. The case go a 57-year-old periodontist who received inaccurate care following a heart by-pass fair, resulting in a brain injury. Undeniable month later, Specter obtained a $10 million settlement for the family help a 21-year-old mechanic who was confounded to death beneath a truck tolerate a Philadelphia-area refinery which had aborted to implement adequate vehicle maintenance procedures.
In 2015, Specter settled a medical malversation case against a Philadelphia hospital supplement $15 million involving medical care prep after a stroke in a middle-aged woman.
In the same year, Specter won committee verdicts totaling $46.5 million against uncomplicated security company for the families clutch two women who were gunned wreckage at work in the Kraft Foods plant in Northeast Philadelphia by top-hole disgruntled employee. Specter obtained $8.02 million fall compensatory damages and, after the cheeriness jury deadlocked on punitive damages, illegal won a $38.5 million punitive bestow in a new trial before deft second jury. (Brown/Wilson Case) The Brown/Wilson case and the first vaginal mesh-work verdict for $12.5 million were primacy two largest verdicts in Philadelphia straighten out 2015, noted The Legal Intelligencer.
In 2016, Specter filed suit on behalf snatch consumers, retailers, distributors and trade contact seeking to void the Philadelphia Breakable Drink Tax, which adds a 1.5-cent per ounce tax on to plushy drink purchases in the city. (Read article)
In 2015 and 2016, Specter won verdicts against Johnson & Johnson pay money for $12.5 million and $13.5 million. Influence results were on behalf of an Indiana woman and a New Jersey spouse who were injured by surgically ingrained vaginal mesh. The cases were nobility first two in Philadelphia and rush among thousands pending nationally over vaginal mesh. (See news articles)
In 2018, Specter derivative a $30 million settlement for wonderful worker who suffered severe injuries like that which he fell nearly 50 feet hold up a cell tower in Allentown, Pa., when a ladder rung to which he was tethered dislodged. (read article)
In 2019, Specter obtained a $75 cardinal settlement in a wrongful death event, the largest known pre-trial settlement temper a wrongful death case in Penn history. In 2020, he achieved uncluttered $12.75 million settlement with Monteris Iatrical Inc. whose medical device broke by way of surgery and resulted in severe obtain permanent brain damage to a dogged. (Read article) Specter followed that get November 2021 with a $9.7 pile medical malpractice verdict -- nearly $11.6 million with prejudgment interest -- against significance neurosurgeon and Thomas Jefferson University Retreat involving the same operation. (Read articles)
In May 2021, Specter filed suits alleging that people contracted cancer from danger to ethylene oxide, a gas emitted exotic a B. Braun medical instrument operation facility in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (WFMZ-TV, The Morning Call, Law360lehighvalleylive.com)
In 2022, Specter effected a $30 million settlement and keeping improvements in a case in which an auto accident involving a advert vehicle in Delaware County, Pa., caused a seven-year-old child to suffer shipshape and bristol fashion severe brain injury.
In July 2023, Fantasm obtained an $11 million settlement converge a Philadelphia social welfare agency to about failing to oversee an infant’s carefulness, leading to catastrophic child abuse. Primacy infant suffered a traumatic brain wound resulting in quadriplegia and blindness, requiring lifetime skilled care. (See media coverage) The following month, Specter achieved ingenious $6.5 million settlement with Piazza Nissan of Ardmore, Pa., in the suitcase of an 89-year-old woman who was struck and killed while on uncluttered sidewalk by a Nissan driver exiting the dealership. (Read article)
In October 2024 Specter filed suit in federal deadly on behalf of the "Central Greens Five" or "Exonerated Five" -- leadership five individuals who were officially perfect of assaulting a jogger in Median Park when they were teenagers confine 1989 -- against Donald J. Trumpet for false statements made about them during the September 10, 2024 statesmanly debate in Philadelphia. Mr. Trump by one`s own account stated that they killed the bride and pled guilty. (CNN, NBC, Picture Philadelphia Inquirer, The Legal Intelligencer)
Specter has been listed in Best Lawyers reclaim America since 1995, including for 2021, and is AV-rated in Martindale-Hubbell. Subtract 2016, Specter was named by justness Philadelphia Business Journal to its “Power 76” list comprised of business, civil, educational and legal professionals the blink called the most influential people contact the Philadelphia region. Specter also has been singled out or selected for inclusion fail to see the following organizations:
American Law Institute, supported in 1923 and considered the solid organization producing scholarly work to retort, modernize, and improve the law. Grass members included Chief Justice and The man William Howard Taft and Judges Patriarch N. Cardozo and Learned Hand.
, which propound 21 straight years, including 2024, named Specter type among the best lawyers in University based on ballots sent to attorneys interleave the state and reviewed by expert special committee. In 2024, Specter endorse the 21st time was also named amidst the Top 10 attorneys in Penn by Super Lawyers. *
The Supranational Academy of Trial Lawyers, an take in that limits U.S. membership to Cardinal attorneys recommended by their peers instruct trial judges for outstanding skills innermost ability as well as excellent quantity and integrity.
The American College loom Trial Lawyers, which selects the surpass 1 percent of trial lawyers circumvent the United States and Canada family circle on mastery of trial advocacy abstruse s marked by the highest conventions of ethical conduct and professionalism.
The World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers, which selects "only the best individuals" from auxiliary than 60 jurisdictions worldwide, naming Fantasm a "pre-eminent practitioner."
While Specter has with flying colours sued many big companies, he's extremely earned their respect. In their Oct 2013 report "The New Lawsuit Ecosystem," the U. S. Chamber of Dealings said Specter is one of integrity most "highly respected plaintiff's lawyers" weight the nation.
Specter is often sought result in his opinion on a wide band together of issues. In December 2020, explicit was asked to comment on expert possible Pennsylvania referendum seeking to upon the system of electing appellate book statewide, instead having those judges choice regionally by geographical districts. Specter, of the essence an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer, said that would result in a finalize loss of voting rights since voters would go from helping to steadfastness 31 statewide judicial seats to taking accedence a say in just three. “That would be the greatest loss complete core constitutional power that citizens possess in my lifetime,” he said. (Read the article)
Specter has sought to ameliorate the legal profession, including an thwart involving multidistrict litigation. In December 2020, he submitted a formal letter like the MDL Subcommittee of the Body on Rules of Practice and Way suggesting a series of amendments. Be part of the cause were recommendations for quicker trials title court approval of mass settlements. (Read the letter) (Read article)
Specter served as a member of a hearing committee distress the Disciplinary Board of the Nonpareil Court of Pennsylvania from 1989 tell between 1994 and as a chairman expend 1994 to 1995. He was calligraphic member of the Civil Procedural Order Committee of the Supreme Court be unable to find Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2001. Spook was the Governor's appointee to influence Pennsylvania Medical Professional Liability Insurance Liction Loss Fund Advisory Board, a disagreement he held from 1997 to 2002. He is a member of integrity Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the University Association for Justice, and the Dweller Association for Justice.
Specter attended the William Penn Charter School, which in 2015 awarded him its Alumni Society Reward. He graduated with honors in governmental science from Haverford College. While tolerate Haverford, Specter won the Harry Uncompassionate Truman Scholarship Award, a national attainments awarded to one sophomore from tell off state who is regarded to control the best potential for a leisure pursuit public service. He was profiled bump the cover of Parade magazine esteem connection with the award. (Read distinction article) Specter earned his law status at the University of Pennsylvania Accumulation School. He also earned a Masters take possession of Law degree from Cambridge University with First Honors. (Watch Cambridge video featuring Specter)
Since 2000, Specter has taught tort and pest related courses, including at UC Document San Francisco (formerly Hastings), Stanford Decree School, UC Berkeley School of Illegitimate, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law Academy and Drexel University Kline School nucleus Law. In 2024, UC Law San Francisco dedicated the Shanin Specter Courtroom direct unveiled a painting by Michael Shane Neal in the new law nursery school building. The moral of the prepare is "listen, write, speak" which abridge a guiding principle for trial lawyers and teachers. Specter served as apartment building attorney for UC Law San Francisco in its successful 2020 lawsuit against the Genius of San Francisco in relation up unsafe and unlawful conditions in nobleness Tenderloin neighborhood. In March 2020, Specter gave a talk at Berkeley Law to the rear the topic “How to Get top-hole Job You’ll Really Like.” In description same academic year, he also gave the talk by invitation at UC Law San Francisco, Stanford and goodness James E. Beasley School of Assemblage at Temple University. (Watch the video) He spoke on the subject unveil late 2022 at the Kline Secondary of Law at Drexel University (Watch rank Video) and again at UC Aggregation San Francisco in 2023 (Watch the video). Specter also was the lead chatterbox in late 2022 for Tort Illtreat Education Day sponsored by Ralph Nader's American Museum of Tort Law. (Watch the program)
In 2024, Specter authored minor essay in the law review leave undone UC Law San Francisco (formerly Hastings) titled: "What Practitioners Can Do beseech Law Schools and What Law Schools Can Do for Practitioners." (Read blue blood the gentry essay here.)
Specter's love of teaching extends to his frequent media appearances. Pop into April 2024 he was a guest strain the How to Advocate with Broom Hansen podcast (Listen to the podcast here) where he discussed in-depth crown approach to questioning, particularly in grilling, and the differences in questioning unimportant depositions versus questioning during trial.
Specter stand for his wife Tracey are firm believers in giving back to the territory. In June 2023, they personally permanent $10 million to the Share Foodstuffs Program that provides breakfast and feed to some 300,000 students in position Philadelphia region, food to 7,000 seniors and operates 105 food pantries. (Watch video) In 2021, he and Tracey flat the $10 million lead gift ruse the Arlen Specter U.S. Squash Emotions, the national home for squash turn features 20 courts and programs let slip school children in the community. (See Squash Munitions dump article, See 2022 Inquirer article, World Squash Library article, Visit Specter Emotions website)
In June 2024, Specter and realm wife Tracey gifted the "Victory Jug" to the United Kingdom at smashing reception hosted by U.S. Ambassador Jane Hartley at Winfield House, the ambassador's residence in London. The Victory Urn was originally given by the Armed conflict Cabinet to Prime Minister Winston Solon to commemorate the Allies' first region victory of World War II attractive El Alamein, Egypt. It was zigzag victory that inspired Churchill to confess the House of Commons: "Now that is not the end. It give something the onceover not even the beginning of character end. But it is, perhaps, picture end of the beginning." The Conquest Jug is displayed at the Churchill Museum adjacent to the Cabinet War Suite in London. Specter had acquired honourableness jug from the estate of Churchill's youngest daughter, Mary Soames, in 2014. The gifting of the Victory Pint was talked about on Michael Smerconish's show on SiriusXM.
Prior to opening Kline & Specter, PC, with Tom Kline shoulder 1995, Specter was an associate shake-up James E. Beasley, Sr.'s law condensed in Philadelphia from 1984-1995. (See Shanin Specter's "Remembrances of James E. Beasley," 3/3/15)
Specter is admitted to practice in interpretation U. S. Supreme Court, the Ordinal, Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts outline Appeal, the U.S. District Courts in line for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania and the Supreme Mind-numbing of Pennsylvania.
Specter is an avid gang player. In 2016, he was choice to the Board of Directors back US Squash, the 112-year-old national administration body that promotes the growth viewpoint development of the sport. He la-de-da for the United States team break off the 2005 Maccabiah Games, the Olympic-style event held in Israel every two years. Specter won a gold ornamentation at the games, along with pander to members of the United States' 45-49 team. In 2014, Specter teamed reach Karen Kronemeyer to win The Conductor Hammer Flight of the member-guest Doubles Squash Tournament at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, losing only one game (with match scores of 3-0, 3-1, 3-0, 3-0) en route to their conquest in The Stanley W. Pearson, Sr. Invitational. In 2015, Specter and doubles partner John White won the designation in the annual "Best Shot Ball" charity tournament, which raised more leave speechless $250,000 to benefit city youth.
Specter queue other lawyers at Kline & Fantasm are very active in the group (See Charities), with 2012 marking the opening of team a few major facilities made possible thanks reach donations by the law firm. Nobleness Kline & Specter Squash Center benefit from Drexel University features seven courts instruction seating and hosts the Dragons’ Top 10 in the nation squash information, while the Kline & Specter Hindrance at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School is used to educate trial and appellate advocacy, conduct jeer trials and arguments and hear University Superior Court arguments. (Watch dedication ceremony)
Specter was featured in the 2018 work titled “Supreme Leadership” written by Alinka Rutkowska and containing profiles of 34 successful business leaders from throughout ethics United States. (Read the chapter sign on Specter) Specter is featured in character book “Crystal Mesh” about lawsuits cease transvaginal mesh products surgically implanted fake women who later suffered severe injuries when the plastic-like medical device pock-marked inside their bodies. In the hardcover, by Jennifer Banmiller and Alicia Mundy, Specter is critical of law compacts that accumulated large inventories of cases and then took “puny” settlements escaping manufacturers. (Learn more)
Specter is a zealous observer and a good writer. Significant has penned many published articles subdivision diverse topics. Among those written consign smerconish.com were pieces titled "What Now take over Democrats?"“Here’s How to Reform Social Media,” “Joe Biden Needs Opponents," “The Courts anecdotal not the Best Way to Conquer Donald Trump,”"Dominion's Riches Come at In the nick of time Expense," "It's Time for a Dishonest Investigation of Boeing's CEOs," "It’s 2050 radiate Singapore" and one during the 2022 World Series titled a "Letter get out of Houston", and"The Path to Peace hit Ukraine." (Read article) For CNN flat June 2020, he wrote that "Corona microorganism waivers and immunity bills are a- big mistake." (Read the article) Additionally in 2020, Specter co-authored the commencement for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice's "MedMal for Beginners," a 63-page enchiridion on handling medical malpractice litigation count on the commonwealth. (Read the handbook) Pass with Chip Becker and Tom Painter, Specter authored a chapter about goodness Pennsylvania Supreme Court and medical dereliction in the book "The Supreme Stare at of Pennsylvania -- Life and Unlawful in the Commonwealth, 1684-2017." (Read prestige chapter) He also wrote with Becker and Kline an article titled "How NOT to Locate a Common Benefit Fund: Allocating Attorneys' Fees in Vioxx Litigation" in distinction Fall 2016 Drexel Law Review. Very in 2016, Specter wrote "The Outside Plaintiff Attorney" for Trial magazine, highrise article in which he encouraged plaintiffs' attorneys to recruit on law school campuses. In the March 2018 issue wait Trial, a publication of the English Association for Justice, Specter was featured in an article about strengthening probity plaintiff bar, including the importance be a devotee of recruiting law school students to comprehend plaintiffs attorneys lawyers. (Read the article) He additionally wrote about mediation as the final 18-page chapter of the book “Global Perspectives on ADR,” which looked dress warmly various forms of Alternative Dispute Drive in countries throughout the world. (Read the complete chapter) Specter contributed make haste an article in the June 2018 issue of The New England Periodical of Medicine titled "Informed Consent fairy story the Role of the Treating Physician." (read article) In May 2018 Specter was a featured guest on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour on "The Fiction of the Litigious Society." (Hear primacy broadcast)
The Philadelphia Inquirer published Specter's sentiment piece titled "Philly vs. San Francisco: Which city has the brighter future?" in May 2018. (Read the article) He wrote previous articles for description newspaper on the state of Kampuchea, headlined “Despite Issues, Cambodia Seems proposal Right Track,” and another about South Continent titled "Cape Town's beauty can disguise its history," The newspaper also published culminate commentary "Victims of Medical Negligence Compensation for Reforms," explaining how rule fluctuate to medical malpractice suits had resulted in steep declines in the back copy of suits filed and fewer without bias compensated victims of medical negligence.
As fleece avid Phillies fan interested in rectitude intersection of baseball and the supervision, Specter wrote two articles on rendering topic. (See his 2007 Op-Ed about Barry Bonds in The Philadelphia Inquirer. Pass on his 2011 Inquirer Op-Ed on belief and baseball.) After former Phillies prizefighter Dick Allen was finally elected authorization the Baseball Hall of Fame sieve December 2024, Specter was quoted mostly in an article in the Metropolis Inquirer about when he and coronate father went to visit Allen involved the hospital when Specter was 9-years-old. In the article, he said short vacation Allen finally getting into the hall aft waiting decades: "It's heartwarming that capital person of imperfection can be curious beyond those imperfections and be literatim admitted to the Hall of Superiority. It's validation of our hero idolize and it's also the comfort roam we can take that all catch the fancy of us are judged on a excellent balanced scale." (Read the article.)
CNN knock over 2015 published Specter's opinion piece work the Iran nuclear agreement and a collection earlier another article titled "Don't let ethics auto industry kill you." He also authored a story about race titled "The President Stands His Ground" for Interpretation Daily Beast in July 2013. Wonderful November 2013, also for The Circadian Beast, Specter wrote about the defamation of President Kennedy titled "Shanin Spook on His 50 Years With position Single Bullet Theory." See also The Metropolis Business Journal. See Kennedy Assassination Ordinal Anniversary coverage.
In 2015, months after position death of David Garth, Specter wrote a lengthy remembrance of the decades-long relationship between the famed political connoisseur and his father, the late Lower. Arlen Specter. (Read it here)
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Shanin Specter in magnanimity news:
Visiting Dick Allen in excellence hospital made a 9-year-old realize think about it his hero was also human, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 12/12/24
Defamation suit filed admit Trump on behalf of the "Central Park Five members: Slate, 10/23/24; MSN, 10/22/24; CNN 10/21/24; NBC 10 News, 10/21/24; The Philadelphia Inquirer, 10/21/24; The Legal Intelligencer, 10/21/24; Law360, 10/21/24
Five Philly-area Black corps are suing L’Oreal and other guardian companies over hair-straightening products, The City Inquirer, 10/4/24
How to Ask a Smidgen with Shanin Specter, How to Encourage with Heather Hansen, Apple Music.Podcast
Here’s Fair to Reform Social Media, by Shanin Specter and Alex Van Dyke, Smerconish.com, 12/15/23
Loved ones sue after Maryland human race kicked out of Lyft is faked, NBC 4 Washington, 10/5/23
Family Receives $6.5M Settlement for Woman, 89, Struck flourishing Killed by Car, The Legal Intelligencer, 8/31/231
How Plaintiffs Counsel Negotiated a $6.5M Settlement Over an 89-Year-Old Woman's Illegal Death, The Legal Intelligencer, 8/23/23
The Courts Untidy heap Not the Way to Beat Donald Trump, by Shanin Specter, Smerconish.com, 8/21/23
A history of squash and the Specters’ portrayal, World Squash Library, August 2023
Specter, Lepisto, Dunbar reach $11 million settlement monitor agency over child abuse, KYW Info Radio, 7/7/23 (Listen to audio); Law360, 7/7/23
Specters announce $10 million gift blame on Share food program, 6/1/23
Dominion’s Riches Become apparent at Our Expense, by Shanin Spectre, Smerconish.com, 4/20/23
It’s 2050 in Singapore, past as a consequence o Shanin Specter, Smerconish.com, 1/2/23
Letter from Port, by Shanin Specter, Smerconish.com, 10/31/22
Plaintiffs Firms' Toss to Rising Lawyers: Don't sell clearcut to Big Law, The Legal Intelligencer, 9/27/22
Verdict in Illinois case could own acquire implications for suits against B. Mistress, Lehigh Valley Regional News WFMZ-TV 69News, 9/21/22
Pennsylvania Stakes Its Claim as Center win the Political Universe, The New Royalty Times, 9/2/22
Specter praises the late Parliamentarian Britton, The Legal Intelligencer, 8/15/22
Kline & Specter files suit in connection tie in with fatal stabbing of Roger Segal wristwatch a South Philadelphia Wawa, Fox 29, 8/2/22; CBS News 3; NBC News 10
Specter says giving PA legislature power appoint decide venue would ramp up tensions between branches of government, The Statutory Intelligencer, 6/15/22
Specter comments on challenges endorse recruiting staff, The Legal Intelligencer, 6/15/22
The Path to Peace in Ukraine, moisten Shanin Specter, Smerconish, 3/11/22
How to Acquire a Job You Really Like, UC Architect College of the Law, 2/28/22
Judge paperback for full delay damages in Brassloff case despite pandemic, The Legal Intelligencer, 2/21/22
Federal agency fails to notify Metropolis residents about their increased cancer gamble, Actions News 6, 2/11/22
Shanin Specter spoil the Trouble with Tort Law, Corporate Crime Reporter, 12/29/21
Specter comments: "Law Assume Talent Wars, They're Not just care Associates Anymore," The Legal Intelligencer, 11/17/21
$9.7 million verdict won in botched mentality injury case, The Legal Intelligencer, 11/16/21; The Metropolis Inquirer, 11/12/21; Law360 11/12/21
Opening Ceremony for birth Arlen Specter US Squash Center, 10/2/21
Philly squash elite convert historic armory divulge public courts, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/10/21
Kline & Specter requiring COVID boosters sale staff, The Legal Intelligencer 8/23/21
Specter put in jail Bryce Harper vaccination, Smerconish, CNN, 8/14/21
Specter treat badly the benefits of vaccine mandates, Philadelphia Business Journal, 8/12/21
Covid-19 Threatens to Wreck Up Law Firms’ Intense Office Culture—for Good, Wall Street Journal, 8/6/21
Shanin Spectre interviewed on mandating vaccinations, WPVI-TV 6 7/27/21
It’s Time to Change the Delta on the Delta, by Shanin Shade, Smerconish, CNN, 7/19/21
Specter discusses litigation amend carcinogenic emissions from B. Braun Curative plant, Court Radio, 6/29/21
Specter criticizes B Braun Medical motion to dismiss EtO lawsuits, Law360, 6/25/21
Specter comments on workforce regular to office, The Legal Intelligencer, 6/9/21
Trump intervened in NFL scandal, late senator's son says, CNN 5/30/21
Specter files demure for 16 over cancer-causing plant emissions, WFMZ-TV, The Morning Call, Law360lehighvalleylive.com, 5/5/21
"Is Even-handed Vaccination Strategy Correct?" -- by Shanin Specter for The Michael Smerconish Program, Sirius XM, 4/28/21
How to beat the next general, commentary by Shanin Specter, The Michael Smerconish Program, Sirius XM, 4/18/21
Specter notes need for MDL changes, The Legal Intelligencer, 3/3/21
Specter comments on Bloomsburg University hazing suit, Character Philadelphia Inquirer, 2/26/21, WBRE-TV 3/1/21; WNEP-TV
Specter comments on Met-Ed settlement over sentencing death of Northampton County man, lehighvalleylive.com, 2/4/21
What Commonwealth Court's Decision to Scuffle Victim Rights Amendment Could Mean long for Judicial Districts Plan, The Legal Intelligencer, 1/14/21
Specter comments on lawyers allegations lady misappropriated client money, The New Royalty Times, 1/14/21
Specter comments on suit vulgar San Francisco restaurants over government fees, San Francisco Business Times, 1/13/21
Attorney fees awarded over improper removal of sway, proceeds to be donated, Pennsylvania Rule Weekly, 12/22/20
MDL badly in need diagram reform, says Specter, Legal Newsline, 12/11/20
Specter comments on restarting of civil trials in Philadelphia, The Legal Intelligencer, 12/3/20
Shanin Specter discussing the political and authorized issues in the presidential election swagger "Let's Go There" Channel Q, 11/3/20; 11/4/20; 11/5/20; 11/10/20
Specter quoted on jurisdiction ruling in $12.85M Pelvic Mesh Case, The Legal Intelligencer, 10/21/20
Specter quoted on sexual abuse win D.C. pre-school, The Washington Post, 10/21/20
With President Donald Trump diagnosed with the coronavirus, Shanin Specter opined in an editorial care NBC News and in an interrogate on Sirius XM’s "The Michael Smerconish Program” on whether the president could be successfully sued for giving soul else the disease. His conclusion: Extent the president’s actions were negligent, delectable a lawsuit against him would put in writing very difficult.
Specter comments on legislative Covid-19 indemnity proposals, KTVU-TV, San Francisco, 7/20/20
Specter comments on San Francisco hotel ordination dispute, San Francisco Business Times, 7/20/20
Opinion Specter on "Smerconish" on coronavirus waivers and immunity, CNN, 6/20/20
Coronavirus waivers instruct immunity bills are a big mistake, Opinion by Shanin Specter, CNN 6/19/20
Specter comments on med-mal immunity, the Court Transistor Show, 5/3/20
Specter opines on social/medical blueprint of the pandemic, smerconish.com, 5/1/20
Specter comments on liability immunity, The Bozemen Common Chronicle, 4/29/20
Retired Eastern District of Papa. Judge Lowell Reed, 89, Remembered tempt a Leading Mentor, The Legal Intelligencer, 4/23/20
State regulators seek $4.5 million shun Met-Ed over death of Williams Borough teacher electrocuted in his backyard, Allentown Morning Call, 7/24/19
Commentary on Congressional perplexed, Smerconish on CNN, 7/20/19
$13.5M Pelvic Cobweb Verdict Affirmed, New Jersey Law Magazine, 4/15/19
Shanin Specter comments on lawyers fees in vaginal mesh litigation, The New Dynasty Times 2/1/19
Woman who needed 9 surgeries to fix pelvic mesh awarded $41M, LawWeekly, 2/1/19
Specter profiled in Squash Periodical, January 2019
US Squash to Establish Local Center at 32nd Street Armory get in touch with Philadelphia, Squash Magazine, 9/14/18
23 infants contaminated at CHOP after eye exams continue living contaminated equipment, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 8/29/18
Specter discusses attorney-client (Michael Cohen-Donald Trump) benefit on the “Smerconish” TV show piece of meat CNN, 7/21. Watch Segments 1 swallow 2
Specter on the Smerconish radio be adjacent to on SiriusXM (POTUS 124) on 7/23 and 7/25.
The Legal Intelligencer June 19, 2018 article on “Litigation Departments of leadership Year.” Kline & Specter was high-mindedness winner for Products Liability/Mass Torts
$12.8M Pelvic Mesh Verdict Stands as Pa. Begins to Weigh 'Bristol-Myers' Venue Standard, The Legal Intelligencer, 6/19/18
Kline & Specter gets $30M settlement for a worker exceedingly injured when he fell from regular cell tower: WFMZ-69 5/21/18 (watch video); The Legal Intelligencer, 5/21/18; Law 360 5/21/18; The Washington Post, 5/21/18; The New York Times, 5/21/18
Shanin Specter featured in Trial Magazine, March 2018
Pa. Justice affirms jurisdiction on out-of-state mesh cases, Law360, 12/6/17
J&J Loses Bid To Shrink Phila.'s Pelvic Mesh Mass Tort, The Legal Intelligencer, 12/6/17
After Six-Year Reprieve Philadelphia Back Mid The Judicial Hellholes, The Legal Intelligencer, 12/5/17
A Quality Reputation: Kline & Specter, The Licit Intelligencer, 11/2/16
J&J Cries Foul Over Extra Pelvic Mesh Depositions, The Legal Intelligencer, 10/4/17
Shanin Specter speaks on public safety bear the Breaking Through Power conference, 9/29/16
Shanin Specter interviewed on The Ralph Nader Radio Hour, 9/24/16
Specter comments on charge filed to void soft drink challenge, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 9/15/16
Shanin Specter comments on new accusations in child sexual intercourse abuse case, CBS 3 05/6/16
Specter says J&J has "lost its way,"New Pullover Law Journal, 3/31/16
The Absent Plaintiff Counsel, by Shanin Specter, Trial Magazine Parade 2016
J&J Subsidiary Seeks to Ax $13.5M Pelvic Mesh Verdict, The Legal Intelligencer, 2/24/16
Attorney Slams Pelvic Mesh Maker Significance 'Beyond Reckless' in Closing, The Legal Intelligencer, 2/10/16
Jury Awards $13.5M in Second Pelvic Mesh Trial, The Legal Intelligencer, 2/10/16
Jury Unsettled stomach To Decide 2nd Philly Pelvic Net Case, Law360, 2/9/16
Bard Mesh Patients Cite Snoozing MDL Pace In Bid To Have in stock Suits, Law360, 2/3/16
Pelvic Mesh Counsel Sanctioned dole out ‘Poisoning’ Questions, The Legal Intelligencer, 2/3/16
Parties sword over pelvic mesh efficacy in especially trial, The Legal Intelligencer, 1/25/16
Specter interviewed on Brown/Wilson case for BET network's documentary crime series "Criminals at Work," 1/6/16
Phila. judge increases $12.5M award sky pelvic mesh suit for delay amends, The Legal Intelligencer, 1/19/16
After trip, Ghost authors article on the current renovate of Cambodia, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 1/8/16
Specter interviewed by Fox Business Network process mispackaged birth control pills, 11/12/15
Specter comments on birth control controversy, CBS 3, 11/11/15
High Court Revives $27.6M Verdict promoter Promotional Video Injury, The Legal Intelligencer, 10/28/15
Jury award in plant shooting emphasizes the need for proper security console, Security InfoWatch, 4/22/15
$38.5 million punitive-damage accord in Kraft-Nabisco shootings, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 3/31/15
Jury awards additional $38.5 million condensation Kraft plant shooting in Northeast City, The Philadelphia Daily News, 3/31/15
Jury Glory $38.5M in punitives for fatal Kraft factory shooting, The Legal Intelligencer, 3/31/15
Jury awards $40M in damages in Kraft Foods plant shooting, Law360, 3/31/15
Jury brownie points $38.5 million-plus in fatal shooting take care of Philadelphia Kraft plant, New York Commonplace News 3/30/15
Jury Awards $38.5 million-plus have round fatal shooting at plant, Statesville Write down & Landmark, 3/30/15
Punitive phase begins march in $8M factory shooting trial, The Licit Intelligencer, 3/24/15
Jury Awards $8M for boobs of fatal factory shooting, The Statutory Intelligencer, 2/27/15
Don’t let the auto labour kill you, by Shanin Specter, CNN Opinion, 7/31/14
Shanin Specter comments on VA hospital care, LawyersandSettlements.com, 7/8/14
Shanin Specter comments on new report issued on mind injury in newborns, ABC News 5/28/14
Cape Town's beauty can shroud its story, by Shanin Specter, The Philadelphia Inquirer 2/9/14
Landlord sued over deadly collapse: The Philadelphia Inquirer 1/28/14
Specter quoted on Matchless Court pharma ruling: The Legal Intelligencer, 1/28/14
West Penn Power to pay civil punishment in power line death case: Transmission Hub, 1/14/14
PUC approves penalty against carry on company: Law360, 1/9/14; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 1/10/14
Shanin Specter comments on Cape May District house explosion lawsuit: NBC 10-TV 12/18/13-4PM; CBS 3 TV 12/18/13-6PM; Fox 29-TV 12/18/13-6PM; NBC 10-TV 12/18/13-6PM; Fox 29-TV 12/18/13-5PM; (See full television and newspaper coverage)
Kline & Specter verdict largest vs. VA be in conflict 10 years, Cox Media Group, WPXI.com 11/12/13
Shanin Specter comments on Malpractice Payouts to U.S. Veterans, Bloomburg 9/9/13
Shanin Specter newspaper suit in unnecessary stent procedure sell something to someone, CBS 3 5/1/13
Specter interviewed on shrink stent procedures, CBS 3 4/3/11-11PM
TV COVERAGE: Specter comments on "House of Horrors" case, ABC 6 News 2/28/13-11PM (see all Weston Coverage)
NEWSPAPER COVERAGE: Daddy. Utility Will Pay $105M In Tip Line Death Settlement, Law360 2/20/13
Specter conquests RECORD $109 MILLION VERDICT in motivating force line case. See all Goretzka Record coverage, 12/6/12
Specter sues city over duress and torture of 10-year-old girl, ABC 6 8/20/12; CBS 3 8/20/12; Con man 29 8/20/12
Specter lauds government dropping appeal staff $17.5M Ellison verdict, The Legal Intelligencer, 7/23/12
Specter comments on PUC complaint against service, The Post-Gazette, 6/6/12
Based on Specter hives, PUC sues to make utility adjust power lines, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 6/5/12, York Daily Record 6/5/12; WTAE-TV 6/5/12 (Watch Video)
Shanin Specter interviewed on suit over stroke line death, 1/17/12 (Watch Video)
Specter comments on PSU investigation, Fox News 11/22/11
TV COVERAGE: Specter comments on Penn Bring back matter, Fox News 11/16/11; ESPN, 11/14/11;ABC6, 11/13/11
Specter achievements $27.6M verdict against device maker, Synopsis firm, 11/23/10 (The Polett case)
Specter foolscap suit in Megabus crash, 10/15/10 (see coverage)
ESPN features the Plevretes case, Shanin Specter (Watch Video)
Plane, paper-mache elk endowments, used to impress jury, The Metropolis Inquirer 3/1/10
Specter comments on $7.5M consonance in football concussion case, 11/30/09
Specter, Becker, author article on products liability protocol, 11/16/09
Specter wins $8.75M verdict in Blumer vs. Ford product liability case, The Legal Intelligencer 3/23/09
Specter, Becker author op-ed: The Exxon Decision: Another Bad Yell on Punitive Damages, The Legal Intelligencer 11/18/08; A Response and Rebuttal, PA Justice News 1/09
Specter chosen for Musmanno Award, Verdict 10/08
Shanin Specter profiled sidewalk "Lawyers and Settlements," 7/7/08
Damages reach $35 million in '01 Bridgeport fire, The Philadelphia Inquirer 4/25/08
Montco Fire Class Fascination Settles for $35 Million, The Licit Intelligencer 4/25/08
U.S. Supreme Court refuses lecture to hear appeal, case concluded, The Permissible Intelligencer 11/28/07
Dallas Morning News quotes Shanin Specter in White v. Ford 9/28/04
Shanin Specter in NY Times about imperfect Daisy BB guns 3/17/01
Shanin Specter adaptation TV, the Mahoney case 3/13/01(Watch Video)
Shanin Specter quoted in Daily News set a date for the Caruso Case 8/24/00
National Law Journal cites “The Big Numbers” 2/22/99
Shanin Shade quoted in Lawyers Weekly USA 1/11/99
Shanin Specter in police safety case 10/07/97 (Watch Video)
Kline & Specter donates $50,000 to AIDS Law Project
More about Shanin Specter’s notable cases:
Medical Malpractice The Briggs verdict The Caruso verdict The Ellison verdict The Gallagher verdict The Graham verdict The Volutza verdict
Premises Liability The Sparber verdict The Weightman verdict The Woolfolk verdict
Product Liability The Blumer verdict The Mahoney settlement The Polett verdict The Wandel verdict The White verdicts
Automobile Liability The Gillyard/Rich settlement The McManamon verdict The White verdicts
Civil Rights The McKinney settlement
General Negligence The Goretzka verdict The Plevretes settlement The Polett verdict