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Phone: (215) 567-8300 Fax: (215) 567-8333 cchopko@feldmanshepherd.com |
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Carolyn M. ChopkoPractice Areas: Birth Trauma and Birth Injuries, Obstetrical and Gynecological Malpractice, Medical Malpractice, Product Liability, Personal Injury
Carolyn (Carey) Chopko focuses her practice on representing clients and their families who have been catastrophically injured as a result of negligence.
Ms. Chopko obtained her undergraduate degree in nursing from Villanova University. She then spent four years as a registered nurse while on active duty as an officer in the United States Navy. She obtained her law degree from Villanova University School of Law, where she was a finalist and best oralist in the Reimal Moot Court competition. While at Villanova, Ms. Chopko served as a staff writer on the Environmental Law Journal. Upon graduation, she received the Arthur J. Kania award for Professional Ethics. Following graduation, Ms. Chopko served as a law clerk to the Honorable Bonnie Brigance Leadbetter of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Chopko is licensed to practice law in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, but also regularly assists in trying cases throughout the United States on a pro hac vice basis. She has been admitted pro hac vice to the courts of California, Florida, Georgia, Massachusetts, New York, Tennessee, and Texas.
In 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007, Ms. Chopko was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star and was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in 2013 by Thomson Reuters, published annually in Philadelphia magazine.
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Bar Admissions |
- Pennsylvania, 2005
- New Jersey, 2005
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Education |
- Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 2004
Environmental Law Journal, Staff Writer
Arthur J. Kania Award for Professional Ethics
Reimel Moot Court Competition, finalist, best oralist - Villanova University, BSN (Nursing), 1997
Sigma Theta Tau National Nursing Honor Society
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Professional Affiliations |
- Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association), 2005 - Present
- Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, 2005 - Present
- American Association for Justice (formerly Association of Trial Lawyers of America), 2006 - Present
Birth Trauma Litigation Group, 2006 - Present - Philadelphia Bar Association, 2005 - Present
Young Lawyers Division, 2005 - Present
Executive Committee, 2007 - 2008
Treasurer, 2009 - 2010
Chair-Elect, 2010 - 2011
Chair, 2011 - Present
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Media Center |
- Feldman Shepherd Personal Injury Attorneys Named to 2013 PA Super Lawyers and Rising Stars List
May 17, 2013 - 14 Feldman Shepherd Personal Injury Lawyers Named to 2012 Lists of PA Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
May 24, 2012 - 13 Feldman Shepherd Personal Injury Lawyers Named to 2011 Lists of PA Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
May 27, 2011 - Feldman Shepherd Trial Lawyers Present Creative Trial Strategies Program with The Legal Intelligencer
May 12, 2011 - New YLD Chair Aims for More Connected Legal Community (The Legal Intelligencer)
January 6, 2011 - Feldman Shepherd Personal Injury Attorneys Selected as 2010 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers and Rising Stars
May 25, 2010 - Philadelphia Personal Injury Attorneys Teach Effective Use of Trial Exhibits at Villanova Law
March 8, 2010 - Philadelphia Trial Lawyer Carolyn M. Chopko Voted Chair-Elect of Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyers Division
December 4, 2009 - Phila. Firm Secures Back-to-Back $6 Mil. Settlements (The Legal Intelligencer)
August 12, 2009 - Slutsky Family Files Civil Lawsuit Against Fairy-Tales Daycare Center in Penndel PA for Death of Two-Year-Old Son
July 22, 2009 - Eight Feldman Shepherd Attorneys Named 2009 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers
May 26, 2009 - Dan Weinstock and Carolyn Chopko Present Medical Malpractice Issues at Temple Law
- Seven Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig Lawyers Named 2008 Super Lawyers
September 1, 2008 - Developing and Supporting Theories of Hospital Liability in
Catastrophic Injury Cases
August 10, 2008
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Publications & Lectures |
- Naturalization Ceremony, Speaker
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
July 2008, July 2009 - My First Philadelphia Common Pleas Trial
Philadelphia Bar Association, Bench Bar
Atlantic City, New Jersey, September 2008 - Developing and Supporting Theories of Hospital Liability in Catastrophic Injury Cases
Co-author with Daniel S. Weinstock, Esq.
August 10, 2008 - The Paralegals Guide to Proficient Medical Records Translation
Institute for Paralegal Education, a division of National Business Institute, Inc.
Philadelphia, January 2008 - My First Trial Seminar
Pennsylvania Association for Justice (formerly PTLA)
October 2007 - Medical Records Review for Paralegals
Institute for Paralegal Education, a division of National Business Institute, Inc.
Philadelphia, April 2007 - Northern District of California Delivers “Sound” Judgment in Protection of Marine Wildlife Under the MMPA, Restricting Navy’s Use of Sonar
15 Villanova Environmental.Law Journal, 393-413 (2004)
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