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Biography
Peter M. Newman is a trial attorney representing plaintiffs in catastrophic personal injury litigation including products liability, medical malpractice, automotive, premises liability and other complex personal injury and wrongful death actions. Mr. Newman has helped clients and their families obtain multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts by uncovering defects in the design and manufacture of machinery, by exposing the dangerous and illegal practices of a trucking company and its tractor-trailer driver, and in cases involving pharmaceutical side-effects, birth injuries, construction site injuries and claims against physicians and hospitals for failure to diagnose life-threatening conditions.
Mr. Newman earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988 and his law degree, cum laude, from Tulane University in 1991.
He served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., President Judge Emeritus of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in 1991 and 1992.
Prior to joining Feldman Shepherd, Mr. Newman was an associate at Kline & Specter, P.C., and a shareholder at Lavin, Coleman, O’Neil, Ricci, Finarelli & Gray, where he represented automotive, industrial and consumer product manufacturers in products liability actions.
Mr. Newman is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations and the Philadelphia Bar Association. Bar Admissions - Pennsylvania, 1992
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1996
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1997
Education - University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1988
- Tulane University, J.D., cum laude, 1991
Professional Affiliations - American Trial Lawyers Association
- Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
- Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
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