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Peter M. Newman

Peter M. Newman
pnewman@feldmanshepherd.com

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 clerked for the Honorable Stephen J. McEwen, Jr., President Judge Emeritus of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, in 1991 and 1992. Prior to joining Feldman, Shepherd, Wohlgelernter, Tanner and Weinstock, 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.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Products Liability
Medical Malpractice
Motor Vehicle Accidents
Automotive Crashworthiness
Construction Accidents
Premises Liability
Civil Rights

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

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Trial Lawyers Association
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
Philadelphia Bar Association

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, B.A., 1988
Tulane University, J.D., cum laude, 1991