has concentrated his practice in the defense of medical and psychiatric malpractice claims during the course of his 45-year career, in which he has represented teaching hospitals, attending staff, residents and nurses throughout Philadelphia and southeastern Pennsylvania. Mr. Brophy also developed an extensive product liability practice, defending automotive and trucking manufacturers, as well as playground and agricultural equipment producers. A four-year appointment as staff attorney for the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals early in his career he became the foundation of his interest in appellate advocacy, followed by appearances in multiple state and federal appellate courts, as well as the United States Supreme Court. Mr. Brophy's professional reputation has resulted in AV status for 25 years as recognized by his peers, accompanied by Super Lawyer status each year from 2010 through 2017. He has served as a panel member for multiple continuing legal education seminars, and in 2004 had the unique privilege of presenting Grand Rounds at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on the topic of psychiatric malpractice law. A prolific writer, Mr. Brophy is the author of a textbook, Medical Malpractice Depositions (Juris Publishing 2004), multiple CLE workbooks, and a series of articles in his role as contributing editor for the "Medical Malpractice Law and Strategy" newsletter. Most recently, he collaborated with Judge Daniel Anders of the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas in an article addressing the role of alternative dispute resolution to reduce the civil case backlog resulting from the pandemic. Raised near Cooperstown in Otsego County, New York, Mr. Brophy's family ties and lifelong friendships provide good reason for his regular trips upstate when his schedule permits. A Philadelphia sports fan, he follows the Phillies and Eagles in good times and bad.

is the managing partner in the law firm of Cohen, Placitella, & Roth Law Offices. He is chairman of the firm's professional liability department. Mr. Roth concentrates his practice on medical malpractice litigation, product liability litigation, and other catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death cases. He also represents individuals, governmental entities and companies seeking to recover for economic loss or property damage sustained as a result of the wrongful conduct of others. Mr. Roth has been selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers of America. Additionally, he serves as director, The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (1998-2008); member, Leadership Class, National Multiple Sclerosis Society; trustee, The Philadelphia School; board chair, The Philadelphia School (2009-2012); trustee, Beth Zion-Beth Israel Synagogue (2006-2019); member, Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee of The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (1994-2000); lecturer on public safety and health issues and the law; and trustee, coach and uniform consultant for Taney Youth Baseball Association (1995-2005).

has been dedicated to complex personal injury litigation, as one of the leading medical malpractice lawyers in Pennsylvania. His concentration also includes product's liability and pharmaceutical cases. He is routinely named as one of The Best Lawyers in America (a book which is the oldest and most respected peer-review guide to legal excellence in the United States), a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (a listing of exceptional lawyers from over 70 areas of practice; only 5 percent of the lawyers from a particular state or region are included), one of the Top 100 lawyers in Philadelphia, one of the Top 100 lawyers in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Rothweiler is a past president of the Pennsylvania Association of Justice (formerly known as the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association) and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. Outside of the courtroom, he has been the creator of programs such as "My First Trial" and "View From The Bench" which serve to train and educate young trial attorneys. Mr. Rothweiler also served as a charter board member for the nonprofit organization, The Brain Injury Association of Pennsylvania. In 2002, he rallied patients in Harrisburg to protest potential changes in the law, which would have denied victims of medical malpractice access to a courtroom trial. As a result, Mr. Rothweiler assisted in the creation of legislation that promoted patient safety. He has served since 2009 as a legal analyst for Fox 29 News and for the Good Day Program, analyzing national trials and breaking down complex legal issues. Mr. Rothweiler has also appeared nationally on Fox and Friends and CNN.

has spent his 34 year legal career litigating complex injury and death cases. He has been repeatedly voted as a Top 10 lawyer in the state in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers rankings and selected for inclusion to Best Lawyers in America for the past dozen years; named its "Lawyer of the Year" for personal injury litigation in Philadelphia in 2021. Mr. Lawn has secured multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for clients injured or killed by medical malpractice, defective products, motor vehicle accidents, and workplace injuries. He has been inducted as a fellow of both the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and the American College of Trial Lawyers, two preeminent trial lawyer organizations whose membership is by invitation, and only extended to trial attorneys who have demonstrated exceptional courtroom skill and the highest standards of professionalism and ethics. The International Academy membership is limited to just 500 attorneys in the United States. Mr. Lawn has given more than one hundred presentations, lectures and seminars to lawyers and judges on various topics in personal injury litigation. He taught Advanced Trial Advocacy from 1999 -2009 was an adjunct professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law. In June 2019, Mr. Lawn was one of three plaintiff attorneys to testify before members of the Pennsylvania House and Senate advocating to change the venue rules for medical malpractice lawsuits. He presents the civil law update to trial judges from across the Commonwealth at the Pennsylvania State Conference of Trial Judges. Mr. Lawn has served as reviewer of two textbooks on Pennsylvania civil trial practice, and is the co-editor of the last three editions of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Civil Practice Manual. He is past-president of both the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates.

co-founded O'Brien & Ryan, LLP in 1986. He has tried hundreds of cases in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania in state and federal courts. Mr. Ryan has successfully defended hospitals and physicians of virtually every specialty in complex medical negligence litigation. In addition to his representation of physicians, hospitals and health care systems, he has served as liaison counsel for medical specialists in consolidated state and multi-district litigation. Mr. Ryan's practice also includes the defense of attorneys in legal malpractice actions and the mediation of a wide range of major claims and disputes. In 2016, he addressed the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges on the subject of medical liability litigation; and in 2019, he addressed the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges on the subject of MCARE - Update on Medical Malpractice. Mr. Ryan is a member of a number of associations that allow admittance by invitation only, including: Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, since 2003; Member, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, since 2017; Past-president, Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. In additional to these memberships, he has acquired a Peer Review rating 5.0 out of 5 (Preeminent) on Martindale.com and has been selected as one the the Top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania for 19 consecutive years (2004-present) by the independent, peer-review rating service Super Lawyers, and, during that period, has twice been designated as one of the Top 10 lawyers in Pennsylvania.

has focused his professional efforts on the defense of health care providers in professional liability matters for more than 40 years. He served as the vice chair of his firm's health care liability practice group and represented hospitals, physicians, long-term care facilities and other health care providers in professional liability claims. Mr. Sherry also represented attorneys in professional liability claims. He now devotes all of his practice to serving as an arbitrator and mediator in cases where the parties have privately retained him for those purposes. Mr. Sherry earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, then returned to Pennsylvania to secure his Juris Doctor from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has accumulated a number of honors and awards over his career, including: fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers; AV Preeminent by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell; Best Lawyers in America, Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants, 2006-Present; Best Lawyers in America Philadelphia Personal Injury Litigation-Defendants "Lawyer of the Year", 2013; Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2004-2022; Top 100 Pennsylvania: 2006, 2008-2022; Top 100 Philadelphia: 2007-2022; and fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

is a founding partner of Feldman Shepherd and has devoted her legal career to helping those catastrophically injured by medical malpractice. For 40 years, she has vigorously advocated for her clients in claims against healthcare providers arising from obstetric and childbirth injuries, delayed diagnosis of cancer, improperly performed surgery, and other types of substandard medical care. Each year since 2004, Ms. Shepherd has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Womens Super Lawyers in Pennsylvania, as a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and as a Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Super Lawyer. In 2015, she was designated by Best Lawyers in America as Lawyer of the Year in the field of medical malpractice law. Ms. Shepherd is the recipient of The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association's Justice Michael A. Musmanno Award, the highest honor bestowed upon any Philadelphia trial lawyer. She has also been a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since her induction in 2006, and a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America since 2010. A distinguished lecturer and author of articles regarding medical malpractice and trial preparation, Ms. Shepherd has also held prominent leadership positions in regional and national legal organizations. She was the first woman president of The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and was also elected president of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. In 2015-2016, Ms. Shepherd served as president of the Board of the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP), an organization that addresses the unmet legal needs of Philadelphia's homeless and shelter populations. She is a Syracuse University College of Law graduate and is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Shepherd has been admitted pro hac vice in New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Michigan.

graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with highest honors in 1975 and from its school of law in 1978, where he was a member of the Law Review. After a three-year term as a law clerk in federal district court, Mr. Gismondi entered private practice in 1981 and has limited his practice to one area of the law; helping victims and their families in personal injury litigation related to medical mistakes, car/truck or airplane accidents, unsafe work conditions, and a variety of other circumstances. A frequent interview guest on local television, his cases have been featured nationally on the ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, 20/20, The O'Reilly Factor, CNN, and in People Magazine. The nation's most-recognized reference source on lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, gives Mr. Gismondi an A/V rating, which is their highest rating for both legal ability and personal qualities such as reliability, diligence, and honesty. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and is listed in Best Lawyers in America. In 2013, The Legal Intelligencer, the nation's oldest legal journal, honored him as the only Pittsburgh area attorney to receive its Lifetime Achievement Award for his impact on the legal profession in Pennsylvania. Mr. Gismondi has been chosen by his peers for many leadership positions, including president of the 7,000-member Allegheny County Bar Association, president of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, and president of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, Western Pennsylvania Chapter. Mr. Gismondi is the past chairman of the Medical Malpractice Section of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. He is also an invited member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, the nation's most prestigious group of courtroom attorneys. Mr. Gismondi is one of the state's best-known speakers at conferences designed to teach other lawyers about personal injury law. He has been invited to speak at well over 100 such events throughout Pennsylvania. In addition to his practice of law, Mr. Gismondi is actively involved at the University of Pittsburgh. Since 1985 he has served as an adjunct professor of law teaching a course entitled Trial Advocacy. In 2003 with his active assistance, the law school established the John P. Gismondi Civil Litigation Certificate Program, a unique curriculum designed to provide special training to law students who wish to become courtroom attorneys. In 2008, the law school named Mr. Gismondi as the recipient of its Distinguished Alumnus Award. In 2012, The University at large named him a Legacy Laureate, a select honor reserved for only its most prominent graduates.

is of counsel with Duane Morris LLP, where she has tried to verdict more than 90 major civil jury trials in both the state and federal courts and has experience in handling hundreds of arbitration and mediations. Her trial skill was recognized nationally when she became a fellow of the American Academy of Trial Lawyers in 2017 Ms. O'Donnell's practice focuses on problem solving, managing risk, and trying the most challenging cases for her clients. Her active trial practice focuses on health effects litigation including injuries from a wide variety of industrial products, mass and toxic torts involving exposures to pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and most recently claims of injury related to nuclear exposures. Ms. O'Donnell's practice has included the defense of nuclear-related facilities against both property damage and alleged radiation injury claims and has defended nearly 100 personal injury and property damage matters in both the state and federal courts that involve the use, storage and transportation of ultra-hazardous materials. She has been in leadership of the litigation section of the American Bar Association for nearly a decade. Currently, Ms. O'Donnell serves as co-chair of the inaugural Diverse Trial Lawyers' Academy. She has held a wide variety of positions with the ABA including Director for Divisions V and VI, and co-chair of both the Woman Advocate and Mass Torts Committees. In 2009, Ms. O'Donnell was recognized as outstanding subcommittee chair for her work with the Women Advocate Committee. As a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, she serves on the Federal Civil Procedures and Jury Trial committees. Ms. O'Donnell was recently featured in a ACTL video to be distributed nationally to promote civility in the practice of law. She is a two-term past co-chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession. Ms. O'Donnell is a master and former executive committee member of the Temple American Inn of Court. Ms. O'Donnell served as a member of Duane Morris' Partners Board from 2007 to 2010 and served on the Women's Impact Network for Success (WINS) Steering Committee. In 2007-2023, she was recognized in U.S. News Best Lawyers "The Best Lawyers in America" in the areas of products liability and professional malpractice. For 15 years, she has been designated one of Pennsylvania's "Super Lawyers" in a statewide survey. Ms. O'Donnell has also been named as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She earned her J.D. degree, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law. Ms. O'Donnell is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, U.S. District Court for the Middle and Eastern districts of Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, and Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.