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About Jimmy Chong
Jimmy Chong is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, Delaware, and New Jersey, and in the federal District Courts for Washington, D.C., Delaware, and the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. He has offices in Wilmington, Delaware, Lansdale, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He focuses his practice on personal injury law and patent infringement law, and has also handled business transactions, landlord tenant law, contract law, and criminal law.
Chong has been rated by Super Lawyers, the National Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Association of Distinguished Counsel. He is a member of the Board of Directors at the Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation and Penn Asian Senior Services, and has served as a board member and chairman of the Korean American Association of Greater Philadelphia. He has served as co-chair or co-vice chair of the Montgomery Bar Association Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee since 2019, and received the Horace A. Davenport Diversity Award in 2019 for that work.
He is a certified mediator and certified arbitrator for the New Castle County Superior Court, a certified arbitrator for the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and a member of the Pennsylvania Council of Mediators. He has served as a mediator for the Philadelphia Eviction Diversion Program since 2020 and on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Office of Disciplinary Counsel's Hearing Committee since 2021.
Chong earned his J.D. from Widener University School of Law, now Delaware Law School, and an estate planning certificate through the LLM graduate tax program at Temple University Beasley School of Law. He earned his B.S. in business management and B.A. in economics from Bucknell University, where he held the Bucknell Scholarship all four years he attended.
Chong was born and raised in Delaware, later lived in Philadelphia, and now resides with his family in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. His parents immigrated from South Korea. He enjoys playing soccer, coaching youth soccer, and has run several half marathons.
Proven verdicts and settlements
On March 7, 2015, Ludmilla Permint was driving a 2014 Kia Soul in Sussex County when another vehicle struck it, and her husband Charles Permint, 74, seated in the front passenger seat, suffered fatal blunt chest trauma. The Permint family sued Kia Motors Corporation, Kia Motors America, and the dealership defendants, arguing a defective seat belt and restraint system let him strike the dashboard on impact. After a two-week trial in Delaware Superior Court, a jury found Kia negligent in the design of the restraint system and negligent in failing to warn of the risk, and awarded $1,600,000 in compensatory damages, apportioned among his widow, son, daughter, and granddaughter. The court denied Kia's post-trial motion for judgment as a matter of law or a new trial and the same day granted the family prejudgment interest of $647,276.67, bringing the total judgment to roughly $2.25 million.
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