Alan Feldman
About Alan Feldman
Alan M. Feldman is Co-Managing Shareholder and one of the founders of Feldman Shepherd. He is a seasoned trial attorney who has secured many multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements across a wide variety of cases, including injuries from defective consumer products, auto and truck crashworthiness defects, sexual abuse on college campuses, and class action lawsuits against automotive and medical industries. Alan is one of a small number of trial lawyers to have successfully tried class actions to jury verdict. Recognized as a Top 10 Super Lawyer in Pennsylvania every year since 2010, he was ranked the number two Super Lawyer in Pennsylvania in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021. He served as Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 2006 and is a Fellow of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. A Temple University Beasley School of Law graduate, Alan is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Notable case results
A $160 million settlement -- the largest pre-verdict settlement in Pennsylvania court history -- resolved claims against U-Haul after an overfilled propane tank exploded at a North Philadelphia food truck, killing a mother and her teenage daughter and severely burning three others.
Feldman Shepherd secured a combined $50 million settlement from IKEA on behalf of three families whose toddler sons were fatally crushed by MALM dressers, a result that preceded a nationwide recall of approximately 29 million chests and dressers.
Alan Feldman of Feldman Shepherd secured a $46 million settlement against IKEA on behalf of the family of a 2-year-old boy crushed by a MALM dresser in California, reported at the time as the largest child wrongful-death settlement in U.S. history.
Feldman Shepherd secured a $26.1 million settlement for the family of a man killed and a husband left with a traumatic brain injury when a tractor-trailer hit stopped traffic on Interstate 80 at more than 70 mph.
A Philadelphia jury held J.B. Hunt Transport 40% liable for catastrophic injuries to a roadside pedestrian after finding the freight broker failed to screen its independent-contractor driver, who was operating with a blood alcohol level more than four times the commercial legal limit.
For the families of three toddlers fatally injured by IKEA dresser tip-overs
For burn injury to a child caused by defective design of a water dispenser
In IKEA dresser tip-over case
In a Philadelphia tractor-trailer accident, believed to be one of the largest personal injury settlements ever reported in Pennsylvania
Against the manufacturer of a portable electric heater that caused a house fire resulting in two fatalities and one catastrophically injured infant
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
