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About Albert Afonso
Al Afonso has spent more than 20 years as a practicing attorney concentrating his practice on criminal matters, child protection and permanency proceedings, and immigration-related matters. He was a solo practitioner for more than 10 years before co-founding Afonso Archie Foley, P.C. Born in Porto, Portugal, Al is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish. He earned his undergraduate degree from Philadelphia University and his J.D. from The Shepard Broad College of Law at Nova Southeastern University, and is licensed to practice in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the District of New Jersey.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig
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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.
A Philadelphia jury found Pottstown Memorial Medical Center liable for a newborn's severe spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy after the hospital's outdated, unmaintained ultrasound equipment led a physician to incorrectly declare the baby dead, delaying an emergency cesarean section by 81 minutes.
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.
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