About Alex Van Dyke

Alex Van Dyke is a trial attorney at Kline & Specter whose practice focuses on complex personal injury, wrongful death and mass tort litigation. He is a member of the team litigating claims against Monsanto related to the weedkiller Roundup, which has resulted in jury verdicts of $2.25 billion, $175 million, and $78 million to date.

Since joining the firm, Alex has been involved in cases that have recovered significant compensation for injured clients and their families, including: $37.5 million sexual abuse arbitration award, $35+ million confidential product liability settlement, $24.5 million sexual abuse arbitration award, $17.5 million sexual abuse settlement, $15+ million confidential sexual abuse settlement, $10+ million confidential medical malpractice settlement, $9 million sexual abuse settlement, $4+ million confidential product liability settlement, $3+ million confidential medical malpractice settlement, and $2+ million confidential medical malpractice settlement.

Van Dyke's previous experience gives him a unique perspective that he brings to every case. Before joining Kline & Specter, he honed his skills at Williams & Connolly LLP, consistently ranked among the top defense firms in the nation. This experience gives him an insider's understanding of how sophisticated defendants and their counsel think, prepare and litigate.

He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he earned the Dean's Scholar Prize for constitutional law, contracts, legal research and writing, and patent trial advocacy, one of the most decorated academic records in his class. He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in international law from Georgetown University. Van Dyke is a dedicated advocate who works tirelessly for his clients to get them the best possible result.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Kline & Specter, PC

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A Philadelphia jury found that Monsanto failed to warn that Roundup could cause cancer and awarded John McKivison $2.25 billion. The trial judge later reduced the award to $400 million.

Philadelphia County, PA · 2024Product LiabilityRead the full story →

After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.

Philadelphia, PA (federal) · 2016Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

A Philadelphia jury found the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania liable for the brain injury a newborn suffered when staff delayed a cesarean section, a $182.7 million verdict that grew to a molded judgment of about $207.6 million, the largest medical malpractice award in Pennsylvania history. Kline & Specter argued and won the appeal, where the Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed the full $207.6 million judgment in July 2025.

Philadelphia County, PA · 2025Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

A Philadelphia jury awarded Ernest Caranci $175 million after finding that decades of Roundup use caused his non-Hodgkin lymphoma and that Monsanto failed to warn of the risk. Kline & Specter tried the case, the first Roundup trial in Philadelphia, and the verdict was later upheld on appeal.

Philadelphia County, PA · 2023Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$153 millionVerdict

A federal jury in Nevada found Ford's pickup parking brake defective and held that the company should have warned owners, returning a verdict near $153 million after three-year-old Walter White was killed by a truck that rolled in the family driveway. Shanin Specter of Kline & Specter tried the case.

Reno, NV · 1998Product LiabilityRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

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Education

Harvard Law School
Juris Doctor (magna cum laude)
Georgetown University
Undergraduate

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.