About Conor Lamb
Conor Lamb is a former U.S. congressman who served as a prosecutor in the Marines and U.S. Department of Justice. He works from the firm's Philadelphia and Pittsburgh offices. Lamb represented Pennsylvania's 17th Congressional District, winning a special election in 2018 and two subsequent full terms covering Beaver County and parts of Allegheny and Butler counties. He served on House committees addressing Science, Space and Technology; Veterans Affairs; and Transportation and Infrastructure.
In 2022, he pursued a U.S. Senate seat but finished second in the Democratic primary to John Fetterman. Previously, Lamb worked as a prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania following a federal judge clerkship in New York. His office achieved "highly publicized convictions" and led nationally in combating opioid trafficking. He dismantled heroin organizations, securing guilty verdicts against "Uptown" crew members and out-of-state suppliers, plus convictions involving firearms trafficking, violent crimes, and illegal prescription drug distribution.
As a Marine judge advocate (2009-2017, active duty and reserves, retiring as major), Lamb prosecuted general courts-martial for rape and sexual assault, assisting in a high-profile Naval Academy instructor conviction involving sexual misconduct investigation perjury. Lamb earned the James J. Manderino Award for Trial Advocacy at University of Pennsylvania. Military honors include the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with two gold stars, Sea Service Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal, and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. His family includes grandfather Thomas F. Lamb, Pennsylvania Senate Democratic majority leader, and uncle Michael Lamb, Pittsburgh city controller since 2008.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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