About David Cuneo
An attorney for nearly four decades, David K. Cuneo has successfully litigated matters of medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, DUI/DWI, bicycle accidents and other personal injury matters. "Our aim is to help each client secure the maximum possible compensation after an accident to facilitate the fullest recovery," says Cuneo. Cuneo earned the designation as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney by the New Jersey Supreme Court. He is admitted to practice law in New Jersey and before the U.S. District Court of New Jersey, the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.
He is a partner with Kline & Specter and Cuneo & Leonetti LLC, in Collingswood, N.J. Earlier in his career, Cuneo won several of the then-largest verdicts in Burlington and Camden counties, including a $1.2 million verdict in a complex product liability claim and a $2.2 million award in a delayed diagnosis cancer case. He continues to obtain large verdicts and settlements for his clients and maintains an active trial schedule primarily in New Jersey Superior Court.
Cuneo earned his bachelor's degree from St. Joseph's University, where is a member of the school's Track and Field Hall of Fame, then earned his law degree from Rutgers University. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to the Hon. David G. Eynon, J.S.C. Cuneo, who has been selected to New Jersey Super Lawyers, the independent survey that names the best attorneys in the state, is a member of the American Trial Lawyers Association of New Jersey and the Camden County Bar Association.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Kline & Specter, PC
These results are credited to Kline & Specter, PC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
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.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
