About George Zindel

George Zindel is an attorney at Kline & Specter with a background spanning law, finance, and public service. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, cum laude, and initially served as a judicial law clerk for former Pennsylvania Attorney General Judge Gerald J. Pappert of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Prior to this, he worked as an extern in the Narcotics and Organized Crime Unit of the U.S. Attorney's Office, focusing on money laundering and supervised release conditions.

Before joining Kline & Specter full-time as an attorney, Zindel clerked at the firm for nearly two years while in law school, researching topics including choice of law, statutes of limitation, and the MCARE Act. He also worked as a summer associate at Duane Morris LLP in Philadelphia and as a paralegal at a firm in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

Zindel's pre-law career included work as a FINRA-licensed investment banker and financial analyst at Macquarie Capital in New York City. There, he managed private equity-style investments through the Principal Transactions group, participating in deals including a $200 million government services contractor buyout and a co-investment in a $2 billion take-private of a travel services company.

At La Salle University, where he attended on a full scholarship, Zindel earned bachelor's degrees in finance and political science with highest honors. He was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honors society, received the Finance Department Award as the top graduating senior, and served as three-year president of the mock trial team, during which the program's national ranking increased by 112 positions.

At the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Zindel served as senior editor and received the Outstanding Pro Bono Service Award. He was co-president of Penn Law's trial team and competed as a champion and semifinalist in several competitions. Additionally, he has coached trial teams at Roman Catholic High School and Villanova Charles Widger School of Law, and sits on the Executive Board of Trustees of Roman Catholic High School. He interned as a policy intern for U.S. Senator Pat Toomey's 2016 campaign.

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

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Juris Doctor (cum laude)
La Salle University
Undergraduate

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