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About Julia Gottlob
Julia P. Gottlob, a partner at Kline & Specter who oversees the firm's Intake Department, brings extensive experience from the business and legal worlds to the firm. Having worked for several years at the corporate level in the hospitality industry before going to law school, Gottlob is focused on making sure potential clients' experiences with the firm are seamless and helpful. On the legal side, Gottlob has worked on a wide variety of matters for both plaintiffs and defendants, giving her a broad understanding of the law and a perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of individual cases.
Gottlob has worked on complex securities class actions, pharmaceutical and automotive class actions, workers' compensation cases, discrimination cases, and alternative dispute resolution. She's also worked with inhouse attorneys and led attorneys on projects, as well as worked on databases. In her time in the hospitality industry, Gottlob worked at the corporate level, assessing sales staff and negotiating rate contracts, as well as coordinating with other departments and building relationships with new and existing clients.
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.
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.
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