About Jennifer Russell

Jennifer L. Russell has devoted 23 years as a plaintiff's attorney to representing those catastrophically injured by medical negligence, with a particular focus on obstetrical and neonatal malpractice and birth injuries. She began her legal career at Pepper Hamilton, LLP, representing corporate clients in complex civil litigation including pharmaceutical, mass tort, toxic exposure, and product liability matters. She served as liaison counsel for pharmaceutical defendants in the fen-phen diet drug litigation. In 2001, she redirected her practice to representing plaintiffs, contributing to seven-figure verdicts and settlements at Litvin, Blumberg, Matusow & Young and later at Kline & Specter before joining Ross Feller Casey.

At the firm, she has assisted the founding partners in securing substantial settlements for infants, children, and teens who suffered permanent neurological and physical injuries from delays in delivery and improper prenatal management. Most recently, she assisted Casey in securing the $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital, a Pennsylvania record as the largest reported medical malpractice settlement in state history. Russell graduated maxima cum laude from La Salle University in 1990 and received her law degree magna cum laude in 1996 from Temple University School of Law. She is licensed and admitted to practice in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and is a member of the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the American Association for Justice.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Ross Feller Casey

These results are credited to Ross Feller Casey. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

A Philadelphia jury awarded $85 million to a University of Pennsylvania medical student left disabled after falling 18 feet into an open Trigen Energy manhole at 19th and Walnut Streets, the largest personal injury verdict in the United States for 2008.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2008Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$59.7 millionSettlementTop 20 of 2013 · #6

Joel Feller and Matt Casey of Ross Feller Casey represented seven of the 26 survivors who reached a global civil settlement with Penn State University totaling $59.7 million, the largest single-firm contingent in the proceedings.

Penn State University / federal and state civil proceedings · 2013Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$44.1 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2016 · #14

A Philadelphia jury awarded Andrea Tate $44.1 million after the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania stopped monitoring her blood-clotting levels mid-treatment, allowing heparin to build to a dangerous concentration that caused a massive brain hemorrhage following routine tumor surgery.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$32.5 millionSettlement

Ross Feller Casey secured a $32.5 million settlement against Reading Hospital after its labor and delivery team failed to recognize signs of intra-amniotic infection and delayed a C-section, leaving a boy born in 2018 with permanent hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$23.87 millionVerdict

A York County jury awarded James Spangler a record $23.87 million after neurosurgeon Dr. Joseph Krzeminski inserted a screw into his spinal cord during a routine back procedure at WellSpan York Hospital and kept operating despite active monitoring alarms signaling catastrophic nerve damage.

York County Court of Common Pleas, PA · 2024Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Temple University School of Law
J.D., 1996
La Salle University
Undergraduate, 1990

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Jersey

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