About Ara R. Avrigian

I will fight for my clients in the courtroom and, as a result, my clients receive the compensation they deserve. Ara Richard Avrigian joined Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky in 1998. He concentrates in medical malpractice liability, motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, premises liability, and products liability. Ara is a 1988 graduate of Moravian College, received his J.D. from Penn State Dickinson School of Law in 1992, and his LL.M. in trial advocacy from Temple University in 2003.

Ara serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on medical malpractice cases. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a medical malpractice defense associate with Wright Young & McGilvery, where he participated in bringing more than 25 malpractice trials to verdict over the course of five years. Ara has obtained plaintiff's jury verdicts for injured clients in medical malpractice cases, products liability cases, premises liability cases, and motor vehicle accident cases. He is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery County Bar Associations, and the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations.

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Education

Penn State Dickinson School of Law
J.D., 1992
Temple University
Undergraduate, 2003

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Jersey

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