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About John L. Lang
John L. Lang focuses his practice on construction site accidents and complex product malfunctions. He represents catastrophically injured individuals and their families. Prior to joining Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, John practiced at a large regional defense firm where he defended construction accident cases, catastrophic motor vehicle collisions, and product defect cases. He represented clients in mediations, arbitrations, and at trial. He gained extensive courtroom experience defending insurance companies and their clients.
John’s prior trial experience allows him and his clients to anticipate how insurance companies defend catastrophic injury cases. John began his career representing victims while in law school. As a member of Drexel’s Appellate Litigation Clinic, he argued before the Pennsylvania Superior Court on behalf of clients whose rights had been infringed or who had been wrongfully convicted. Also at Drexel, where he graduated cum laude , John served as the Executive Research and Production Editor of Drexel’s Law Review.
His work is published in Volume XI of the Drexel Law Review. As a trial advocacy competitor in law school, John participated in Emory University’s Civil Rights and Liberties Moot Court Competition and the John E. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition. He was a finalist at the John E. Gibbons Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition, where he won second place brief. John also won best brief in Drexel’s moot court competition.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
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The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.
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 Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.
A Montgomery County jury awarded the estate of Ellen Gregory Robb $124.26 million in November 2014 against her husband, a former Penn economics professor who killed her in 2006 and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Of the total, $100 million was punitive damages. The proceeds were for the couple's daughter, the estate's beneficiary. The award stood after Robb's post-trial challenge, though collection was limited to his retirement and investment assets.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
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