About Brian Strauss

Brian L. Strauss, Esq. is an AV Preeminent-rated trial attorney with over 30 years of litigation experience at The Rothenberg Law Firm. He specializes in nursing home abuse and neglect, medical malpractice, motor vehicle negligence, product liability, and premises liability matters. He was lead trial attorney in a seminal Pennsylvania case confirming corporate negligence and punitive damages in nursing home cases. Prior roles include trial attorney in the Philadelphia District Attorney's Homicide Unit and civil counsel for the Fraternal Order of Police.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers

These results are credited to The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident And Injury Lawyers. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$3.15 millionVerdict

A Philadelphia jury found AMC 100 percent at fault after a woman in her late 70s fractured her hip tripping in a darkened movie auditorium in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, awarding $3,146,500 following a five-day trial.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas (Judge Sean Kennedy) · 2020Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$700,000

A 16-year-old was struck in the left eye by a piece of metal while walking under a Safway Steel Products scaffold in Brooklyn in 1999, permanently damaging his retina. Safway's answer was struck after two years of ignoring discovery orders, and a Kings County inquest produced a $1.05 million judgment in 2005. The Appellate Division reduced it to $700,000 in 2007, and the Court of Appeals affirmed in 2008.

Supreme Court, Kings County, Brooklyn, New York · 2005Premises LiabilityRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Loyola Law School
J.D., 1977
Temple University
Undergraduate, 1974

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Jersey
State Bar of New York
State Bar of West Virginia
State Bar of U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
State Bar of U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
State Bar of U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
State Bar of U.S. District Court Northern District of West Virginia
American Association for Justice
Pennsylvania Bar Association
New Jersey Bar Association
Philadelphia Bar Association

Awards & recognition

AV Preeminent (Martindale-Hubbell)
Best Lawyers of America
National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers
National Trial Lawyers Top 10 Nursing Home Trial Lawyers
Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Million Dollar Advocates Forum

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Philadelphia firms

Kline & Specter, PC
Kline & Specter, PC
$4.85 Billion Vioxx MDL Settlement for Heart-Attack and Stroke Victims
Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
$1.02 billion · Champlain Towers Collapse: $1.021 Billion for 98 Victims in Under a Year
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig
$160 million · U-Haul Pays $160 Million After Overfilled Propane Tank Kills Food Truck Owner and Her Daughter
Ross Feller Casey
Ross Feller Casey
$85 Million Verdict for Penn Med Student Who Fell 18 Feet Into Open Center City Manhole
Anapol Weiss
Anapol Weiss
$1.6 billion · 104 Women Win $1.6 Billion Against Long Island Pediatrician Stuart Copperman

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