About Michael Dorsey

Trial Attorney at The Rothenberg Law Firm Accident and Injury Lawyers, joined the firm in 2015. Veteran of dozens of jury trials. Began career representing the City of Philadelphia as an Assistant City Solicitor, defending accident cases filed against the City and prosecuting child abuse claims for the Department of Human Services. Practice focuses on personal injury including auto accidents, premises liability, construction-related accidents, and defective products.

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

Widener University School of Law
J.D., 1997
Saint Joseph's University
Undergraduate, 1994

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania, admitted 1997
State Bar of New Jersey, admitted 1997
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
State Bar of U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey

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$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.