About Jarad Silverstein

Jarad L. Silverstein is a Partner at Wapner Newman and chairs the firm's Medical Malpractice department. He joined the firm in 2017 after spending more than eight years as a medical malpractice defense attorney with Parker McCay P.A. in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where he represented major hospital systems, physicians, and other medical professionals. He earned his Bachelor's degree from The George Washington University in 2004 and his law degree from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware, in 2007, where he served as president and coach of the Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team. He began his career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Karen L. Suter in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County.

His medical malpractice experience spans obstetrics, critical care, trauma, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, anesthesia, urology, and hematology and oncology. He has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star from 2013 through 2022 and as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer from 2023 onward. He was selected to Best Lawyers in America in 2025, and his Medical Malpractice department has received Tier 1 status from Best Lawyers. He also serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the First Judicial District, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Wapner Newman

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

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.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2017Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$45 millionVerdictTop 20 of 2014 · #10

A Philadelphia jury returned a $45 million verdict in favor of Tamara Breeden, a mentally disabled woman who was confined, abused, and robbed of her Social Security benefits for more than a decade by Linda Ann Weston and two associates.

Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas · 2014Premises 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., 2007
The George Washington University
Undergraduate, 2004

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.