About Julianna Burdo

Julianna Merback Burdo is a Partner at Wapner Newman with over thirty-five years of legal experience in personal injury and medical malpractice work. She earned her Bachelor's degree in Finance, Real Estate and Business Administration from Temple University in 1989 and her law degree from Widener University School of Law in 1999. She is licensed in Pennsylvania and New Jersey and has been admitted pro hac vice in New York and Illinois. Her career began as a plaintiff's personal injury paralegal at Fox Rothschild, where she attended law school while working and became the firm's first staff member turned associate attorney upon graduation.

She later joined Kline and Specter, then moved to Bucks County where she chaired the Medical Malpractice Department at Haggerty, Goldberg, Schleifer and Kupersmith through 2018. She subsequently opened her own firm, Burdo Law Firm, before joining Wapner Newman. Her practice focuses on dental malpractice, cardiology cases, surgical and post-operative errors, delayed cancer diagnosis, emergency room and paramedic malpractice, obstetrical malpractice, gynecology, maternal fetal medicine, and breast imaging. She is recognized as one of very few malpractice lawyers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey who consistently handles dental malpractice cases.

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., 1999
Temple University
Undergraduate, 1989

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Pennsylvania
State Bar of New Jersey

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Kline & Specter, PC
$4.85 Billion Vioxx MDL Settlement for Heart-Attack and Stroke Victims
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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.