Shanin Specter

Bio

Shanin Specter is a preeminent American trial lawyer. He is a founding partner of Kline & Specter, one of the leading catastrophic injury firms in the United States.

Specter has obtained more than 200 verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million, including jury verdicts of $153 million against a major automaker and $109 million against a Pennsylvania power company. In all, he has achieved 16 eight or nine figure verdicts, among them news-making cases involving medical malpractice, defective products, medial devices, premises liability, auto accidents and general negligence. He is a member of the Inner Circle of Advocates, whose membership is limited to the top 100 plaintiffs’ attorneys in the United States.

Beyond winning substantial monetary compensation for his clients, many of Specter’s cases have prompted changes that provide a societal benefit, including improvements to vehicle safety, nursing and hospital procedures, the safe operation of police cars, training for the use of CPR at public institutions, and inspections, and installation and maintenance of utility power lines. One case spurred the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission to create a new Electric Safety Division to investigate reported electrical injuries, another helped move the City of Philadelphia to enact an ordinance requiring all fire escapes to be regularly inspected.

Specter earned his undergraduate degree with Honors from Haverford College, his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an LL.M. with First Honors from Cambridge University.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School
  J.D. 1984

• University of Cambridge
  LL.M., International Law 1984

• Haverford College
  B.A., Political Science and History of Art 1980

Selected Scholarship

• How Not to Manage a Common Benefit Fund: Allocating Attorneys' Fees in Vioxx Litigation
  Becker, Charles L., Specter, Shanin, & Kline, Thomas R., Drexel Law Review 2016