Dominic Guerrini

Dominic Guerrini’s first introduction to Kline & Specter came in a classroom at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The course was Introduction to Trial Advocacy. The teacher was Shanin Specter. Guerrini’s grade: A+

Not long afterward, Guerrini graduated with honors and, after a stint with a major Philadelphia law firm, the teacher hired his former student. "Dom attained an A+ in my course,” recalls Specter. “It was hard to avoid offering him a job after that performance.”

From 2006 to 2010, Guerrini, having worked on a litany of major successful cases, has been selected for inclusion in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers -- Rising Stars, a publication that named the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state 40 or younger.

In his most recent case, Guerrini was co-counsel with Shanin Specter, in the case of Joseph Blumer, a 43-year-old tow truck driver who was killed when the parking brake in his Ford F-350 tow truck spontaneously disengaged and he was crushed beneath the vehicle. An Allegheny County jury in March 2009 awarded his family $8.75 million. (See Blumer.)

Guerrini in January 2009 won a $3 million settlement for an iron worker who fell from a steel beam at a Philadelphia construction site when his lifeline retractable device malfunctioned. The worker suffered a broken shoulder, nerve damage and brain injury. (See The Twilley Case.)

Only a few months earlier, Guerrini was co-counsel with Tom Kline in a Philadelphia trial that resulted in a $5.5 million jury verdict for the family of an 18-year-old man who was fatally shot while working as a parking lot attendant at Hahnemann University Hospital. (Palmer)

In 2007, Guerrini was co-counsel in the highly publicized civil rights case of a man who was beaten to death while in a Camden County prison. The Seidel Case settled for $4 million, one of the largest-ever settlements in a case of its kind.

In another case involving an ironworker hurt on the job, Guerrini, as lead counsel, negotiated a $1.7 million settlement in 2006 for a Lehigh County employee who suffered a fall when his scissor lift was struck and toppled 20 feet to the ground. (Broadbent.)

Earlier, Guerrini was co-counsel in a case that resulted in an $8.3 million federal jury award for a woman who had been sexually abused by two Philadelphia police officers. (See article.)

In May 2006, Guerrini was co-counsel in a case that resulted in a $5 million judgment for a Philadelphia police officer who was severely injured when a drunken driver plowed into his police car.

Guerrini in late 2004 served as co-counsel in a civil rights case on behalf of a 27-year-old man who suffered brain damage after attempting suicide in jail. The case settled with the City of Philadelphia agreeing to pay $3.5 million for injuries suffered by Christopher Foster, whom police knew had previously tried to commit suicide yet took no special steps to safeguard.

In June 2004, Guerrini worked on litigation that resulted in a federal judge’s ruling that an insurer must cover delay damages and post-judgment interest on a $20.8 million award in a case in which a podiatrist’s foot (see Young) was amputated due to an infection. The judge ultimately awarded $7.2 million in delay damages and interest resulting from the 2001 verdict.

Before joining Kline & Specter in 2003, Guerrini worked as an associate at Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, where his practice involved a broad range of civil litigation.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Rutgers College, where he graduated with highest honors. At Penn Law School, Guerrini was a member of the Moot Court Board and also a Goldstein Scholar, an award given for excellence in employment law scholarship.

He is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar associations and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.