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McLaughlin & Lauricella Lawyers Join Personal Injury Powerhouse Feldman Shepherd Effective January 1, 2024

December 18, 2023

Philadelphia personal injury law firms Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP and McLaughlin & Lauricella, P.C. are pleased to announce that the entire team of attorneys from McLaughlin & Lauricella will join Feldman Shepherd effective January 1, 2024. The move will bolster Feldman Shepherd’s capabilities in its core practice areas of catastrophic personal injury and medical malpractice, and will expand its existing footprint in other complex personal injury matters, including sexual abuse litigation.

Paul A. Lauricella, co-founding partner at McLaughlin & Lauricella, will join Feldman Shepherd along with attorneys Greg Heller, Virginia Graziani Lowe, M.D., Robert J. Snopek, Jr., and Mark A. Schork.

This addition comes on the heels of Feldman Shepherd’s recent hiring of 3 new attorneys. The firm now consists of 25 full-time lawyers, as well as an additional 8 attorneys serving in an Of Counsel role.

About the Attorneys

Paul A. Lauricella is widely recognized as one of the most distinguished plaintiff’s trial lawyers in Pennsylvania. He has secured numerous seven- and eight-figure verdicts and settlements in medical malpractice, catastrophic personal injury, products liability and sexual abuse cases. Paul’s medical malpractice actions have involved a variety of medical specialties, including obstetrics/gynecology, emergency medicine, radiology, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, orthopedic surgery, urology, family practice and oral surgery. Paul has also been at the forefront in pursuing lawsuits on behalf of victims of sexual abuse. His record of success includes confidential settlements for 12 of the victims in the child sexual abuse scandal involving Penn State and assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, as well as a recovery for a victim abused by priests and a Catholic schoolteacher in litigation against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Greg Heller has consistently achieved seven- and eight-figure recoveries for catastrophically injured clients over more than three decades. He maintains a diverse practice portfolio that includes medical malpractice, trucking and highway accidents, highway design, premises liability, dram shop cases, product liability, construction cases, insurance bad faith, and managed care liability cases. Greg represents a number of Pennsylvania local governments in litigation against the companies that make, sell, and distribute prescription opioids, seeking to hold them accountable for their role in the opioid crisis.

Virginia Graziani Lowe, MD is a trial attorney and physician who is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, with specialty interests in spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, and other neurologic disorders. She has represented and successfully advocated for clients in a wide range of medical malpractice claims resulting in multimillion dollar awards. Dr. Lowe handles claims involving birth injuries from cerebral palsy, wrongful death due to medical malpractice, delayed cancer diagnoses, mismanagement of pregnancy resulting in stillbirth, missed spinal epidural abscess resulting in paralysis and death, blindness caused by missed retinopathy, retained foreign objects, adverse drug reactions, and injuries due to defective medical products.

Robert J. Snopek, Jr. represents clients in litigation involving medical malpractice, motor vehicle and trucking accidents, sexual abuse and catastrophic personal injuries. He has an established record of securing significant recoveries, including seven-figure resolutions.

Mark A. Schork concentrates his practice in representing individuals who have suffered from medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injuries and has helped to secure numerous multimillion-dollar recoveries.

“We have long admired the lawyers at McLaughlin & Lauricella. They not only consistently produce headline-grabbing results, but they also have the personalities to fit well within our culture. This was a very easy fit for all of us and we are thrilled to have these folks at our firm,” Feldman Shepherd Co-Managing Partner Mark W. Tanner said.

“I foresee great synergy at Feldman Shepherd. These folks are smart, principled, and share my passion for helping people through difficult times. Bringing our two firms together will exponentially enhance our ability to fight for the rights of our clients,” Lauricella said.

  • Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP attorneys are licensed in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin. In addition, our attorneys practice in other states on a pro hac vice basis. Pro hac vice admission is when a lawyer not licensed in a particular state associates with a lawyer who is licensed in that state and obtains the court’s permission to jointly represent a client in a specific matter.