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Shanin
Specter

Professor of Practice

  • Office 372-00
  • Email Address specters@uchastings.edu
  • Telephone (415) 565-4727

Biography

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.

Expertise

  • Evidence
  • Tort Law

Education

  1. University of Pennsylvania Law School 1984

    J.D.

  2. University of Cambridge 1984

    LL.M., International Law

  3. Haverford College 1980

    B.A., Political Science and History of Art

Selected Scholarship

  1. How Not to Manage a Common Benefit Fund: Allocating Attorneys' Fees in Vioxx Litigation 2016

    Drexel Law Review

Courses

  1. Torts
  2. How to Ask a Question
  3. Evidence

Links

  1. Kline & Specter, PC

Related News

specter on cnn talking trump cohen

Professor Shanin Specter on CNN to Discuss Michael Cohen Tape

07/31/18
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