Kline & Specter, PC
1525 Locust St., 19th Fl.
Philadelphia, PA 19102
(215) 772-1000
tom.kline@klinespecter.comwww.klinespecter.comA founding partner of Kline & Specter, P.C., along with Shanin Specter, Tom Kline is one of Americas most respected and influential lawyers. His many groundbreaking cases have helped shape the law and have resulted in corporate, institutional and governmental change and justice for his clients.
Mr. Kline has been selected every year as the attorney ranked first among 65,000 active Pennsylvania lawyers by Super Lawyers since its inception in 2004. Forbes has included Mr. Kline as one of the top 100 lawyers among over 1.3 million active lawyers in America. He is the past president of the Inner Circle of Advocates, which
The Washington Post described as a select group of 100 of the nations most celebrated trial lawyers.
Mr. Kline achieved many landmark jury verdicts in product liability and medical malpractice dating back to the 1980s with seven-eight-nine and ten figure jury verdicts in each of five decades. He achieved jury verdicts of $8 billion and $2.25 billion in individual plaintiffs trials involving injuries caused by defective prescription medication and a dangerous pesticide.
Mr. Klines work in the Penn State/Sandusky scandal and in the Piazza fraternity hazing tragedy gained national attention and is exemplary of the impact of his public advocacy. In the multi-billion national Vioxx litigation, Mr. Kline was described by
The Wall Street Journal as a key player. He was the Chair of the Plaintiffs Management Committee of the Amtrak 188 Derailment litigation resulting in a global resolution of $265 million.
A graduate and recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award of Albright College, Mr. Kline earned his M.A. from Lehigh University and his J.D. from Duquesne Kline School of Law of Duquesne University where he has received the Distinguished Student and Distinguished Alumnus awards. Mr. Kline clerked for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Pomeroy.
The Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University was named in 2014, also establishing the Thomas R. Kline Institute for Trial Advocacy. In 2017, the Thomas R. Kline Center for Judicial Education was established at Duquesne University School of Law. In 2022, Duquesne University named its law school the Thomas R. Kline School of Law.
Mr. Kline has been described as the consummate trial lawyer of his generation.
