Robert J. Mongeluzzi

Robert J. Mongeluzzi is widely considered one of the leading personal injury attorneys in the United States. A co-founder of The Law Firm of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky PC, based in Philadelphia, Bob holds almost every personal injury record in Pennsylvania history, including largest single-plaintiff personal injury verdict ($124.4 million), largest individual settlement ($70 million), largest multi-plaintiff settlement ($227 million), the largest workplace injury verdict, automobile verdict and dram shop verdict ($75.6 million), and the largest settlement of a wrongful death case in Philadelphia County history ($17 million). He also holds the national record for the largest construction settlement ($101 million) and the largest railroad accident ($265 million). He has achieved over 400 cases with verdicts or settlements of $1 million or more, over 30 cases with verdicts or settlements of $10 million or more, and seven cases with verdicts or settlements of $100 million or more. He is widely regarded as the top construction accident attorney in America, and one of the nation’s leaders in litigating mass transportation disasters, from a nine-figure recovery in the Amtrak Train 188 Derailment, to $154 million recovery in another mass transportation disaster.

Bob was inducted into the National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame in 2018, was awarded the Legal Intelligencer Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 and was the 2019 Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association Michael A. Musmanno Award recipient.  He has been named one of the 500 Best Attorneys in America and Philadelphia’s Litigator of the Year.  Bob obtained his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1978, and his Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law in 1981.  He also holds an LL.M. in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Bob is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the District of New Jersey, the Southern District of New York, the Eastern District of New York, the Northern District of Illinois, the Western District of Missouri, the District of South Carolina, the Northern District of West Virginia, the District of the Virgin Islands, the Northern District of Florida, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mr. Mongeluzzi is a past president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, a former member of the board of governors of the American Association for Justice, and founder of AAJ’s Electrical Accident and Crane And Aerial Lift Litigation Groups.   He is held in high regard by his fellow attorneys, and is AV Preeminent* rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

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