Top Rated Construction Litigation Attorney in Philadelphia, PA

A highly regarded civil trial attorney, Steven G. Wigrizer is a partner at Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher & Miller. From the firm's main office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he focuses his practice on personal injury and wrongful death litigation, providing representation to clients throughout the greater metropolitan area. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Mr. Wigrizer is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Federal Claims, and he has also been admitted pro hac vice in other jurisdictions around the country.

Mr. Wigrizer's clients are people who have been harmed by the negligence of other parties. The types of cases that he has handled have involved medical malpractice, construction site accidents, premises liability and defective products, and he has been able to obtain millions of dollars in compensation for his clients. Some of Mr. Wigrizer's representative results have included a $6.4 million settlement for a construction worker who suffered a serious brain injury on the job, and he was co-counsel in a lawsuit based on a 2013 building collapse that killed several people and injured others and that resulted in a $227 million settlement after a lengthy trial.

Mr. Wigrizer's successful track record during his distinguished career has caught the attention of his colleagues, and they have awarded him an AV Preeminent* peer review rating through Martindale-Hubbell and a 10.0 "Superb" peer review rating through Avvo. In addition, he has been named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 for several consecutive years. Mr. Wigrizer majored in political science at The Pennsylvania State University, and in 1976, he received a Bachelor of Arts and was inducted into The Phi Beta Kappa Society. His legal education came at Boston University School of Law, and he was awarded his Juris Doctor in 1979.

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