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Personal Injury Attorney

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Eliot Hillel Lewis

Philadelphia personal injury lawyerPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
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phone (215) 569-8866
fax (215) 568-6511
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Eliot Hillel Lewis - Active as a trial lawyer for over 25 years, Eliot brings to his work a remarkable attention to detail together with a strong drive to achieve justice for the injured clients he represents. For example he was once counseled by a former president of the American Trial Lawyers Association that a good trial lawyer would obtain $300,000 and a great trial lawyer $400,000 for a woman who suffered a seriously broken ankle in an auto accident. Eliot and his partner Jerry Pomerantz put on over 20 witnesses and achieved a jury verdict of $943,000 in a federal court in Trenton.

After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, Eliot received his J.D. from the Rutgers Law School in Camden, NJ in 1977. In the beginning of his career Eliot was law clerk for the Honorable Samuel Lehrer, Judge of the Municipal Court of Philadelphia and authored an article on the Law of Preliminary Hearing in the Pennsylvania Bar Quarterly. Jerry and Eliot have practiced together as trial attorneys for many years and are excited to combine forces with super litigator Norman Perlberger.

Eliot has helped produce many six, seven and eight figure verdicts and settlements for his clients. His most famous success was a bicycle product liability verdict of $13,500,000. It was cited in the American Trial Lawyers magazine as a Spotlight Case to be read about by trial lawyers all over America.

Sample Cases:

  • $13,500,000 verdict Common Pleas Philadelphia July 1997, cited as SPOTLIGHT case in ATLA Law Reporter November 1997 - Defectively designed bicycle, pitchover results in quadriplegia. 30 pretrial motions
  • $943,095 verdict U.S. District Court Trenton, New Jersey November 1991- Motor vehicle collision, 50 year old female with broken ankle. Recovered $775,000 despite insurance policy of only $500,000
  • Settlement of breach of contract litigation achieved by winning Eastern District Court jurisdiction against Chicago billion dollar venture capital company.
  • Motor vehicle collision-disputed liability, plaintiff driver had flashing red, defendant flashing yellow - Used testimony by accident reconstruction expert to achieve 50-50 jury verdict on liability and recover total policy
  • Failure to diagnose aortic aneurysm, Wrongful Death and Survival, Experts Emergency Medicine, Vascular Surgeon, Family Medicine, plaintiff -- 52 year old school bus driver settlement $675,000
  • Obstetrical mismanagement with fetal hypoxia, cerebral palsy and mental retardation settlement $1 million present value into structure valued at approximately $7 million over lifetime.
  • False arrest/False imprisonment Acme security accused client of stealing $1.49 bottle of paprika - jury trial verdict $250,000
  • Failure to diagnose endocarditis, aortic valve replacement in 22 year old - settlement at trial doorstep $770,000
  • Overturned Zoning Board denial of Special Exception in Commonwealth Court
  • Argued before Pennsylvania Supreme Court on creation of cause of action for HIV misdiagnosis

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