John F. Kent, Esq.

• Attorney Kent is an excellent mediator because of his fair minded approach to cases, his personality, which allows him to communicate with both sides in a respectful and approach oriented way as well as his legal acumen.
• Attorney Kent is a seasoned trial attorney who has handled all levels of insurance defense following his tenure as an Assistant District Attorney in Philadelphia.
• He has attained an AV peer rating in Martindale Hubbell since 1988.
• John has tried to verdict a variety of cases including asbestos, benzene-leukemia, medical malpractice, products liability, construction accidents and general negligence. He has served as national counsel for three corporations involved in the latex glove litigation and to date he has represented the only distributor defendant to secure a winning verdict following nine weeks of trial in New Hampshire.
• Areas of expertise include:
  • Constructions Accidents
  • General Accident Litigation
  • Insurance Defense
  • Life Sciences
  • Medical Device Litigation
  • Medical Malpractice
  • Products Liability Litigation
  • Toxic Tort
• John’s Alternative Dispute Resolution expertise includes numerous appointments as an arbitrator/mediator in private proceedings as well as a Judge Pro Tem in the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County.
• In addition to trying cases in various jurisdictions at the state and federal levels, John has lectured on litigation issues to a number of insurance carriers and defense organizations, including the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and has served as an instructor of criminal law at Temple University. John has been retained as defense counsel for national and international medical device and health sciences companies and has served as National Counsel and Regional Counsel to a number of medical device and manufacturing companies.
• He is a SuperLawyer since 2004.

Bar Admissions:

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals

Education:

• LaSalle University, B.S., 1972
• Widener University School of Law, Cum Laude, J.D., 1977