Philip M. Hof, Esq.

• Philip M. Hof has more than 40 years of litigation experience in both insurance defense and plaintiff practices.  He has successfully handled over 750 mediations and arbitrations in-person or virtually.  He is currently focusing his ADR practice on mediations.
• Mr. Hof is experienced in mediations and arbitrations that include:
  • Personal Injury
  • Professional Negligence, medical and legal
  • Third Party and UM/UIM, Motor Vehicle Injury
  • Liquor Liability
  • Animal Attack
  • Products Liability
  • Premises Liability
  • Insurance Bad Faith claims
• Mr. Hof’s litigation career began as a judicial law clerk.
• Phil presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s ADR Committee Lunch and Learn on  Tried and True Tips to Better Litigate and Defend Nursing Home Arbitrations
• He serves as a mediator for some of Pennsylvania’s largest defense firms and busiest plaintiffs’ firms.
• His medical and hospital professional negligence ADR work includes Mcare-approved binding arbitration and mediation.
• Upon request of the Philadelphia Court, Mr. Hof serves the court as a judge pro tem in the Medical Malpractice Program.
• He has an active mediation practice in Northampton, Lehigh and the surrounding and northern (NEPA) counties, as well as in Philadelphia and the federal court, Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania.
• Mr. Hof is a past president of the Northampton County Bar Association.
• He retains an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbel.
• Phil is a Past-President of the Barristers Inn of Court of Lehigh County.
• Nearly every year since 2010, he was rated by Super Lawyers magazine to be among Pennsylvania’s Top 100 Lawyers.
• Since 2014, he has been voted by Best Lawyer Magazine as a Best Lawyer for Mediation, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Law in the Allentown area. As well as Lawyer of the Year Designation in 2019 in Personal Injury Litigation.
• Mr. Hof was voted Best Individual Mediator in The Legal Intelligencer’s Best of 2014 and Best of 2020  ; Best of 2021 surveys.
• Mr. Hof is also certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a Senior Hearing Committee Member serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for District II.
• He is a member of the ADR Committee of Northampton County.
• Mr. Hof has published articles and lectured on mediation and insurance law.
• Mr. Hof is an approved arbitrator and mediator of the Federal Eastern District Court.