Donna Lee Jones

Donna Lee Jones is a personal injury lawyer who focuses on complex medical malpractice cases, civil rights cases and other significant civil litigation matters in Pennsylvania.

Ms. Jones has secured numerous multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts for Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky clients, including:

• $12 million verdict for a woman whose breast cancer should have been diagnosed long before it became terminal. (($12 Mil. Jury Award in Breast Cancer Case - Sutherlin)
• $4 million verdict for a female Philadelphia police officer injured when a staircase collapsed during a foot chase (Stair Collapse Case Ends in $4 Mil. Verdict - Landi).

Honors

The Legal Intelligencer and Pennsylvania Law Weekly in 2008 named Ms. Jones as one of the Top 25 Women Attorneys in Pennsylvania.

Education, Training and Experience

Ms. Jones is an honors graduate of Rutgers University-Camden and earned her. law degree, with honors, from the Rutgers School of Law-Camden (1997). She is also a graduate of the nationally ranked LL.M. (Master's of Law) in Trial Advocacy program at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. Based on her outstanding performance, at graduation she received the Faculty Award as her class's outstanding trial lawyer. She is now an adjunct professor of law with the Temple Master's of Law program and lectures regularly on trial techniques.

Ms. Jones also serves as a judge pro tempore, or temporary judge, for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas.

Professional Service

Ms. Jones' service to the legal profession includes:

• Board of Governors, Pennsylvania Association for Justice
• Board of Directors, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
• Co-Chair, Rules and Procedure Committee, Philadelphia Bar Association
• Board of Directors, The Lawyers Club of Philadelphia