Donna Lee Jones focuses her practice on complex medical malpractice, civil rights and other significant civil litigation matters.

Ms. Jones is among a select group of attorneys—including two colleagues at SMBB—to be chosen by her peers as a "Rising Star" in the area of plaintiff medical malpractice in a special Pennsylvania Super Lawyers edition of Philadelphia Magazine. She has extensive experience fighting for the rights of victims of personal injury, including patients seriously injured as a result of medical error, or county prison inmates deprived decent medical care and basic civil rights as American citizens.

Ms. Jones is an honors graduate of Rutgers-Camden College and Rutgers-Camden School of Law in 1993 and 1997 (respectively) and has an LLM in Trial Advocacy from Temple University School of Law. Upon graduating Temple's LLM Program in 2005, Ms. Jones was awarded The Faculty Award, which is given to the one student who best demonstrates outstanding achievement in courtroom presentation and performance. She is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Committed to continuing practice excellence, Ms. Jones is an Adjunct Professor of Law in Temple University's LLM Trial Program, and lectures often on trial techniques. In addition, she serves as a Judge Pro Tempore in Philadelphia County medical malpractice cases.

An advocate within and outside the courtroom, Ms. Jones is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations, and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. She is the Chair of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers' Community Services Committee, and a member of several other committees. She also serves on the Board of The Lawyers' Club of Philadelphia.

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