Brian D. Kent, a former prosecutor, specializes in representing victims in catastrophic personal injury cases resulting from construction-workplace accidents, as well as product liability and premises liability cases.
 
Mr. Kent has fought for and protected victim’s rights throughout his legal career. In his work in the Sex Crimes Unit as an Assistant District Attorney in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, he fought for the rights of child and adult victims, using and honing his advocacy skills to bring to justice some of Montgomery County's worst sexual offenders. In Commmonwealth of Pennsylvania v. David Hollenbach, he secured a conviction of a child molester after a week-long jury trial that resulted in one of the longest  sentences in county history being imposed for a first time sex offender.

He is a 2000 graduate of the University of Delaware and a 2003 graduate of the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where he also is a May 2008 candidate for an L.L.M. (Masters of Laws) degree in trial advocacy. His law school honors include being a member of the national championship trial team in 2002, during which he won the Outstanding Advocate Award for the competition’s final round; the Victor A. Jaczun Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy; and the Outstanding Advocate Award for Trial Advocacy.

Mr. Kent previously served as a parliamentary aide to Simon Hughes, M.P., in the House of Commons in London, England and also served as a judicial clerk with the Territorial Court of the U.S. Virgin Islands. He now serves as a coach for the Temple University Beasley School of Law national trial team and is a member of the board of directors of the University of Delaware Alumni Association. He is also co-chair of the American Ireland Fund’s Young Leaders of Philadelphia, a charitable organization made up of Irish-Americans dedicated to supporting programs of peace and reconciliation, arts and culture, education and community development throughout the island of Ireland.

He is admitted to practice before the Supreme Courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illinois and is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Philadelphia and Montgomery bar associations. Mr. Kent, who resides in Montgomery County, is also a member of the Montgomery County Inn of Courts, the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and the American and Pennsylvania Association of Justice. Mr. Kent is an avid triathlete in his free time.

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