Donna Lee Jones focuses her practice on complex medical malpractice, civil rights and other significant civil litigation matters. She has extensive experience fighting for the rights of victims of personal injury, including patients seriously injured as a result of medical error, and individuals deprived of their civil rights. Ms. Jones was part of the team of attorneys who secured a $20 Million Dollar settlement in the bad faith case of Tuski v. Princeton Insurance Company. In February of 2008, she obtained a $12 Million Dollar verdict in Philadelphia County in the delay in diagnosis of breast cancer case of Sutherlin v. Fox Chase Cancer Center, et al, and in July of 2009, she obtained a $4 Million Dollar verdict in the premises liability case of Landi v. SPARC.

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

M. Jones is an honors graduate of Rutgers Camden College and Rutgers Camden School of Law, and has a 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 Advocacy Program, and lectures regularly on trial techniques. In addition, she serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in medical malpractice cases.

An advocate within and outside the courtroom, Ms. Jones serves on the Board of Governors for the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, and Co-Chairs the Rules and Procedure Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association.

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