I will fight for my clients in the courtroom and, as a result, my clients receive the compensation they deserve.
Ara R. Avrigian
Ara Richard Avrigian joined Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky in 1998. He concentrates in medical malpractice liability, motor vehicle accidents, workplace injuries, premises liability, and products liability.
- $9,500,000A pedestrian was fatally injured by a striking vehicle.Read Story
- $7,900,000When the pool of potential jurors filed into Philadelphia Common Pleas ...Read Story
- $6,600,000A jury awarded more than $6.6 million in damages to a woman who sued two ...Read Story
- $6,500,000A construction worker who was paralyzed after falling off scaffolding has ...Read Story
- $3,000,000A Philadelphia jury has awarded $3 million to a 42-year-old former city ...Read Story
- $2,000,000Four trucking industry defendants have agreed to a $2 million settlement ...Read Story
- $1,250,000Through a $1.25 million dollar verdict, a Philadelphia jury sent the ...Read Story
Ara is a 1988 graduate of Moravian College, received his J.D. from Penn State Dickinson School of Law in 1992, and his LL.M. in trial advocacy from Temple University in 2003.
Practice Areas
Ara serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas on medical malpractice cases. Prior to joining the firm, he worked as a medical malpractice defense associate with Wright Young & McGilvery, where he participated in bringing more than 25 malpractice trials to verdict over the course of five years.
Ara has obtained plaintiff’s jury verdicts for injured clients in medical malpractice cases, products liability cases, premises liability cases, and motor vehicle accident cases.
He is a member of the American, Pennsylvania, and Montgomery County Bar Associations, and the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations.
Honors & Awards
- Named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers List (2023-2025)
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the State of New Jersey
Education
- Penn State Dickinson School of Law, J.D., 1992
- Temple University, LL.M., 2003
- Moravian College, 1988
Professional Organizations
- American Bar Association
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Montgomery County Bar Associations
- Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association
- Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association