David L. Kwass

David L. Kwass handles cases involving crane and aerial lift accidents, equipment tip overs, guardrail failures, automobile crashworthiness claims, electrical contacts, workplace falls, recreational products, and liquor liability.

Dave served as Chair of the State Civil Procedural Rules Committee. An active member of the American Association for Justice, Dave is a past Chair of the Product Liability Section, and currently serves as Chair of the Crane and Aerial Lift Litigation Group and Co-Chair of the Guardrail Litigation Group. His passion for workplace safety and safe product design has resulted in nearly 150 separate verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 million. Since 2012, he has been recognized each year as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer. Dave’s courtroom advocacy has earned multiple seven-figure verdicts for his clients, including a $19.1 million award in June 2021. American Lawyer Media recognized this verdict as the largest in Pennsylvania for 2021.

Daves is a 1987 graduate of Haverford College, receiving a B.A. with honors. He earned a master’s degree from Georgetown University (1989), a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1992, and in 2002, a master’s degree with honors in Trial Advocacy from the Temple University School of Law. He continues his association with Temple’s School of Law as an Adjunct Professor of Law in the ITAP Program, teaching advanced Civil Procedure, and lecturing in the LLM Program on various trial advocacy topics. He has mentored Temple’s trial teams on construction and product liability cases and served as the Coach of the Strawberry Mansion High School Mock Trial Team.

Dave is admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, and the Third, Fourth and Seventh Circuit Courts of Appeals. He is an active member of the American and Pennsylvania Associations for Justice, and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Away from work, he is the principal owner of the Tria cafes in Center City, Philadelphia, where wine, cheese and beer are the focus.