Robert W. Zimmerman

Robert “Bob” Zimmerman represents catastrophically injured victims of defective products and in workplace and construction accidents throughout the country. In addition to his admission in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, he has gained national recognition for his representation of the seriously injured, and has been asked to handle cases in courts in Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Washington, and Wisconsin. He has successfully handled high-profile cases against national and international defendants and has secured hundreds of millions of dollars in recoveries for his clients.

Bob holds a law degree from the Villanova University School of Law (2008), where he served a judicial externship in the Civil Division of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and was a member of various legal interest groups. While in law school, as a member of Villanova’s Civil Justice Clinic, he was authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to represent clients who could not afford attorneys. Bob clerked for one of Philadelphia’s major civil defense litigation firms before joining Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky in the summer of 2007.

In May 2011, Bob graduated from the nationally ranked LL.M. (Master’s of Law) in Trial Advocacy Program at the Temple University Beasley School of Law. He serves as a Lecturer and Judge Instructor for the program.

Bob is a leader among the legal profession nationally. In 2025, he was named a national co-chair of the American Association for Justice’s Firearms Litigation Group and is on the National Product Liability Section’s leadership committee. He is a board member of both the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (PTLA) and Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ). He is on the Cabinet of the PTLA and is a member of the PAJ’s Executive Committee, tasked with decision making responsibilities for the organization. Bob previously was elected to the Philadelphia Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Divisions Executive Committee, where he served a three-year term and was Treasurer of the Executive Committee in 2015. He is a past President of the Future Leaders Section of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.

Bob has lectured throughout the country and presented numerous times at legal conferences and law schools, and to local, statewide, and national audiences. He was the co-chair of the 2018 Philadelphia Bar Association’s Bench Bar, an annual event that offers continuing legal education to lawyers and Judges.

Bob was raised in Northeast Philadelphia and currently resides in Center City Philadelphia.