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Mark K. Altemose

Mark K. Altemose

Location:
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Phone:
610-258-0111
610-295-5321
888-854-6895
Fax:
610-332-2722
Email:
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Mark Altemose is a native of Pen Argyl where he attended Pen Argyl High School.  He attended college at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he graduated Cum Laude with Honors in Economics.  He then attended Villanova University School of Law.  He is a Shareholder of the law firm of Cohen & Feeley, P.C., 2851 Bagylos Circle, Bethlehem, PA  18020; phone:  (610) 625-2100; email: maltemose@cohenfeeley.com

During his legal career, Mark has limited his practice to personal injury and construction litigation.  He has extensive expertise handling serious injury and death cases involving automobile, trucking and motorcycle negligence; products liability; medical malpractice; pharmaceutical malpractice; construction accidents; gas and chemical exposure and explosion accidents; dog bites; and slips and falls.  He has acted as a lead counsel in many well known Lehigh Valley catastrophic injury and death cases including most recently the Charles Cullen serial murder cases, the DePUY ASR defective hip implant litigation, the Allentown natural gas explosion and the underground propane tank explosion in Bushkill Township.   He has achieved many multi-million dollar results for his clients, several exceeding $10 million, including verdicts of $95 million, $4.36 million and $1.5 million.   In 2010 he was recognized by the National Law Journal and VerdictSearch for recovering the 20th largest verdict in the United States in 2010.

Mark is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization with membership limited to attorneys who have won verdicts or settlements equal to or exceeding $1 million.   He has been an invited lecturer to Bar Associations and other lawyers groups to discuss the trial strategy and tactics that have enabled him to win large verdicts and settlements for his clients.    He also regularly teaches continuing legal education courses to fellow attorneys regarding personal injury litigation and is often selected by Plaintiff and Defense attorneys as an independent mediator and arbitrator in complex personal injury cases.

Mark is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a Pennsylvania Supreme Court Accredited Agency.  He has been elected by his peers in 2010 as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the State of Pennsylvania.  He has also has also been elected by his peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for the past three years, an award given to the top 5% of all attorneys in the State.

In 1998, he was elected to Who’s Who in American Law.  Also in 1998, he was elected to the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and served on the Board until 2007.  In 1999 he was appointed to the Leadership Council of the New Lawyer Committee of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice; in 2000 he was appointed to Education Committee and in 2001 he was one of only 10 attorneys in the State asked to serve as a founding member and director of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice Auto Negligence Section.   Also, in 2001 Mark was elected as a member of America’s Registry of Outstanding Professionals.  He was elected to Who’s Who in America in 2002.

Mark served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Lehigh County Bar Association from 2001 to 2006 and spent 10 years as Co-chairman of the Lehigh County Bar Association Law Day Committee.  He received the Association’s Service Award in 1998.

Mark is admitted to practice law in the Courts of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of New Jersey, the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mark is an active member of the American Bar Association, Lehigh County Bar Association, Northampton County Bar Association, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Donald E. Wieand Barristers’ Inn, an organization dedicated to professionalism in law and comprised of a select group of attorneys and judges.   He was elected Secretary/Treasurer of the Inn in 2007 and Counselor to the Inn in 2011.  He will be the next President of the Inn.

Areas of Practice

  • 100% Plaintiff Personal Injury

Litigation Percentage

  • 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Certified Legal Specialties

  • Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy, PA Supreme Court Accredited Agency, 2004

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 1990
  • New Jersey, 1991
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1991
  • U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1991
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 1991

Education

  • Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania
    • J.D. - 1990
  • Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania
    • A.B. (Cum Laude) - 1987
    • Honors: With Honors
    • Major: Economics

Classes/Seminars

  • "'I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up': The Status of the Assumption of the Risk Defense in Pennsylvania", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, March 10, 1999
  • "Hot Topics in Auto Negligence Law", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, June 16, 2000 - June 15, 2000
  • "Auto Law Strategies to Win: Bringing Subrogation Defenses into Focus", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Radisson Hotel, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer's Association, December 6, 2000
  • Organizer and Participant in Mock Trial "Have a Heart", Sacred Heart School, Bethlehem, PA, February 9, 2001
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, June 6, 2001
  • "Auto Law Practice Tips: How to Recognize the Bad Case and How to increase the Bottom Line", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 13, 2001
  • "Analysis of the Swahl v. Biehl case: How I obtained a $300,000 verdict for a case involving injuries consisting of an aggravation of degenerative disc disease", Seminar, Bucks County Bar Association Litigation Section, July 10, 2002
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Third Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 14, 2002
  • "Auto Law Practice Tips: Subrogation in Auto Cases", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Holiday inn, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 18, 2002
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Fourth Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 13, 2003
  • "New Twists in Preparing, Settling and Trying the Auto Case", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 9, 2003
  • "Hot Issues in UM and UIM - Start to Finish: The Trial of the UM/UIM Case", CLE Seminar 2 CLE Credits, Hershey Hotel, Hershey, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, July 10, 2004
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Fifth Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 18, 2004
  • "Auto Law Strategies: Subrogation in Auto Cases", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 14, 2004
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Sixth Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, December 8, 2005
  • "Auto Law Practice Tips", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Holiday Inn, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 13, 2005
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Seventh Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 9, 2006
  • "Auto Law Strategies", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Best Western Hotel, Bethlehem, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, December 7, 2006
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: First Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Northampton County Bar Association, December 20, 2006
  • "Premises Liability", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Monroe County Bar Association, Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, April 12, 2007
  • 'Premises Liability", CLE Seminar, 4 CLE Credits, Monroe County Bar Association, Stroudsburg, PA, Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, April 12, 2007
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Second Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Northampton County Bar Association, August 16, 2007
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Ninth Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 28, 2007
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Third Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Northampton County Bar Association, August 18, 2008
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Tenth Annual Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 19, 2008
  • "Medical Malpractice: The Perspective of the Plaintiff's Bench", CME Seminar, Grand Rounds, Emergency Room Residents at St. Luke's Hospital, May 7, 2009
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Yearly Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Northampton County Bar Association, August 14, 2009
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Yearly Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Lehigh County Bar Association, August 28, 2009
  • "Important New Developments in Auto Negligence Law: Yearly Update", CLE Seminar, 1 CLE Credit, Monroe County Bar Association, August 29, 2009

Honors and Awards

  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, 2005 - Present
  • Member, Who's Who in American Law, 1998 - Present
  • America's Registry of Outstanding Professionals, 2001 - Present
  • Member, Who's Who in America, 2002 - Present
  • Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2003 - Present
  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyers-Rising Stars, 2005 - Present

Professional Associations and Memberships

  • Pennsylvania Association for Justice, Member, Board of Governors, 1998 - 2007
  • Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee 2.04, Former Chairman
  • Donald Wieand American Inn of Court, Treasurer/Secretary, 2007 - Present
  • American Association for Justice, Member, 1991 - Present
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
  • Lehigh County Bar Association, Member, 1991 - Present
  • Northampton County Bar Association, Member, 1991 - Present
  • Lehigh County Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2001 - 2006
  • Pennsylvania Association for Justice, 1991 - Present
  • Donald Wieand American Inn of Court, 1991 - Present

Past Employment Positions

  • Knafo Law Offices, Junior Partner, 1994 - 2006

Fraternities/Sororities

  • Phi Gamma Delta
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At Cohen, Feeley, Altemose, Margolis & Rambo, we represent clients from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and throughout the surrounding areas, including the cities of Bethlehem, Allentown, Easton, Stroudsburg, Emmaus, Brodhead, Macungie, Whitehall, Northampton, Hellertown, Quakertown, Nazareth, Fogelsville, Schnecksville, Bath, Wind Gap, Philipsburg, Clinton, Stewartsville, Alpha, and Pen Argyl; Northampton County, Lehigh County, Carbon County and Monroe County, and throughout Lehigh Valley, Poconos Mountains, Saucon Valley and Eastern Pennsylvania, as well as Warren County, New Jersey.

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