Cases I Handle
Admission, Education, Awards
Mark Altemose is the CEO and Managing Partner of Cohen, Feeley, Altemose & Rambo, P.C. He focuses his legal practice on personal injury and construction litigation. Mark has extensive experience handling serious injury and death cases involving automobile, trucking and motorcycle accidents, medical malpractice, pharmaceutical malpractice, construction accidents, gas and chemical exposure and explosion accidents, product liability, dog bites, mass torts, and slips and falls.
Mark has acted as a lead counsel in many well-known Lehigh Valley catastrophic injury and death cases including 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 verdicts and settlements for his clients, several exceeding $10 million, with verdicts of $95 million, $4.36 million and $1.5 million, and a multiple plaintiff settlement of $20 million.
Mark regularly lectures and teaches continuing legal education courses about personal injury litigation. He is often selected by plaintiff and defense attorneys as an independent mediator and arbitrator in complex personal injury cases.
"I attribute much of my success as a trial lawyer to growing up and working in the Lehigh Valley, where I learned the values of hard work, honor, and respect for others."
Mark served on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice for almost a decade. 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. Mark is a member of 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 was elected President of the Inn in 2013 and served a two-year term.
Mark was born and raised in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania, a small town located in the northern Lehigh Valley. He helped pay his way through college and law school by doing construction and manufacturing work, including working one summer in a local slate quarry making roofing slate and slate chalkboards. Mark still enjoys construction work as a hobby, completing projects such as an addition to his home.
When he graduated from law school, Mark knew he wanted to return to the Lehigh Valley to give back to the community where he was raised, to fight for the rights of the good, hard working people of this community, and to raise his family with the same values he was taught. Mark and his wife, Jennifer, live in Lower Saucon Township with their three wonderful daughters, Rachel, Meghan and Abigail.
Overview
Admissions
Pennsylvania, 1990
New Jersey, 1991
United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1990
Third Circuit Court of Appeals, 1991
United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1991
United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2002
Education
Villanova University School of Law, J.D., 1990
Lafayette College, B.A., cum laude, 1987
Pen Argyl High School, 1983
Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
Lehigh County Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Northampton County Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Pennsylvania Association for Justice
Donald E. Wieand Barristers’ Inn
Awards And Honors
Member of Hearing Committee 2.04 of the Disciplinary Board of the
