Joe Dougherty and co-host Frank Ciprero, partner at Pond Lehocky, are joined by trial attorney J.B. Dilsheimer, Partner at Stampone O’Brien Dilsheimer Law.
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Frank N. Ciprero graduated from Dickinson College in 1995 with a B.A. in Anthropology. In 1998, he earned a law degree from The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University. He served as a legal intern for the Pennsylvania Office of the Attorney General in the Medicaid Fraud Control Division. He then became a Senior Associate with a mid-sized defense firm handling Workers’ Compensation and general liability defense litigation in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With over five years of experience in Workers’ Compensation, he then joined a leading regional firm, where he focused his practice exclusively on Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Law.
In June 2010, he joined Pond Lehocky, where he continues to focus his practice on Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Law and protecting the rights of injured workers as a Partner.
Mr. Ciprero has been admitted to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He now specializes exclusively in Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Law, and is certified as a specialist in the practice of Workers’ Compensation Law by the Pennsylvania Bar Association Workers’ Compensation Law Section as authorized by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. He is very active in the community as a member of the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, and Montgomery County Bar Associations. He is a member of both the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association. He has been a guest lecturer at Villanova University School of Law in the area of Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Law.
J.B. Dilsheimer recently joined Stampone O’Brien Dilsheimer Law as a partner and trial attorney. Before that, J.B. practiced most recently with Saltz Mongeluzzi Barrett & Bendesky. J.B. has vast experience handling complex, catastrophic injury cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, as well as other locations around the country.
J.B. concentrates his practice on major, catastrophic injury litigation. He has worked on the settlement and trial of several multi-million dollar cases and has a wide range of experience in cases involving traumatic brain injury, defective products, construction accidents, FELA, premises liability, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, subrogation matters, and commercial litigation. J.B.’s successful verdict in a Monroe County, PA jury trial was reported by The National Law Journal as one of the “Top PA Verdicts of 2010” in the January 2010 edition of Verdict Search National. The trial involved a head-on automobile accident.
J.B. graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University Beasley School of Law in 1992. He was Managing Editor of the Temple Law Review. He graduated magna cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1988. He serves on the Board of the Philadelphia Committee to End Homelessness and does pro-bono work for the Gift of Life, which coordinates organ donation and transplantation in the tri-state area.
Outside of work, J.B. likes biking, photography, yoga, reading, writing, and surfing. Fortuitously, he met firm partner Kevin O’Brien while surfing in Costa Rica. More than anything, J.B. enjoys spending time with his wife and their two young children.