Braden R. Lepisto - Philadelphia, PA

Overview

Braden R. Lepisto was a top student and athlete who worked in law offices in California and Washington, D.C., before joining Kline & Specter. He is currently handling personal injury and whistleblower litigation.

The recent University of Pennsylvania Law School graduate worked summers in impressive law offices, first as a law clerk assisting the supervising attorney in the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, where he devised a manual for defending public entity liability claims.

Lepisto (pronounced LEP-ĭs-tō) also worked as a summer associate with the 1,000-lawyer international law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, in Washington, where he performed legal research, drafted discovery documents and created a presentation explaining the complexities of shareholder derivative actions which was published in the Securities Litigation Report.

Lepisto began his law school career at Pepperdine University, where he won the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for earning the top grade in first year Torts. He was a member of Phi Alpha Delta, the international legal fraternity, and also was invited to join the Pepperdine Law Review and the School of Law Honor Board.

Lepisto transferred and graduated from Penn Law, where he was senior editor for university's Journal of Business Law. He was also a board member of the Employee Advocacy Project, where he managed unemployment compensation cases for clients. (He also earned an A+ in the course "Practice of Law," taught by his future employer, Shanin Specter.)

Lepisto did his undergraduate work at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.S. in economics. At Penn, he also ran track (400 hurdles) and was a football star, playing varsity all four years and twice earning All-Ivy League honors as a wide receiver. Lepisto finished his football career listed on Penn's Top 10 all-time list for receptions and receiving yards, with 102 catches (6th best) and 1,283 yards (8th).

He is an alumni interviewer for the Penn Alumni Interview Program.