Kila B. Baldwin - Philadelphia, PA
1525 Locust StreetFloor 19Philadelphia, PA 19102- 3719
Kline & Specter PC
Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyer
Overview
Kila B. Baldwin has a wide range of legal experience, having worked with a worldwide law firm, the Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Baldwin was selected as a 2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer -- Rising Star, designating her as among the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state who are 40 or younger.
Prior to joining Kline & Specter, she worked at the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith, an...
Kila B. Baldwin has a wide range of legal experience, having worked with a worldwide law firm, the Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Baldwin was selected as a 2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer -- Rising Star, designating her as among the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state who are 40 or younger.
Prior to joining Kline & Specter, she worked at the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith, an...
Kila B. Baldwin has a wide range of legal experience, having worked with a worldwide law firm, the Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Baldwin was selected as a 2008 Pennsylvania Super Lawyer -- Rising Star, designating her as among the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state who are 40 or younger.
Prior to joining Kline & Specter, she worked at the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith, an international law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers in 21 cities, where she handled pharmaceutical litigation on behalf of a major corporate client.
At Kline & Specter her practice is focused on personal injury cases, including medical malpractice, product liability and premises liability. She previously worked on class action cases with the firm.
Most recently, in March 2009, Baldwin was co-counsel with Shanin Specter, in the wrongful death case of Joseph Blumer, 43, a tow truck driver who was killed when the parking brake on his Ford F-350 tow truck spontaneously disengaged and he was crushed beneath the vehicle. An Allegheny County jury awarded his family $8.75 million. (See Blumer.)
Baldwin previously was co-counsel with Specter in the Bridgeport fire case, which concluded in a preliminarily approved settlement of $35 million in April 2008. The settlement benefited more than 100 businesses and individuals which suffered losses in the fire that destroyed the Continental Business Center in Bridgeport, Pa. in 2001. (See Bridgeport)
At the SEC, where Baldwin was assigned to the Division of Enforcement as part of a summer honors program while studying law, she worked with government agency enforcement attorneys investigating, among other things, the role of investment advisers in fraudulent schemes.
During law school she also worked with the Philadelphia district attorney’s office, where she handled preliminary felony hearings and misdemeanor trials in municipal court.
Baldwin earned a dual J.D./M.B.A. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was awarded the Beasley Scholarship and two awards for Outstanding Oral Advocacy. While at Temple she studied international law in Rome and was a member of the International Law Society and the Woman’s Law Caucus. Later, while a practicing attorney, she again attended Temple and graduated in 2010 from the LL.M. Program in Trial Advocacy, where she subsequently was appointed as an adjunct lecturer.
Baldwin earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Schreyer Honors College.
She is past president of the board of directors of The Women’s Therapy Center, a Philadelphia non-profit organization that helps provide mental health care to low-income patients. Baldwin, who speaks Italian and Spanish, previously worked as a volunteer in Philadelphia tutoring English as a second language through the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy.
Baldwin is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She is a member of the American Association for Justice (AAJ) New Lawyers Division Board of Governors. Baldwin was elected in October 2009 as a member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice Board of Governors, is the Eastern District representative of the PAJ New Lawyers Section and heads the organization's Future Leaders Division. of PaAJ and will be serving as an adjunct lecturer at Temple's LLM program this year. She is also a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar associations and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
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