Ezra Wohlgelernter

Ezra Wohlgelernter

Philadelphia, PA recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2013
Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP

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Awarded Practice Areas

Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Biography

For more than 30 years, co-founding partner Ezra Wohlgelernter has maintained a diverse practice portfolio including a successful history of motor vehicle and truck litigation, premises liability claims, medical negligence litigation, and significant personal injury claims. Ezra has represented victims of unsafe working environments, drunk driving and trucking accidents, operating room neglect, and civil rights violations. Ezra’s robust legal experience spans a broad spectrum of areas and allows him to practice in several different industry sectors.

As a Philadelphia Personal Injury Lawyer Ezra was selected for inclusion in the 2018 Best Lawyers in America list by U.S. News & World Report, and was recognized by Thomson Reuters as a Top 100 Super Lawyer in Philadelphia in 2014. In addition, he was named as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for five of the past seven years.

Ezra is the president of The Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and is the immediate past vice chair of the SeniorLAW Center. Ezra is passionately involved in the Jewish community of Philadelphia, and has served as a trustee of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia and the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education, as well as president of the Philadelphia Community Kollel (Institute for Advanced Talmudic Research).

Ezra, a Temple University Beasley School of Law graduate, is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.

Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP

10 Best Lawyers awards

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Overview

  • Temple University, J.D., graduated 1981
  • Yeshiva University, BA, graduated 1978

  • Pennsylvania, USDC, Eastern, Middle and Western District Courts
  • Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • New Jersey, District of New Jersey
  • New York, Third Department

  • AIPAC - Member
  • American Association of Justice - Member
  • New Jersey Association for Justice - Member
  • New York State Trial Lawyers Association - Member
  • Pa. Association of Justice - Member
  • Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association - Immediate Past President
  • Senior Law Center - Board Member

  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1983
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1982
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, 1982
  • Pennsylvania, USDC, Eastern, Middle and Western District Courts
  • Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
  • New Jersey, District of New Jersey
  • New York, Third Department
  • AIPAC - Member
  • American Association of Justice - Member
  • New Jersey Association for Justice - Member
  • New York State Trial Lawyers Association - Member
  • Pa. Association of Justice - Member
  • Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association - Immediate Past President
  • Senior Law Center - Board Member
  • Temple University, J.D., graduated 1981
  • Yeshiva University, BA, graduated 1978
  • U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1983
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1982
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania, 1982

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
  • Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs
  • Medical Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
  • Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Civil Rights Law
Awards:
  • President's Award, Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association
  • City of Philadelphia, City Counsel
  • Super Lawyer 2005, 2009, 2016 - 2017
  • Best Lawyers 2013 - 2016

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Case History

Cases
  • $4 Million Award for Anesthesia Mishap
In a tragedy brought about by the medical malpractice of an anesthesiologist at a local hospital, a young woman undergoing a minor surgical procedure for the removal of a benign lipoma sustained catastrophic brain damage, eventually bringing about her death several months later. Attorneys Alan M. Feldman and Ezra Wohlgelernter met with the family of the victim immediately after the occurrence, and doggedly pursued the case until the true facts were finally determined. Through deposition testimony obtained from a dozen reluctant witnesses, Feldman and Wohlgelernter established that this medical catastrophe was caused by the administration of excessive intravenous sedation drugs, together with the failure to constantly monitor the patient’s respiratory status. Faulty hospital equipment and inadequate supervision of the newly hired anesthesiologist also contributed to the disastrous outcome.
  • $2.2 Million Verdict in Baltimore Arising From Tractor-Trailer Accident
A Baltimore jury awarded $2.2 million* to a 50-year-old woman who was injured in a chain collision on Interstate 70 when a tractor-trailer failed to come to a stop and struck a line of vehicles that had stopped in front of it.

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