Attorneys
Aaron J. Freiwald
Aaron J. Freiwald is a founding shareholder of Layser & Freiwald, P.C. Mr. Freiwald has extensive trial experience and has obtained numerous six- and seven-figure jury verdicts and settlements on behalf of his clients.
Mr. Freiwald’s practice concentrates in health care and environmental contamination related litigation, including catastrophic injury, medical negligence, consumer fraud, business disputes, prescription drug errors and toxic torts. Mr. Freiwald also has handled cases involving civil rights violations, employment disputes, securities fraud, insurance coverage and bad faith and defective products.
In September, 2005, Mr. Freiwald won a $4.5 million verdict in a case where the surgeon operated on the wrong kidney and where the patient then died. In May 2004, Mr. Freiwald obtained a $4 million verdict at trial on behalf of a 36-year old mother of three who died of a massive pulmonary embolism following routine knee surgery. Mr. Freiwald obtained a $6.4 million verdict in Pittsburgh on behalf of the estate of a 19-year old boy who died because of inadequate monitoring while on the anti-convulsant medication, Depakote, and a $6.33 million verdict in Philadelphia on behalf of the estate of a 13-month old boy who died of bacterial meningitis.
Mr. Freiwald concentrates his practice in Pennsylvania, but has handled complex, civil cases and trials in New Jersey, Maryland, Illinois, Florida and Ohio. He is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Board of Trial Advocates, the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and the Philadelphia Bar Association. Mr. Freiwald is also a member of the Leaders’ Forum of the American Trial Lawyers Association. Mr. Freiwald holds an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell, the organization’s highest rating. Mr. Freiwald has been recognized by his peers as a "Pennsylvania Super Lawyer". In 2006, Mr. Freiwald was invited to become a Fellow of the American Academy of Trial Counsel. In 2007, Lawdragon Publications named Mr. Freiwald to its list of the 500 leading plaintiff’s lawyers in America.
Mr. Freiwald, originally from San Francisco, graduated from Columbia College in New York and was an honors graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before becoming an attorney, Mr. Freiwald worked as an investigative print and television journalist for eight years covering law and politics in Washington, D.C., New York, Latin America and in Europe. He worked as a foreign correspondent based in Mexico, covering Central America, and later in Paris, France. Mr. Freiwald was the Editorial Director for The American Lawyer/Time Warner helping manage the launch of the ground-breaking "reality TV" network, Court TV. In 1994, Mr. Freiwald published the critically acclaimed book, The Last Nazi (W.W. Norton), which is a history of the Nazi war crimes trials in Germany and the story of the life and trial of SS Commander Joseph Schwammberger, one of the last major Nazi figures ever to stand trial.
Mr. Freiwald has lectured frequently in continuing education courses for attorneys on such topics as use of expert witnesses in litigation, issues in prescription drug litigation, and pitfalls of releases and other settlement contracts.
Mr. Freiwald is married and has three daughters. 
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