Attorney Jarad L. Silverstein

email: jsilverstein@wapnernewman.com

Jarad L. Silverstein is a Partner at Wapner Newman and chairs the firm’s Medical Malpractice department.  He has been a member of the firm since 2017. He specializes in medical malpractice and catastrophic personal injury cases.

Jarad is a trial attorney at heart. He has tried numerous cases to verdict in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As a testament to his skill and professionalism, Jarad often receives case referrals from lawyers far and wide seeking his assistance.

Unlike most of his peers, Jarad is intimately involved in every aspect of every case – from the initial intake, through the pre-litigation phase, into litigation and far beyond resolution. This hands-on approach leaves no stone unturned in even the most esoteric of cases. His clients become family. He cares deeply about the well-being of his clients, and he brings significant skill, experience, and compassion to every client’s case.

“The cases I handle are very sensitive and life-changing to those affected. My clients are like my family. They feel comfortable calling me at 10 o’clock at night on a Saturday evening if they need me. I am always there to be that shoulder to lean on and that fighter championing their cause. They deserve the highest degree of personal service and attention. The attorney-client relationship is the most important relationship.”

Jarad’s experience runs the gamut of medical specialties, including but not limited to obstetrics, critical care, trauma, cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, anesthesia, urology, hematology and oncology, and wound care.

Some of Jarad’s Notable Recoveries:

• $15,000,000 – wrongful death – failure to provide emergency medical treatment for an asthma attack leading to anoxic brain injury and death
• $13,250,000 – pediatric anoxic brain injury (PA)
• $6,000,000 – newborn hypoxic brain injury (PA)
• $4,000,000 – wrongful death – ER misdiagnosis of a splanchnic artery aneurysm (PA)
• $4,000,000 – newborn hypoxic brain injury (PA)
• $3,250,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat volvulus (PA)
• $3,000,000 – failure to timely diagnose and treat carotid artery dissection (PA)
• $2,400,000 – stillbirth due to placental abruption (PA)
• $2,000,000 – failure to timely diagnose and treat compartment syndrome (PA)
• $2,000,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (PA)
• $1,800,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat breast cancer (PA)
• $1,650,000 – wrongful death – opioid overprescription (PA)
• $1,300,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat pneumococcal pneumonia (NJ)
• $1,200,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat pulmonary embolism (PA)
• $1,150,000 – wrongful death – delayed treatment of acute appendicitis (NJ)
• $1,000,000 – transected bilateral ureters during hysterectomy (PA)
• $1,000,000 – wrongful death – failure to timely diagnose and treat pneumococcal meningitis (PA)
• $1,000,000 – failure to timely diagnose breast cancer (NJ)
• $1,000,000 – wrongful death – negligent post-operative management after bypass graft revascularization (PA)
• $975,000 – wrongful death – failure to treat heart attack (NJ)
• $950,000 – delivery of newborn complicated by shoulder dystocia (PA)
• $900,000 – failure to timely provide blood products to counter severe anemia (NJ)
• $900,000 – wrongful death – improper aortic valve surgery (PA)
• $900,000 – failure to properly manage gestational diabetes prenatally leading to stillbirth (PA)
• $900,000 – wrongful death – failure to detect splenic laceration radiographically (PA)
• $800,000 – wrongful death – failure to diagnose thoracic aortic dissection (NJ)
• $750,000 – delivery of newborn complicated by shoulder dystocia (PA)

Jarad earned his Bachelor’s degree from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., in 2004. He earned his law degree from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware, in 2007. While at Widener, he was a competitor and ultimately the president and coach of the school’s Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court team.

He began his legal career as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Karen L. Suter in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Burlington County, Law Division. He subsequently spent more than eight years as a medical malpractice defense attorney with Parker McCay P.A. in Mount Laurel, New Jersey, where he represented major hospital systems, physicians, physician assistants, nurses and other medical professionals. He has been able to bring to Wapner Newman significant insight about representing “the other side,” which has worked to his clients’ advantage.  He believes his current position was his destined role as a lawyer, advocating on behalf of those who have been the victim of medical negligence.

“I get a great deal of joy and satisfaction out of seeing how a successful case changes my clients’ lives. I listen. I am very organized, and I thoroughly prepare for everything I do. I never procrastinate.”

Jarad has been recognized by the “Super Lawyers” publication as a Rising Star from 2013-2022, and then as a Super Lawyer from 2023 to the present. Jarad has also been selected to the Best Lawyers in America in 2025, and his Medical Malpractice department has received “Tier 1” status from Best Lawyers.

Jarad also serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the First Judicial District, Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, mediating cases for the Major Case Jury Civil docket. He also gives lectures to his peers and has presented several Continuing Legal Education (CLE) courses on relevant issues arising in medical malpractice litigation.

Jarad was born and raised in Philadelphia. He currently resides in South Philadelphia with the joys of his life – his wife Melanie, his daughter Harper, and his 3 sons, Lincoln, River and Gavin.

Jarad is a die-hard Eagles fan. He also loves to travel. In college, he studied abroad in Hong Kong and has travelled extensively through Asia, Europe and South America.

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

• Super Lawyers “Rising Star” (under age 40) – 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
• Super Lawyer – 2023, 2024, 2025
• Best Lawyers – 2025
• National Society of Legal Advocates Top 40 Under 40, 2013

MEMBERSHIPS & COMMUNITY SERVICE

• Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ)
• Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association (PTLA)
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• New Jersey Association for Justice (NJAJ)
• American Association for Justice (AAJ)
• Camden County Regional Chamber of Commerce (Past Member of Board of Directors and former Counsel to the Board)

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