Elliot Kolodny
Shareholder ekolodny@stark-stark.com
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777 Township Line Road
Yardley, Pennsylvania 19067
Elliot Kolodny is a Shareholder and member of Stark & Stark’s Accident & Personal Injury, Nursing Home Litigation and Elder Abuse & Neglect groups. Mr. Kolodny has been a trial attorney for more than 20 years, and currently focuses his practice on catastrophic personal injury, malpractice, nursing home and birth trauma litigation. Mr. Kolodny has handled litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of legal fields including: products liability, complex commercial litigation, securities, environmental, employment, municipal, consumer fraud, domestic relations, trust and estates, bankruptcy and real estate.
Mr. Kolodny has extensive experience litigating cases throughout Pennsylvania including Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, Lehigh, Carbon, Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, as well as in Federal Court in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has handled appeals in the Superior and Commonwealth Courts of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Kolodny has also been a court appointed neutral arbitrator.
Mr. Kolodny has extensive experience litigating cases throughout Pennsylvania including Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, Lehigh, Carbon, Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, as well as in Federal Court in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He has handled appeals in the Superior and Commonwealth Courts of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Kolodny has also been a court appointed neutral arbitrator.
Education
J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1988
A.B., Colby College, 1985
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
PennsylvaniaUnited States Supreme Court
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Professional & Bar Association Memberships
American Bar Association
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Bucks County Bar Association
American Association for Justice
Birth Trauma Litigation Group Attorneys Information Exchange Group; Nursing Home Group
Pennsylvania Trial Lawyer's Association
Medical Malpractice Section
Teaching Experience
- Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University, Pre-Trial Advocacy
- Invited Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania, Worlds in Collision: A culture of safety meets bad apple torts
- Course Planner, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Practical Pretrial Practice
- Faculty, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Practical Pretrial Practice, Fundamentals of Pennsylvania Civil Practice & Procedure
- Lecturer, Lankenau Hospital Ethics Committee
- Invited Speaker to many senior citizen groups throughout Bucks County
- Instructor, People’s Law School, Bucks County Community College
- Lecturer, Central Bucks West High School
Community Activities
- Special Equestrians Therapeutic Riding Program, Chairman of the Board of Directors (a program that provides therapy to disabled children)
- Old York Road Temple Beth Am, Co-Chair of Adult Education
- Guardians of the National Cemetery, Business Advisory Council
- Bucks County Republican Committee, Executive Committee
- Former Member of Network of Victim Assistance, Board of Directors and Executive Committee
- The Meadowbrook School, Former Member of the Board of Directors
- Republican Committeeman, Warrington Township
- Republican Party of Pennsylvania, Former State Committeeman
- Former member of The Warrington Township Planning Committee
- Former Chairman of the Warrington Township Vacancy Board
Reported Decisions
- Smith v. Berg, 247 F.3d 532 (3rd Cir. 2001)
- Thomas v. Ford, 111 F. Supp. 529 (D. N.J. 2000)
- Thomas v. Ford, 70 F. Supp. 521 (D. N.J. 1999)
- Resolution Trust Corp. v. W.W. Development & Management, Inc., 73 F.3d 1298 (3rd Cir. 1996)
- City of Philadelphia v. Lead Industries Ass’n Inc., 994 F.2d 112 (3rd Cir. 1993)
- Blau v. Rappaport, 861 F. Supp. 338 (E.D. Pa 1994)
- Millers Mutual Insurance Co. v. Euler, 39 Pa. D. & C.4th 44
- Piccoli v. Goetzberger, 35 Pa. D. & C.4th 315 (Bucks 1996)
Media Appearances
- Good Morning America
- KYW, CBS 3
- WPVI, 6 ABC
- WCAU, NBC 10
- WTXF, Fox29
Mr. Kolodny was also featured in the book, Cape May Court House: A Death in the Night by best-selling author Lawrence Schiller. One of Mr. Kolodny’s cases was also featured on Dateline NBC.