Law Firm Overview

Dedicated to Providing The Highest Quality Legal Services

Fell & Spalding is devoted to providing the highest quality legal services with a focus on meeting the individual needs of our clients. Our primary goal is to listen to you and understand your needs. By gaining insight into your objectives, we are able to give you the satisfaction and comfort of knowing your legal and personal issues are addressed in an experienced, responsive, and cost-effective manner.

Our attorneys continue the tradition of excellence established over 100 years ago, providing knowledgeable and experienced representation to people and businesses in the city of Philadelphia; Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Chester, and Delaware counties in Southeast Pennsylvania We offer well-informed legal representation in complex litigation matters and over the last 10 years, have concentrated our practice primarily in matters including:

• Defamation
• Health and Healthcare / Peer Review Litigation
• Legal and Medical Malpractice
• Probate and Estate Litigation
• Contract Litigation

While our primary area of practice has evolved as described above, we are always willing to consider becoming involved in complex legal problems outside of these areas of practice when the appropriate matter is presented to us.

Fell & Spalding is proud to be AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell. The ratings, which are periodically reviewed, come from confidential questionnaires and personal interviews of practicing lawyers and judges. "A" is the highest legal ability rating, while "V" signifies very high adherence to professional standards of conduct, ethics, reliability, and diligence. When clients hire Fell & Spalding, they can be assured they will be represented by attorneys judged by their peers to have the highest professional standards and ethics.

At Fell & Spalding, our continued pledge is to deliver the highest quality legal services. We provide knowledgeable representation, respond promptly to questions and concerns, and keep clients personally informed of the status of their case. Our dedication to quality, understanding of the law, trust, and respect forms the foundation of our long-standing relationships with clients throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.

Areas of Practice

• Defamation Overview
• Doctor Defamation
• Attorney Defamation
• Executive, CEO Defamation
• Healthcare Professional Peer Review Defense
• Legal Malpractice Litigation
• Conflict of Interest
• Missed Statute of Limitations
• Breach of Fiduciary Duties
• Medical Malpractice Litigation
• Failure to Diagnose, Misdiagnosis of Medical Condition
• Pre- and Post-Surgical Errors Litigation
• Contested Wills
• Business & Commercial Law
• Civil Rights
• Contracts
• Health & Health Care Law
• Medical Malpractice
• Probate & Estate Administration
• Professional Malpractice Law
• Trusts
• Wills
• Healthcare/Peer Review
• Legal Malpractice Litigation
• Failure to Diagnosis/Misdiagnosis of Cancer
• Doctors
• Lawyers
• Business/CEO
• Surgical Error
• Will Contests
• Contract Litigation

Representative Cases

• Sirianni v. Nugent Bros, Inc., 506 A. 2d 868 (Pa. 1986)
• Fitzpatrick v. Madonna, 623 A. 2d 322 (Pa. Super 1993)
• Rue v. Kmart Corp., 713 A. 2d 82 (Pa. 1998)
• Paul v. Hearst Corp., 261 F. Supp. 2d 303 (M.D. Pa. 2002)

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Directors' & Officers' Liability, Civil Rights, Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee, Trusts, Wills, Professional Responsibility, Health & Health Care Law, Litigation & Appeals, Defamation & Privacy -- Defense, Probate & Estate Administration, Professional Malpractice Law, Legal Malpractice, Medical Malpractice