Mark Altemose
CEO and Managing Shareholder | Cohen, Feeley, Altemose, Berg & McKarski
Mark Altemose is a personal injury, construction accidents and medical malpractice trial lawyer and CEO and Managing Shareholder of Cohen, Feeley, Altemose, Berg & McKarski in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. J.D., Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law (1990).
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Suite 200
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18020
I attribute much of my success as a trial lawyer to growing up and working in the Lehigh Valley, where I learned the values of hard work, honor, and respect for others.
Mark K. Altemose is CEO and managing shareholder of Cohen, Feeley, Altemose, Berg & McKarski in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania. He concentrates on personal injury and construction litigation, handling serious injury and death cases arising from vehicle, truck and motorcycle crashes, medical and pharmaceutical malpractice, construction accidents, gas and chemical explosions, defective products and mass torts.
Altemose has served as lead counsel in several prominent Lehigh Valley cases, including the Charles Cullen serial murder cases, the DePuy ASR hip implant litigation, the Allentown natural gas explosion and a Bushkill Township propane tank explosion. The firm credits him with verdicts of $95 million, $4.36 million and $1.5 million and a $20 million multi-plaintiff settlement. He is board certified as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is often chosen as a mediator and arbitrator in complex injury cases.
A native of Pen Argyl, he earned his bachelor’s degree cum laude from Lafayette College and his law degree from Villanova in 1990. He spent about a decade on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, was a founding director of its Auto Negligence Section, and served as president of the Donald E. Wieand Barristers’ Inn.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy
- J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1990
- B.A., cum laude, Lafayette College, 1987
- Pennsylvania, 1990
- New Jersey, 1991
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1990
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1991
- U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey, 1991
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2002
Practice Areas
- Pennsylvania Association for Justice (Board of Governors; founding director, Auto Negligence Section)
- Donald E. Wieand Barristers' Inn (Past President)
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Lehigh County Bar Association (Board of Directors)
- Northampton County Bar Association (Chairman, Medical/Legal Committee)
- Best Lawyers "Lawyer of the Year," Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, 2023
- Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, 2008–2023
- Best Lawyers, 2020–2023
- The National Trial Lawyers Top 100, 2022
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent, Judicial Edition, 2018–present
- Top 100 Trial Lawyers in Pennsylvania, The American Trial Lawyers Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum, 2003–present
- $95 Million Verdict: Verdict credited to Altemose on his firm biography.
- $20 Million Settlement: Multiple-plaintiff settlement credited to Altemose on his firm biography.
- $4.36 Million Verdict: Verdict credited to Altemose on his firm biography.
- $1.5 Million Verdict: Verdict credited to Altemose on his firm biography.
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