Mr. Golomb is managing shareholder and a founding partner of Golomb & Honik, P.C. He has more than twenty years experience representing the catastrophically injured as a result of medical negligence, defective products and pharmaceuticals, construction accidents and other personal injury claims. He also represents victims in medical monitoring and consumer class action.
Early in his career, Mr. Golomb was an associate, and then shareholder, with a Philadelphia personal injury firm for eleven years before striking out on his own in 1996. Since 1998, Mr. Golomb has been a shareholder in Golomb & Honik, P.C. where he has served as lead or co-counsel in many cases which resulted in million and multi-million dollar verdicts and settlements for clients in individual and class action claims.
An active member of the bar, Mr. Golomb has served as President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; currently sits on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; and is the current Secretary of the American Association for Justice (formerly ATLA). As a governor for the American Association for Justice, Mr. Golomb has twice been recognized with the "Distinguished Service Award",and was awarded with the “Citation of Excellence” by the American Association for Justice for his pro bono service representing families victimized by the events of September 11, 2001. Mr. Golomb also serves as a trustee of the Civil Justice Foundation, fellow of the Roscoe Pound Institute, and serves as the American Association for Justice delegate to the Civil Justice Round Table. Additionally, he served as an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association; as Chair of that body’s State Civil Committee; has served two terms as a hearing officer for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board; and sat for four years on the Judicial Selection and Retention Committee.
Mr. Golomb is a frequent lecturer and author who addresses trial advocacy subjects for the plaintiffs’ and defense bar in areas such as expert witness preparation, evidence, cross-examination and ethics.
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Ruben Honik has nearly a quarter century of experience as a civil trial lawyer representing plaintiffs across a broad range of tort cases. A founding partner of Greitzer & Honik, Mr. Honik merged his practice with that of Richard Golomb (declared among the Top 10 lateral moves for the year by the Legal Intelligencer) in 1998 to form Golomb & Honik. While at the firm, and for many years before that, Mr. Honik has litigated cases involving defective products, medical and other professional negligence, civil rights violations, and vehicle and highway design defects. In the more recent past, Mr. Honik has developed a national practice representing victims of environmental harm, particularly those exposed to the toxin beryllium in residential and workplace settings.
In 2001, Mr. Honik was co-lead counsel in Cullen v. Whitman Education Group, a federal RICO class action certified in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; it resulted in the largest settlement of its kind against a publicly traded national chain of trade schools. More recently, in Whisnant, et al. v. General Chemical Corp., Mr. Honik represented thousands of chemically exposed oil refinery workers in connection with individual and class claims certified for settlement in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
A past president of both the Philadelphia Trial
Lawyers’ Association and the Pennsylvania Trial
Lawyers’ Association, Mr. Honik is a frequent
lecturer. In addition, he was the long-time editor
of The Verdict, the monthly newsletter of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers' Association.
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