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Richard M. Golomb

Richard M. Golomb is managing shareholder and a founding partner of Golomb & Honik. He has more than 20 years experience representing those catastrophically injured as a result of medical negligence, defective products, and construction accidents, as well as other personal injury claims.

Early in his career, Mr. Golomb spent 11 years as an associate, and then shareholder, with a Philadelphia personal injury firm before striking out on his own in 1996. Since 1998, Mr. Golomb has been a shareholder in Golomb & Honik. He has served as lead or co-counsel in many cases that resulted in million and multi-million dollar results for clients participating in individual and class action claims.

An active member of the bar, Mr. Golomb has served as president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association; he currently sits on the Boards of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America. Recently, he was awarded the "Citation of Excellence" by the Association of Trial Lawyers of America for his active participation representing families victimized by the events of September 11, 2001. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association, as chair of that body's State Civil Committee and for two terms as a hearing officer for the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Disciplinary Board. He currently sits on the Judicial Selection and Retention Committee.

A fellow of the Academy of Trial Advocacy, Mr. Golomb is also a fellow of the Roscoe Pound Institute and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice.

Mr. Golomb is a frequent lecturer and author who recently spoke as a “Courtroom Master” for the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers. He often speaks in the area of “Ethics for the Trial Lawyer” and addresses trial advocacy subjects such as expert witness preparation, evidence, and cross-examination.

   
   
Ruben Honik

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 the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’ Association and the current President-Elect of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers’ Association (he will serve as President in 2006-07), Mr. Honik is a frequent lecturer. In addition, he was a long-time editor of The Verdict.