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Kila Baldwin

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kbaldwin@anapolweiss.comP: (215) 929-8822F: (215) 735-2024

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130 N 18th St #1600Philadelphia, PA 19103P: (215) 929-8822

Kila Baldwin is a shareholder at the law firm of Anapol Weiss. In her career, Baldwin has been involved in a number of high-profile cases, including as lead counsel in trials that resulted in verdicts of $80 million, $57.1 million, and $41 million against Johnson & Johnson in transvaginal mesh cases. Kila is currently investigating cases of women who used Depo-Provera and developed brain or spinal cord tumors (meningiomas). Research has shown that Depo-Provera increases the risk of these types of tumors. (She recently talked about this with Law.com click here to read more about the interview.)

Baldwin was selected as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer each year from 2019-2023. In 2023 she was recognized on the Superlawyers Top 50 list: Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. From 2011-2018 she was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star and from 2014-2019 as a New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star, designating her as among the top 2.5 percent of attorneys in the two states who are 40 or younger. Kila Baldwin has been inducted as a member of the Litigation Counsel of America. She also was selected for the 2017 – 2021 editions of the peer-review publication Best Lawyers in America.

In June 2024, Baldwin and Anapol Weiss shareholder Larry Coben secured a $20.7 million verdict against Honda for a catastrophic injury sustained by the driver of a Honda motorcycle. In another recent case, Baldwin was co-lead counsel at a trial that resulted in a $9.7 million verdict — nearly $11.6 million with prejudgment interest — against a neurosurgeon and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for a patient who suffered brain damage during surgery. This verdict was recognized as the number one surgical error verdict in the United States in 2021 by Top Verdict. Before that, she achieved a $12.75 million settlement with Monteris Medical Inc., the maker of a defective medical device that broke during the same surgery to remove a benign brain tumor.

In May 2019, Baldwin was lead counsel in a six-week trial that resulted in an $80 million jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Inc. for a Media, Pa., woman injured by a surgically implanted vaginal mesh device. The verdict in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court included $50 million in punitive and $30 million in compensatory damages, making it the country’s most significant compensatory award to date in a vaginal mesh case.

A few months earlier, Baldwin won a $41 million verdict — including $25 million in punitive damages – against J&J for a Lancaster, Pa., woman who suffered permanent injuries from a vaginal mesh device designed and marketed by a company subsidiary.

In late 2017, Baldwin was lead counsel of an all-female trial team that won a major jury verdict against J&J for a Pennsylvania woman injured by a vaginal mesh device made by the company’s Ethicon Inc. subsidiary. The award included $7.1 million in compensatory and $50 million in punitive damages for the behemoth drug and device maker’s reckless behavior in selling the defective product that was implanted in women across the country. The verdict was featured on the BBC program Panorama. In earlier cases, Baldwin was co-counsel in two trials that resulted in verdicts of $12.5 million and $13.5 million for two other women injured by the surgically implanted vaginal mesh products.

Baldwin was co-counsel in litigation that produced a $15 million settlement in a birth injury medical malpractice case against a northern New Jersey hospital, a labor and delivery nurse, and an obstetrician. Before that, she was co-counsel in a case that produced the largest-ever personal injury verdict in Pennsylvania.

In December 2012, Baldwin was co-counsel when a jury in Allegheny County, following a five-week trial, awarded $109 million to the family of a woman who was killed when a West Penn Power electric line fell on her in her own yard. The case was later settled for $105 million.

Baldwin also was co-counsel in the wrongful death case of a tow truck driver who was killed when the parking brake on his Ford F-350 tow truck spontaneously disengaged and he was crushed beneath the vehicle. An Allegheny County jury awarded his family $8.75 million. That case and Baldwin’s critical role are chronicled in the book Bad Brake.

She previously helped litigate the Bridgeport fire case, which concluded in a preliminarily approved settlement of $35 million in April 2008. The settlement benefited more than 100 businesses and individuals who suffered losses in the fire that destroyed the Continental Business Center in Bridgeport, Pa. in 2001.

During the Covid pandemic, Baldwin received a verdict of $1,335,000 in a medical malpractice case involving a delay in diagnosis of ovarian cancer in the U.S. Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Baldwin earned a dual J.D./M.B.A. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was awarded the Beasley Scholarship and two awards for Outstanding Oral Advocacy. While at Temple she studied international law in Rome and was a member of the International Law Society and the Woman’s Law Caucus. Later, while a practicing attorney, she again attended Temple and graduated in 2010 from the LL.M. Program in Trial Advocacy, where she subsequently was appointed an adjunct lecturer.

Baldwin earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Schreyer Honors College.

Baldwin’s impressive track record of leadership positions includes:

  • President of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice (PAJ) (2022 – 2023), where she has served as parliamentarian, secretary, treasurer, and vice president.
  • Appointment to Temple University’s Board of Visitors, a prestigious board comprised of distinguished alumni and professionals with diverse industrial leadership skills and extensive experience.
  • Board membership in the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
  • Board membership in the Attorneys Information Exchange Group, a national litigation organization specializing in cases involving vehicle defects and transportation-related accidents.
  • Election to to the Council for the Civil Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, showcasing her dedication to excellence in the legal field.

Baldwin recently authored a chapter in PAJ’s MedMal for Beginners, a 63-page booklet on handling medical malpractice litigation. Her chapter dealt with “The Interplay Between the MedMal and Medical Product Case.”

Baldwin is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

In addition to her legal career, Baldwin has served as the Executive Producer of “Another Man’s Trash” – it was independent movie made to benefit Philadelphia’s homeless.

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • New Jersey

Honors and Awards

  • National Trial Lawyers – Civil Plaintiff – Top 100 - 2024
  • Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list – 2008, 2011-2025
  • New Jersey Super Lawyers list – Selected to Rising Stars: 2014 – 2019
  • Best Lawyers in America 2024-2025
  • Whose Who of Lawyers
  • Top 50 Women Attorneys In Pennsylvania, The American Registry

Education

  • Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004
    • J.D.
    • Honors: Beasley Scholarship
    • Honors: Outstanding Oral Advocacy
    • Honors: Member, International Law Society
    • Honors: Member, Woman’s Law Caucus
  • Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2010
    • LL.M.
  • Temple University Beasley School of Law
    • M.B.A.
  • Pennsylvania State University, 2001
    • Bachelor Degree
    • Honors: Member, Schreyer Honors College; Graduated Phi Beta Kappa; Won the President’s Freshman Award
    • Major: Economics

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