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Carol Shepherd
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Carol Shepherd

Owner, Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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Specialties & Experience

Medical Malpractice

About Carol Shepherd

Carol Nelson Shepherd was born in West Point, New York. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Sociology and English from Arizona State University in 1975 and her law degree from Syracuse University College of Law in 1978. In 1987, Ms. Shepherd became one of the founding partners of Feldman Shepherd, where she has devoted her practice to catastrophic injury claims arising from medical negligence. Ms. Shepherd has represented clients in claims against health care providers arising from obstetric / childbirth injury, delayed diagnosis of cancer, improperly performed surgery, psychiatric malpractice and many other cases involving substandard medical care. She has held prominent leadership positions in the regional and national legal communities, including serving as President of both the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations, member of the Board of Governors and Chair of the Professional Negligence Section of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Chair of the Civil Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, as well as serving as a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s House of Delegates. She is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates and The National Trial Lawyers, Top 100 Trial Lawyers, and has been named as a Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers of America. She was honored to be inducted in 2006 as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and in 2010 as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. From 2004 through 2017, Ms. Shepherd was named among the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers® in Pennsylvania, Top 100 Super Lawyers® in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, and as a Pennsylvania Medical Malpractice Super Lawyer® by Thomson Reuters, published annually in Philadelphia Magazine.

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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