Principal and founder of DiSandro & Malloy, P.C., a Center City Philadelphia firm, Doug DiSandro Sr., is a 1978 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a 1981 graduate of the Widener University School of Law, where he obtained his law degree.
After graduating law school, he served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable William Hart Rufe of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. After completing his clerkship, he became a personal injury litigator and spent twenty-four years as a partner in a major center city personal injury firm before deciding to start his own personal injury law firm. He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for injured victims and is a certified member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum. He also has extensive experience representing individuals injured by defective products.
Doug has received the distinct honor of being named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, based on an independent survey of peers and industry leaders within the legal community, for several years. Only the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers receive this distinction. He also has received an AV preeminent rating, the highest rating possible from Martindale-Hubbel who evaluates attorney’s level of legal ability and ethical background based on evaluation by their peers. He is a member of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, as well as a member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’ Association.
In addition to mediating hundreds of cases over the past few years. Doug continues to volunteer his time to the Philadelphia Court System where he serves as a Judge Pro Tempore successfully mediating settlements of personal injury cases for the County.