John J. Snyder

John J. Snyder is a partner with Rawle & Henderson LLP in its Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office. He is Chair of the Catastrophic Loss Group. He and his practice group are regularly retained in high exposure cases (demands commonly in the $30 million – $100 million range), often just weeks or months before trial, to try a case to verdict. In addition, Jack is Chair of the firm’s Medical Professional Liability Group. He focuses his trial practice on the defense of catastrophic losses with particular emphasis on construction, industrial, pharmaceutical, product liability, fire & explosion, and medical malpractice matters. Jack is a very experienced litigator, having successfully tried hundreds of cases to verdict in a number of state and federal jurisdictions, including those with known high verdict potential such as Philadelphia County.

Jack is a native of Philadelphia and was a Scholar-Athlete at St. Joseph’s University and the captain of the basketball team in 1971. He graduated from Temple University Law School in 1975.

Jack’s extensive litigation experience began as a Deputy City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia. While retaining his own case load and trying a significant number of cases to verdict, he also supervised 27 other trial attorneys while managing an active case load of over 3,000 files. He soon succeeded to the position of Special Deputy to the Solicitor where he was responsible for defending high exposure cases on behalf of the City. Those cases involved general liability, premises liability, vehicle accidents and the defense of the Police Department in Civil Rights cases. Since 1984, he has been in private practice primarily defending catastrophic loss claims.