John P. Gismondi

Mr. Gismondi attended college at the University of Pittsburgh and graduated with highest honors in 1975. In 1978, he graduated from the University’s School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review. After serving a three-year term as a law clerk in federal district court, Mr. Gismondi entered private practice in 1981. Since that time, he has limited his practice to one area of the law—helping victims and their families in personal injury litigation that includes medical malpractice, automobile accidents, airplane accidents, consumer products, and a variety of other circumstances. Mr. Gismondi has limited his practice to one area of the law—helping victims and their families in personal injury litigation that includes medical malpractice, automobile accidents, airplane accidents, consumer products, and a variety of other circumstances. Mr. Gismondi has been a frequent interview guest on local television and his cases have been featured nationally on the ABC Evening News, Good Morning America, 20/20, The O’Reilly Factor, CNN, and in People Magazine and other publications. In a national rating of lawyers’ abilities, the nation’s most-recognized reference source on lawyers, Martindale-Hubbell, gives Mr. Gismondi an A/V rating, which is their highest rating for both legal ability and personal qualities such as reliability, diligence, and ethics. He has been named a Pennsylvania “Super Lawyer” and is listed in “Best Lawyers in America.” Super Lawyers listed him as one of the Top 10 Lawyers in Pennsylvania.  He was the first lawyer from Western Pennsylvania to ever be included on the list.   In 2013, “The Legal Intelligencer,” the nation’s oldest legal journal, honored him with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” for his impact on the legal profession in Pennsylvania over the past 20 years. He was the only lawyer from the Pittsburgh area so honored.