Jeffrey S. Shorr
Esquire
Jeffrey Shorr is a trial lawyer and partner at Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn, Novello & Shorr, P.C. where he focuses his practice on complex personal injury and workers’ compensation litigation. Jeffrey represents individuals and families who are victims of the wrongful acts of others which have resulted in serious, and often catastrophic, personal injury and wrongful death as the result of trucking and motor vehicle accidents, construction accidents, premises defects, defective products, medical malpractice and work injuries.
Mr. Shorr earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Delaware in 1986. Thereafter, he attended Widener University School of Law where he was appointed to serve as a note and comment editor for the Delaware Journal of Corporate Law. He received his Juris Doctor degree, with honors, in 1990. In 2000, after completing an intensive trial advocacy training program, Mr. Shorr was inducted as a Fellow in the Academy of Trial Advocacy.
Mr. Shorr is admitted to practice law in both Federal and State Courts including the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and New Jersey and all state courts in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. Shorr is a member of both the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations, the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Bucks County Bar Association and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association.
As an accomplished trial lawyer, Mr. Shorr, has achieved numerous outstanding results for his clients through jury trials, non-jury trials, mediations, arbitrations and negotiated settlements. He is often asked to litigate some of the more complex personal injury and wrongful death claims on behalf of the firm and its clients. His outstanding results have come from the hard work, dedication, preparation and attention to detail by both Mr. Shorr and his team.
Jeffrey Shorr is often appointed to serve both as a Judge Pro Tempore and Arbitrator by the Court of Common Pleas, First Judicial District where he was awarded the Outstanding Service Award presented by the Judge’s of the Court of Common Pleas of the First Judicial District in 2017. He has also been appointed as an lead team investigator for the Philadelphia Bar Association Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention for which he is tasked with the responsibility of vetting judicial candidates.
In addition, because of his litigation experience, Mr. Shorr has developed an alternative dispute resolution practice where he is regularly appointed by other attorneys to conduct private nonbinding mediations and binding arbitrations, as a sole arbitrator, on behalf of their respective clients.