Amalia V. Romanowicz is Chair of the firm's Professional Liability Defense Department, Principal in its Medical Malpractice Litigation Practice Group, and Member of the firm's Board of Directors. She focuses her practice on the defense of clients, including physicians, nurses, hospitals, long-term care and assisted living facilities, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacies, and pharmacists, at trials, mediations, and arbitrations involving cases with often catastrophic losses and significant injuries that present substantial exposure.
Ms. Romanowicz is an experienced trial lawyer who has litigated diverse cases in the medical negligence field in jury trials venued in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties. Her over two decades of trial, mediation, and arbitration experience includes a diverse range of cases, including representation of doctors and nurses in cases involving claims of improper medical screening under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), alleged injuries/death resulting from errors and negligence during the surgical process, and alleged misdiagnosis/failure to diagnose. She has represented pharmacists in cases involving alleged mis-fills, failure-to-identify, and incorrect packaging that involve catastrophic loss and injury.
She represents clients in most major medical sub-specialties, including emergency medicine, surgery, pathology, radiology, oncology, orthopedics, labor and delivery, and gynecology, among others.
Prior to her career as an attorney, Ms. Romanowicz was a practicing pharmacist for nearly a decade, working for a hospital, and a national retail pharmacy chain. She also managed a major retail pharmacy location overseeing pharmacy and retail operations.
Ms. Romanowicz serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Mission Kids, a Montgomery County, PA-based non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization providing multidisciplinary care to alleged victims of sexual and physical abuse.
Since 2011, Ms. Romanowicz has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer (top 5%) by her peers. In 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016, she was also listed in Super Lawyers Business Edition. In its 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions, The Best Lawyers in America© recognized Ms. Romanowicz in the category of Professional Malpractice Law - Defendants and was recognized as a "Lawyer of the Year" in 2023 in the same category. For information about these selections and an overview of common third-party publications, rankings, and list methodologies, click here.
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