David Inscho

David K. Inscho is a partner at Kline & Specter who has worked on a wide array of civil matters including medical malpractice, auto accidents, workplace injuries, civil rights, and sexual abuse cases. His legal victories led to his selection among the best lawyers in Pennsylvania for 2025-2026 by Super Lawyers, an independent survey group that bases selections on attorney ballots and blue ribbon committee review. In his most recent case, Inscho and Helen Lawless won a jury verdict exceeding $5 million from a Bucks County jury for a 78-year-old woman after her gastroenterologist's misdiagnosis of diverticulitis led to the amputation of her left hand, right thumb, and left great toe. In August 2023, Inscho obtained a $3.5 million settlement with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in a case involving sexual assault allegations against the late Pastor John Close, who allegedly assaulted a 14-year-old boy attending religious classes at St. Katherine of Sienna in Wayne, Pennsylvania in 2006. Before that settlement, Inscho worked with Tom Kline to obtain the largest-ever settlement against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in a child sexual abuse case. The settlement amount was confidential and involved a child who suffered years-long abuse by a serial pedophile priest at Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in Northeast Philadelphia. The victim died of a drug overdose at age 26. In 2018, Inscho obtained a $4 million settlement for an autistic woman who was raped while residing at a Philadelphia-area treatment facility. A staff member failed to report the crime for over ninety minutes after witnessing the rape by a fellow employee. The perpetrator was subsequently arrested, tried, and sentenced to seven to fifteen years in prison. In November 2017, Inscho secured a $7 million settlement with a private prison company regarding the suicide of a mentally ill inmate held for fifty-two consecutive days in solitary confinement at the George W. Hill Correctional Facility in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The inmate, Janene Wallace, thirty-five, had been mistreated by guards and denied proper medical attention and supervision. The prison agreed to implement significant policy changes. In late 2015, Inscho worked with Shanin Specter to secure a $15 million settlement against a Philadelphia-area hospital for a middle-aged woman who suffered a stroke and permanent brain damage due to medical malpractice. Inscho was lead counsel in earlier litigation resulting in a $1.7 million jury verdict in Berks County Common Pleas Court for the family of a three-month-old girl who died after a doctor failed to diagnose a bacterial meningitis infection. In 2013, he was co-counsel with Tom Kline in a case producing one of the largest verdicts for an undocumented worker, winning a $5 million award for a man crushed to death by a collapsing excavation site. Inscho was co-counsel with Tom Kline in achieving a $1.8 million settlement in a case against a psychotherapist who had sexual contact with a teenage patient. The 2011 settlement included a tearful public admission and apology from the therapist in open court. In 2010, Inscho teamed with Kline in obtaining a $10.5 million settlement of a federal lawsuit involving a Philadelphia teenager who was strangled after being placed in a restraint hold at a Tennessee treatment center. Inscho was co-counsel in a 2009 case resulting in a $3.2 million settlement for the widower of a Wayne County woman killed when her car struck farming equipment that broke loose from an oncoming truck. The settlement was believed to be the largest on record in the rural northeastern Pennsylvania county. Before joining Kline & Specter, Inscho was an associate at the Dechert Law Firm, where he handled arbitrations, municipal court hearings, discovery motions, and court conferences across various legal matters. In one significant construction case involving large-scale environmental remediation, he was solely responsible for all litigation aspects. Prior to joining Dechert, he worked for two years as a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Clarence C. Newcomer, a celebrated jurist who served on the federal bench for more than three decades in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Inscho had a distinguished academic career with top honors in multiple areas, including an award for oratory skills as a member of the national champion Temple University mock trial team. He achieved the highest score on the July 2002 Pennsylvania bar exam, taken by 1,957 law school graduates statewide. At Temple University Beasley School of Law, Inscho graduated magna cum laude and received the West Publishing Award given to the top five students in his graduating class. He worked as a research assistant for Professor William Woodward, Jr. while enrolled there. Inscho was a member of the law school's renowned mock trial team, which competes in cities throughout the country. His team won first place in the National Championship Mock Trial Tournament sponsored by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and Inscho was selected as the Cathy Bennett Award winner for best overall advocate. In subsequent years, Inscho coached mock trial teams at Drexel University Law School, where his team won a Regional Championship trophy in the National Trial Competition in 2011, considered the most prestigious competition in the country. While a student at Temple, Inscho won the TASLA award given to the top student in evidence and received recognition for Outstanding Oral Advocacy in Legal Research Writing in both criminal and civil fields. He served as Note and Comment editor of the Temple Law Review and was a member of the Justinian Society, the Italian-American law society. Inscho earned his undergraduate degree in government and economics from Franklin and Marshall College, where he was recognized as a Presidential Scholar and awarded the Lanious B. Keiper Award for academic achievement. At F&M he served as treasurer and rush chairman of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity. Inscho is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.