About Langfitt PLLC
We built Langfitt PLLC around a single conviction: that the NCAA's decades-long failure to protect its players from brain injury is one of the most consequential institutional wrongs in American sports history, and that the players and families who bore the cost of that failure deserve lawyers willing to prove it in front of a jury.
What We Do
We are a catastrophic personal injury and complex litigation firm. Our practice is entirely devoted to NFL Concussion Settlement representation and jury trials for former NCAA football players with demonstrated concussive injury.
Our model is national. We try cases in courts across the country, from South Carolina to California, and we work alongside respected trial counsel in each jurisdiction. Our practice is cloud-based and virtually paperless, which means we move efficiently in a modern format.
A Record Built in Courtrooms, Not Press Releases
The firm focuses on latent brain injury in former NFL and NCAA football players. The firm was on the ground floor of the first cases filed against the NFL in 2011 and 2012 and has represented hundreds of players since that time and has obtained hundreds of awards for former NFL players, many of whom are in the pro football hall of fame. On a ongoing basis, the firm represents former NFL players in the Settlement system with the NFL and obtains awards for those players every month.
The firm also represents dozens of former college football players with latent brain disease and takes those cases to jury trials in state courts around the country.
On October 23, 2025, a jury in Orangeburg County, South Carolina returned an $18 million verdict against the NCAA in Geathers v. NCAA — the first jury verdict that held the NCAA liable for latent brain disease (CTE) in a former college football player. The jury deliberated for one hour and fifty minutes.
The verdict arose from years of deposing NCAA executives, accumulating admissions about what the organization knew and when it knew it, and building the evidentiary foundation that made a jury's decision possible in under two hours.
Before Geathers, we obtained watershed appellate authority in Schmitz v. NCAA, decided by the Ohio Supreme Court on October 31, 2018. That decision established that a former player's knowledge of in-career head injuries is not enough to start the statute of limitations clock for latent CTE — a ruling that opened the courthouse door for thousands of former players whose injuries were still unfolding.
The Attorneys Behind the Work
Nature's Symphony
Faces of Humanity
Sands of Time
Beyond Boundaries
David Langfitt
About David
Margaret Bellamy
About Margaret
Jessica Brown
About Jessica
Tom Church
About Tom
In Memoriam: John Lewis
About JohnWhy Families and Referring Lawyers Come to Us
First and only firm to obtain a jury verdict against the NCAA for latent CTE in a former college football player.
Third-largest client base among all lawyers in the NFL Concussion Settlement, with documented award totals that exceed any other single attorney in the program.
Appellate authority in Schmitz v. NCAA establishing the discovery rule for latent CTE claims at the Ohio Supreme Court level.
A proprietary archive of video deposition testimony from NCAA executives admitting a duty to protect players — accumulated across multiple state-court matters and available to support co-counsel cases.
Co-counsel relationships with Bakari Sellers of Strom Law Firm (SC) and John D. Kassel, , giving us trusted local trial partners in key jurisdictions.
Six trials scheduled in the next eighteen months, with per-case exposure expected north of $20–30 million and the potential for punitive damages.
For plaintiff firms with NCAA brain injury cases they cannot handle alone, we offer co-counsel and referral partnerships. We bring the docket, the depositions, and the verdict.
Who We Represent
Our clients are former college football players — linemen, linebackers, running backs — who played through concussions because the NCAA told them it was safe to do so, and who are now living with the consequences. They are men in their forties and fifties dealing with memory loss, mood changes, and cognitive decline that their families recognized before they did. They are widows and adult children of players who died before anyone named what had happened to them.
These are not clients who came to us looking for a settlement. They came to us because what happened to them was wrong, and because they want the institution responsible to answer for it in a courtroom.
If that describes your situation, we would like to hear from you.
Frequently Asked Questions About Langfitt PLLC
What is Langfitt PLLC and what kind of cases does the firm handle?
Langfitt PLLC is a national plaintiff litigation firm focused on NCAA football concussion and CTE lawsuits, NFL Concussion Settlement representation, and catastrophic personal injury claims. The firm is best known for obtaining the first jury verdict against the NCAA for latent CTE in a former college football player — an $18 million verdict in Geathers v. NCAA in October 2025.
Is Langfitt PLLC the same as Langfitt Garner PLLC?
Yes. The firm has operated under both names at different points in its history. The current operating name is Langfitt PLLC. If you worked with the firm previously under the Langfitt Garner name, you are in the right place.
Where is Langfitt PLLC located, and does the firm handle cases outside Pennsylvania?
Our office is located in the Philadelphia suburbs on the Main Line in Pennsylvania. We practice nationally — trying cases in South Carolina, Ohio, Maryland, New York, Indiana, Illinois, California, Kentucky, Minnesota, and other states. Location is not a barrier to representation.
How does Langfitt PLLC select the cases it takes?
We accept approximately one in ten inquiries. Our case-selection process is rigorous because the litigation we pursue requires a significant investment of time, resources, and legal strategy. When we take a case, we are committed to it fully — through trial if necessary.
Does Langfitt PLLC work with other law firms on NCAA brain injury cases?
Yes. We maintain active co-counsel and referral partnerships with plaintiff firms across the country. If your firm has a potential NCAA concussion or CTE case and needs a co-counsel with trial experience in this specific litigation, we welcome that conversation.
