David Langfitt has practiced complex commercial litigation and mass personal injury litigation for 32 years and focuses on litigation and trials involving numerous parties, claims, and courts, both state and federal.  He has litigated a wide variety of complex cases involving tort claims, the federal securities laws, professional liability, legal malpractice, Pennsylvania's Dragonetti Act (an analog to the F. R. Civ. P. 11), merger agreements, pre-packaged bankruptcy plans, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and infringement of patents and copyrights.

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Mr. Langfitt currently spends most of his time focusing on catastrophic personal injury litigation involving both the NCAA and the National Football League as defendants.  Click HERE to view Mr. Langfitt's most recent jury verdict for $18,000,000 on behalf of a former NCAA player.  Mr. Langfitt currently has litigation against the NCAA in multiple state courts.  The team of lawyers at Langfitt PLLC regularly evaluate incoming cases for former college football players to determine whether the firm is willing to take the case and bring it to a trial by jury.

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Mr. Langfitt served on the Court-appointed Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee in the NFL Concussion Litigation and Settlement.  He is among the leaders for all ongoing claims and was recently appointed as an inaugural member to the NFL Concussion Settlement Player Advocacy Committee to help NFL Players navigate the Claims process that has become increasingly difficult due to audits, appeals, and increased restrictions.

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Mr. Langfitt has personally represented 500-1000 former players against the NFL for latent brain disease and has received more awards for players than any other lawyer in the Settlement.  He continues to represent players on a daily basis against the NFL for the purpose of holding the NFL accountable to players.     

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Mr. Langfitt represents over a dozen players diagnosed with latent brain disease who played at the NCAA level but without significant playing time in the NFL.  He is the premier attorney in this subset of personal injury litigation and has won the only jury verdict ever against the NCAA for latent brain disease. 

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Mr. Langfitt is the lead attorney in the landmark case of Robert Geathers v. NCAA (Court of Common Pleas of Orangeburg Cty., South Carolina), which resulted in an $18,000,000 verdict for the Plaintiffs.  Information about the signed verdict form and Judgment entered by the Court is available here.  Other cases that David Langfitt is currently litigating against the NCAA are: Sean Berton v. NCAA (Court of Common Pleas, Phila. County), Steven Schmitz v. NCAA (Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga Cty., Ohio), Mary Ann Gera v. NCAA (Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga Cty., Ohio), John Askin v. NCAA (Jefferson Circuit Court, Louisville, Kentucky), Josh Campion v. NCAA (Hennepin County, MN), Kelly Merlino v. NCAA (New York State Supreme Court, New York County), Brandon Haw v. NCAA (Baltimore City), and Michael Hamlin v. NCAA (Court of Common Pleas of Darlington Cty., South Carolina), all of which are expected to go to trial in the next 1-2 years.  Mr. Langfitt has litigated the Schmitz case since 2014 and obtained a watershed opinion in the Supreme Court of Ohio that can be found at Schmitz v. Natl. Collegiate Athletic Assn., 155 Ohio St.3d 389, 2018-Ohio-4391.  Mr. Langfitt's oral argument in that case and the written opinion from the Supreme Court of Ohio are available here.

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For many years, Mr. Langfitt served as nationwide patent litigation counsel to Q. I. Press Controls, an international technology company based in Holland.  He represented Q. I. in multiple cases in courts throughout the United States that involved patent infringement and disputes that arose out of re-examinations within the U.S. Patent and Trademark office.  Representative opinions can be found at Quad/Tech v. QI Press Controls, et al., 701 F. Supp. 2d 644 (E.D. Pa. 2010), aff’d, 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 5729 (Fed. Cir. 2011) and QI Press Controls v. Lee, 752 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2014).

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Prior to founding Langfitt PLLC, Mr. Langfitt was a partner at Locks Law Firm in Philadelphia from 2010 until 2019, and a partner at Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads LLP in Philadelphia from 2000 to 2010.  He was an associate at Montgomery, McCracken from 1992 to 2000.  While at Montgomery, McCracken, Mr. Langfitt represented Federal Receiver David H. Marion, appointed at the request of the SEC and Federal District Court to recover, oversee, and distribute assets to investors defrauded by a Ponzi Scheme operated through Bentley Financial Services, Inc. of Paoli, PA.  The Bentley Scheme was the largest Ponzi Scheme in the United States when it was discovered in 2001.  Mr. Langfitt oversaw the recovery of $360,000,000 for the benefit of defrauded investors.  This represented approximately ninety-three percent of the investors’ principal, one of the largest percentage recoveries ever.  Mr. Langfitt also obtained a verdict against a bank and investment firm for aiding and abetting the scheme.

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Mr. Langfitt has litigated under the Dragonetti Act, the Pennsylvania law that puts in statutory form the common law remedy for wrongful use of civil proceedings.  Mr. Langfitt defended and counterclaimed on behalf of one of the nation’s most successful plaintiff’s law firms against a Fortune 500 company determined to ruin the firm for allegedly filing a series of class actions without a sound basis.  The law firm settled the case on the eve of trial in a public settlement that included a $1,000 donation to the James Beasley School of Law at Temple University.

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Mr. Langfitt has extensive experience litigating in bankruptcy courts and has represented creditors' committees (primarily members of the plaintiffs' asbestos litigation bar) in bankruptcies that were designed by corporations to repackage the corporate assets and liabilities of major entities to evade payment of claims, particularly asbestos claims.  Some of those cases are In Re: Bondex (U.S. District Court, District of Delaware), In Re: Combustion Engineering (U.S. District Court, District of Delaware), and In Re: Nutraquest (U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey).  He also served as lead litigation counsel to Celotex Corporation in wrongful death and personal injury cases brought in multiple states, including personal injury cases resulting from a 2003 fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island.  He has negotiated settlements with USEPA regarding environmental regulations, control equipment, and clean air act issues.

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While an associate at Montgomery, McCracken, Mr. Langfitt was habeas corpus counsel to former death row inmate Clifford Smith and succeeded in overturning the petitioner’s conviction for first degree murder in Smith v. Horn, 120 F.3d 400 (3d Cir. 1997).  

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Outside of his legal practice, Mr. Langfitt is a trustee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.  He was a founding board member of the Mural Arts Program of Philadelphia and served as Board Chair for more than ten years.  He is a former trustee of the Episcopal Academy from which his three children graduated.  He is also the author of the novel Winnabow, a legal thriller available on-line at Amazon Books and here.​​