Leon Aussprung, MD

With a focus on medical malpractice, catastrophic injury, and death cases, Dr. Aussprung's law practice handles a wide variety of cases, including cerebral palsy, birth injury, brain injury, auto accidents, death, premises liability, construction and work accidents, nursing home neglect, and medical product liability.  Leon Aussprung is the founder and a partner at the Law Office of Leon Aussprung MD, LLC.  He has been included in the top 5 percent of the 39,000 attorneys in Pennsylvania for the past 19 years and has worked on numerous multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements. He was named by Super Lawyers as one of the top 100 attorneys in Pennsylvania in 2019, as well as one of the top 100 attorneys in Philadelphia in 2018 and 2019.In 2024 alone, Dr. Aussprung obtained multiple medical malpractice settlements, including settlements of $1,950,000, $1,600,000, $950,000, $750,000, $650,000, $475,000, $325,000, and $300,000 for a variety of cases, including stroke, paralysis, infection/sepsis, epidural abscess, spinal cord injury, delay in cancer diagnosis, chiropractic manipulation, spinal compression, surgical error, gastrointestinal bleeding, and death.  Dr. Aussprung also recently obtained a $15 million settlement for a workplace injury involving a fall and $7,200,000 for a workplace injury resulting in a below-th-knee amputation.   He has litigated cases against the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP), Jefferson University Hospital, Hershey Medical Center, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, UPMC, York Hospital, Lancaster General Hospital, Lehigh Valley Hospital, Allegheny General Hospital, and Indiana Regional Medical Center, as well as many others throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. One of his cases ended up being the largest death case verdict in Lackawanna County, with a $2.7 million verdict for the family of a woman who died after an elective surgery.  He won a $2,200,000 verdict in a delay of diagnosis of breast cancer case.Dr. Aussprung has a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Before attending law school, he earned a bachelor’s from the University of Virginia and graduated from Jefferson Medical College as a medical doctor. He was a board-certified physician in pediatrics for 14 years and has practiced law for over 20 years. After his graduation from law school, he also obtained a further post-graduate legal degree, LL.M., in trial advocacy from the Temple University Beasley School of Law.Dr. Aussprung is a Fellow of the American College of Legal Medicine and served on its Board of Governors for 6 years. He is also a founding member of the American Academy of Legal Medicine and is the current Treasurer and serves on its Executive Committee.  He is also a member of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association.  He is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, the United States District Court for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Pennsylvania, all the Courts of Pennsylvania New Jersey.