Mr. Knoell graduated from Ursinus College in 1973 and Villanova Law School in 1976. He has practiced with the firm since 1976. His areas of particular concentration include municipal defense, medical malpractice, hospital defense, and employment discrimination. He has defended numerous municipalities in southeast Pennsylvania in trials of civil rights and discrimination matters involving police, labor, and zoning issues. Mr. Knoell’s litigation experience has included hundreds of jury trials since 1977, over 160 of which have gone to verdict in the Federal Courts, Common Pleas Courts of Philadelphia, Montgomery, Chester, Delaware, Berks, Bucks and Lehigh counties, all Pennsylvania appellate courts, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Montgomery Bar Association and on its Judiciary Committee. Mr. Knoell’s experience as co-chair of the Montgomery County Medical / Legal Committee included informal resolution of professional disputes between physicians and attorneys. His twelve-year tenure as a civil service commissioner for Lower Merion Township involved extensive interaction with police and municipal officials and presiding over civil service hearings. Mr. Knoell is a member of the Pennsylvania chapter of the American College of Trial Lawyers and American Board of Trial Advocates. He has delivered seminars to physicians on medical malpractice avoidance and to municipal officials on municipal immunity defenses. His personal interests have included membership in the Long Beach Island Fishing Club, Radnor Hunt Club, and the Willistown and Brandywine Conservancies. He is the current President of the Aqua Beach Condominium Association. He is married and has three children.

Representative Matters

• Secured a defense verdict for an ENT in a medical malpractice case involving allegations of permanent hemiparesis due to delayed emergence from anesthesia following a routine tonsillectomy.
• Achieved early dismissals and a defense verdict in cases alleging unnecessary coronary artery stenting.
• Successfully prevailed on the application of the MCARE Act’s Statute of Repose, establishing case law at the appellate level.
• Obtained defense jury verdicts and binding arbitration awards in anesthesia, GI, and orthopedic defense cases, as well as multiple municipal defense cases in recent years.