RUBEN HONIK

Mr. Honik is a founding shareholder and senior trial lawyer in the Philadelphia law firm of Golomb & Honik, P.C. The firm’s practice is limited to the representation of injured plaintiffs in diverse individual and class action litigation and maintains offices in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Mr. Honik was co-lead class counsel in the case of Cullen v. Whitman Education Corp., et al., a consumer class action lawsuit brought in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania which resulted in the single largest settlement ($7.3 million) against a national technical trade school which operated a sham educational program and defrauded its students.

Mr. Honik is currently serving as class counsel and lead trial counsel in Pohl v. NGK Metals, Inc., a medical monitoring, class action lawsuit brought on behalf of the residents of the City of Reading, PA against a beryllium manufacturing plant which polluted the air for over 50 years causing exposures to this deadly toxin. Mr. Honik also represents many individual residents and workers of the beryllium facility in personal injury claims brought in federal court. Mr. Honik is a founding member of a national plaintiffs beryllium litigation group.

Mr. Honik is also class counsel and lead trial counsel in McWilliams, et al. v. General Chemical Corporation, a downwind toxic chemical case in which individual and class action, medical monitoring relief is sought on behalf of hundreds of chemical workers exposed to sulfur dioxide and sulfur trioxide gases. This litigation is pending in the Court of Common Pleas in Delaware County, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Honik has represented hundreds of lead poisoned children in the City of Philadelphia and elsewhere in claims for brain damage resulting from exposure to lead-based containing paint in residential settings. A frequent lecturer in trial advocacy for pediatric lead poisoning cases, Mr. Honik has also testified before the Pennsylvania Legislature on lead litigation, the public health risk of lead paint and legislative responses thereto.

A past president of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, Mr. Honik was a former editor of The Verdict, the association's monthly publication. Mr. Honik currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association (PaTLA) and is the organization’s current parliamentarian. He is slated to become a future president of PaTLA. As an ongoing member and co-chair of numerous PaTLA committees, Mr. Honik currently co-chairs PaTLA’s education committee and is a former trustee of LAWPAC. Mr. Honik is a frequent lecturer in trial advocacy and substantive legal areas affecting personal injury practice and class actions.

Mr. Honik reeived his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law.