Sarina Kaplan is an associate in the Business Litigation and Toxic Torts Practice Groups in the Philadelphia office of Lavin O’Neil Ricci Cedrone & DiSipio. She concentrates her practice on premises liability and asbestos-related toxic torts.

Ms. Kaplan has conducted arbitrations, mediations, depositions and settlement conferences. She has argued before the Superior Courts of New Jersey and the Court of Common Pleas in Pennsylvania, as well as the United States District Court of New Jersey. She has also successfully negotiated and settled numerous cases.

Ms. Kaplan earned her Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey. She was admitted to the National Political Honor Society, Pi Sigma Alpha. She also delivered the Douglass College Commencement Speech after being awarded the Edele Nielsen Prize in Speech.

Ms. Kaplan earned her Juris Doctorate from Rutgers University School of Law, Camden, where she served as Research and Writing Editor of the Journal of Law and Religion. Ms. Kaplan was awarded the Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellowship by the Eagleton Institute of Politics, which involved studying legislative policymaking and working for the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services.

She is admitted to practice in New Jersey and Pennsylvania state courts and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations, and the Burlington County Bar Association.

Prior to joining the Lavin firm, Ms. Kaplan was a defense attorney practicing motor vehicle and commercial premises litigation. Ms. Kaplan also served as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Craig L. Wellerson, J.S.C., Civil Division, Burlington County, New Jersey. While still in law school, she interned at the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General, Division of Law and Public Safety, and the New Jersey Office of Legislative Services.