ila B. Baldwin has a wide range of legal experience, having worked with four law firms, the Philadelphia Office of the District Attorney and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Baldwin most recently worked at the Philadelphia office of Reed Smith, an international law firm with more than 1,300 lawyers in 21 cities worldwide, where she handled pharmaceutical litigation on behalf of a major corporate client.
At Kline & Specter her practice is focused on personal injury cases, including medical malpractice, product liability and premises liability. She previously worked on class action cases with the firm.
Most recently, Baldwin was co-counsel with Shanin Specter in the Bridgeport fire case, which concluded in a preliminarily approved settlement of $35 million in April 2008. The settlement will benefit more than 100 businesses and individuals which suffered losses in the fire that destroyed the Continental Business Center in Bridgeport, Pa. in 2001. (See Bridgeport)
At the SEC, where Baldwin was assigned to the Division of Enforcement as part of a summer honors program while studying law, she worked with government agency enforcement attorneys investigating, among other things, the role of investment advisers in fraudulent schemes.
She later was an attorney with the Philadelphia district attorney’s office, where she handled preliminary felony hearings and misdemeanor trials in municipal court before joining a Philadelphia law firm, where she worked in the field of complex litigation. Baldwin had prior experience with securities law as a law clerk with two other Philadelphia law firms.
Baldwin earned a dual J.D./M.B.A. from the Temple University Beasley School of Law. There she was awarded the Beasley Scholarship and two awards for Outstanding Oral Advocacy. While at Temple she studied international law in Rome. She was a member of the International Law Society and the Woman’s Law Caucus.
Baldwin earned her bachelor’s degree in economics from Pennsylvania State University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of the Schreyer Honors College.
She is a member of the board of directors of The Women’s Therapy Center, a Philadelphia non-profit organization that helps provide mental health care to low-income patients. Baldwin, who speaks Italian and Spanish, previously worked as a volunteer in Philadelphia tutoring English as a second language through the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy.
Baldwin is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey bar associations and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Associations.
