More Notable Victories

– $5.2 Million settlement for a young woman who suffered severe physical and emotional injuries after being run over by a garbage truck. (served as co-counsel).

– $4.6 Million settlement in a medical malpractice lawsuit involving severe, permanent, and profoundly disabling injury to a child at birth due to the physicians’ failure to promptly deliver the child despite evidence of fetal distress. (served as co-counsel).

– $3 Million verdict for a carpenter who sustained serious and permanent injuries after a temporary staircase on a construction site collapsed underneath him (served as co-counsel).

– $3 Million settlement of behalf of the Estates of a young woman and her unborn child who died nine hours after being discharged from the hospital when her medical providers failed to recognize the signs and symptoms of an abdominal bleed. (served as co-counsel).

– Seven-Figure recovery in a North Central Pennsylvania county for a family of a teenage girl who was tragically killed after a train struck the car she was a passenger in, as it drove through a railroad crossing that did not have automatic crossing gates. (served as co-counsel).

About Ms. Kwak

Ms. Kwak was raised in northeastern Pennsylvania, the eldest of three daughters in a household where the dinner table routinely featured a unique blend of perspectives: her father, a personal injury attorney, and her mother, a labor and delivery nurse. It was an upbringing that offered an early (and unfiltered) look at both the medical and legal systems and, ultimately, shaped her path toward representing individuals and families in complex injury cases. Her family encouraged thoughtful—and often spirited—dinner table debates about the law, politics, and current events, where strong opinions were welcomed but rarely left unchallenged. 

Ms. Kwak earned her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Widener University School of Law in May 2012. She then served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Steven J. Polansky in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Camden Vicinage, Family Part, where she gained firsthand insight into judicial decision-making.

She received her undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Northeastern University in 2009, earning a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a minor in Law, Policy, and Society. During that time, she spent a semester in London interning in the U.K. Parliament for Member of Parliament William Olner and studying at the London School of Economics through the Hansard Society.

Ms. Kwak lives in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia with her husband, Jeff (also a lawyer), their young son, Jack, and their dog, Chief Justice Earl Warren—known at home simply as “CJ,” who, despite the title, runs a very strict snack-based jurisprudence.

Professional Achievements

While in law school, Ms. Kwak was an active member of the Moe Levine Trial Advocacy Society and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Society. She was also recognized with pro bono distinction as part of the Martin Luther King Semester of Service. During this time, she worked for over a year with the Chester County District Attorney’s Office, where she was granted limited practice certification.

Ms. Kwak has been recognized for her excellence in litigation by numerous professional organizations. In 2017, she was named to the Top 40 Under 40 by The National Trial Lawyers for Civil Plaintiffs. Beginning in 2018, she was selected to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Stars list (an honor reserved for a small percentage of attorneys under 40) and she has been selected annually since. Since 2025, she has been selected to the New Jersey Rising Stars list.

She is a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the Philadelphia Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.