Honors and Awards:

• Kline is listed in Best Lawyers in America and in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. He is AV-rated in Martindale-Hubbell and is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, which limits membership to 500 attorneys in the United States recommended by their peers and trial judges for outstanding skills and abilities as well as character and integrity. Kline was also selected for the 2007 edition of the World's Leading Product Liability Lawyers.

Bar/Professional Activity:

• He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and serves on the Board of Advisors of the Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law and the Board of Advisors of WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania public radio station.
• Kline is regional chairman of the Federal Judicial Nominating Commission for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The 14-member citizen merit selection panel screens applicants for the federal bench and makes recommendations to the two senators from Pennsylvania, who in turn recommend candidates to the president. Kline has been a member of the committee since 1989 and its chairman since 1998. (read article)
• Kline is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New York. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and other federal courts.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Kline is a frequent lecturer at law schools, medical schools and continuing legal education programs. He has taught at many institutions from Temple University Beasley School of Law to Jefferson Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Kline has also taught complex litigation at The National Judicial College in Reno, Nev. And he has lectured to the Conference of State Trial Judges. In 2003, Kline was featured in the acclaimed 2003 Masters on Trial seminar. And Kline is the producer, director, writer and performer in the acclaimed one-man show "Trial As Theatre (TM)" as well as The Modern Trial and Tom Kline on Technology. He is the author of "Robert C. Grier: Jacksonian Unionist" and is the author of numerous other published articles. He recently wrote an Op-Ed piece for The Philadelphia Inquirer titled "Immunity Is Bad Medicine."

Educational Background:

• graduated from Albright College, where he has been honored with the school's Distinguished Alumni award. Kline began his professional career not as a lawyer but as a middle school teacher, teaching sixth grade social studies. He attended Lehigh University, where he earned a master's degree in American History and completed all of the Ph.D. course work. Kline then attended Duquesne University School of Law, where he graduated with the school's Distinguished Student Award and just this year received its Distinguished Alumni Award (see more). He went on to work as law clerk to Pennsylvania Supreme Court for Justice Thomas W. Pomeroy.