Don R. Clemens
Don R. Clemens is a 21-year workers’ compensation practitioner and Co-founding Partner of CLEMENS & VITULLO, P.C. Admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1979, he began his workers’ compensation career as a defense attorney working as Assistant Chief Counsel for the Pennsylvania State Workers' Insurance Fund (SWIF), representing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in workers’ compensation cases against injured workers. Mr. Clemens quickly moved to the other side though in 1984 when he joined George Martin and Martha Hampton at Martin, Clemens & Hampton. Mr. Clemens continued as a partner with the firm when it became Martin, Clemens, Banks, Pond & Lehockey until 1994 when he moved to Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, and established the law offices of Don R. Clemens, the precursor to the present CLEMENS & VITULLO, P.C., again representing Pennsylvania injured workers in cases against employers and insurance companies. Mr. Clemen's solo practice continued until May 1, 2000 when with Patrick Vitullo, a defense attorney of 18 years, they joined to create CLEMENS & VITULLO, P.C.
Mr. Clemens graduated from St. Joseph's University in 1976 with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in history. He attended Northwestern School of Law, Louis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon for two years and finished his legal studies at Villanova University Law School in 1979.
He has lectured extensively on all topics of workers’ compensation and appeared at functions sponsored by the Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and Montgomery County Bar Associations. Mr. Clemens has also lectured at Temple University School of Law on the subject of medical expenses under the 1972 Amendments with his partner, Patrick Vitullo.
Don Clemens understands working families and their concerns. He was born in Roxborough, raised in East Norriton Montgomery County, and attended high school at Bishop Kenrick in Norristown. Don grew up in a union household (his father worked in a paper mill) and his wife currently teaches in the Philadelphia Public School system. Mr. Clemens currently resides in Lafayette Hill, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
Mr. Clemens was admitted to the Bar of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the United States Federal Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Patrick Vitullo
Since 1982, Patrick Vitullo has practiced Pennsylvania workers' compensation law, first in a small plaintiffs' firm in Norristown, then as an insurance defense attorney for Wausau Insurance Companies (1983-1986), and after that as an associate and partner in the Workers' Compensation Department of Labrum & Doak, LLP. From 1992 to 1996, Mr. Vitullo was the Chair of the Workers' Compensation Department at Labrum & Doak. He then became a partner at Weber, Goldstein, Greenberg & Gallagher from January, 1996 to May, 2000, representing insurance carriers and self-insured employers. On May 1, 2000, Clemens & Vitullo, P.C. began business primarily in the representation of injured Pennsylvania workers. Since his return to plaintiff's work, Mr. Vitullo has taken claims against all major (and some minor) insurance companies that do business in Pennsylvania. He has represented injured workers' on complex occupational disease claims, psychiatric claims, orthopedic claims, neuropsychological/closed head trauma cases, and numerous other work injuries.
Mr. Vitullo's received his Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from the University of Notre Dame in May, 1979. He received a bicentennial scholarship for summer studies in political science in Oxford, England in July, 1976. He graduated from Villanova Law School in May, 1982. While at Villanova Law School, Mr. Vitullo authored an article entitled "Secondary Boycotts and the Public Sector," published by Dickinson Law Review in Vol. 87, Winter, 1983 edition. This article was cited in Title 43 of the Public Employee Relations Act (PERA) of Pennsylvania Purdon's Statutes Annotated. The work was also part of the course materials at Villanova Law School's public employee law course, and appeared on national computer data bases in law libraries. Mr. Vitullo has also lectured extensively on workers' compensation law for the Philadelphia and Reading, Pennsylvania, Bars, including as a "keynote speaker" at the 1987 Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Referees' Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. He has taught at Temple University School of Law. Mr. Vitullo has written three legal articles on workers' compensation that were published in the Pennsylvania Law-Journal Reporter (1990, 1993) and Pennsylvania Law Weekly (1998) on Act 57 Amendment to workers' compensation; medical claims after the 1993 Act 44 amendment; and medical expense litigation under the 1972 Amendments. He currently is completing an article involving the Utilization Review medical expense provisions and attorney fee requests.
Mr.Vitullo is the grandson of an Italian coal miner (see photo below)who worked in the Oklahoma and Pittsburgh coal mines from 1909 to 1960. Pasquale Vitullo's 1948 United Mine Workers Local 6160 button with the portrait of famous labor leader John L. Lewis reminds our clients of our heritage and commitment to injured workers. Mr. Vitullo has worked labor positions with trucking firms and coal companies in Western Pennsylvania from 1969 to 1980 before studying the law.
Mr. Vitullo is a member of the Pennsylvania state and Montgomery County bars. He is also admitted to practice in the U.S. Western and Eastern federal district courts of Pennsylvania.
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