Current Employment Position(s)

Shareholder

Year Joined Organization: 1988

Lawyer Overview

Niki T. Ingram serves as the Assistant Director of the Workers' Compensation Department, where she assumes responsibility for some 35 lawyers throughout 10 of the firm's offices, and is a member of the firm's Board of Directors. Since 1988 when Niki joined the firm, she has devoted all of her practice to workers' compensation matters. As well, she has served as the Chair of the Workers' Compensation Client Development Practice and in that capacity supervised the client development activities of the firm's workers' compensation department. She is also the Chairperson of the firm's Human Relations Committee and helped develop the firm's Human Relations Policy.

In her career to date, Niki has handled hundreds of personal injury defense cases and thousands of workers' compensation cases. She has represented a variety of clients, including self-insureds, insurance companies, employers, as well as governmental agencies. Niki frequently uses multiple experts in defending cases, including a variety of physicians and vocational experts.

As an undergraduate, Niki attended and graduated with distinction from Smith College with an A.B. in Psychology. She then received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Niki has worked in the public interest sector, for the government, and in the private sector.

Niki worked as a Chief Assistant City Solicitor in the Major Trials Division for the City Solicitor's office for the City of Philadelphia. While working for the City, she tried jury cases to verdict in both federal and state court. After leaving that office, she became a member of the in-house staff of PMA Insurance Company, where she continued to do liability work and started handling workers' compensation cases.

In addition to her many firm responsibilities, Niki is a past member of the Investigative Division of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Committee on Judicial Selection and Retention. She has also served as the chairperson of the Workers' Compensation and Employment Liability Law Committee of the American Bar Association's Tort and Insurance Practice Section and on the American Bar Association's Survey Committee of the Workers' Compensation and Employment Law Liability Committee. She has also served as the co-chairperson of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Section and has been a member of the Nominating Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association. Niki was awarded the Sadie T. Alexander Award for Distinguished Alumni by the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Niki has spoken at national conferences of the American Bar Association, the American Trial Lawyers Association, SEAK, and at national self-insured conferences. She has also lectured frequently at state and local conferences on legal issues and related topics. Niki is now a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and has been awarded an "AV" rating by Martindale-Hubbell. She has been named as one of the Top 50 Female Lawyers in Philadelphia, as well as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer for four consecutive years.

Niki is a member of the Editorial Board of Philadelphia Lawyer Magazine. She has served on the Board of Directors of Delaware Futures, which is an organization dedicated to helping disadvantaged young men and women through high school and in getting accepted to college. She has also been a director of the Smith College Alumnae Association's Board of Directors. She currently volunteers for Friendship House and takes part in numerous church committees.

Areas of Practice

• Workers' Compensation

West Practice Categories

Workers' Compensation Law

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. Supreme Court

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Insurance Women of the Main Line
• National Bar Association-Women's Division
• Pennsylvania Claims Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association
• Smith College Alumnae Association Board of Directors

Honors and Awards

• AV Peer Review Rating by LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyer, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 (Top 50 Female Lawyers, 2005, 2006)
• Distinguished Alumni Award by the BALSA section of the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Education

• University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
  J.D.
• Smith College
  A.B., With Distinction
  Major: Psychology

Published Works

• Awaiting The Caso Decision, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Winter, 2004
• 10 Questions For Judge Jacqueline Allen, The Philadelphia Lawyer, Fall, 2004
• Injury Outside The Workplace Not Employer's Responsibility, The Legal Intelligencer, 04-26, 2001
• Stopping Temporary Benefits For The Retired Worker, The Legal Intelligencer, 04-26, 2001
• Modified Job Must Meet Physician's Restrictions: Good Faith Offer To Claimant Required, The Legal Intelligencer, 07-26, 2001
• Second Termination Petition Not Precluded By Initial Filing, The Legal Intelligencer, 09-27, 2001
• Commonwealth Court Arms Employers In Good-Faith-Job-Offer Refusal Cases, The Legal Intelligencer, 11-29, 2001
• Managed Care Integration with Workers' Compensation, Workers' Compensation (PSIA Newsletter), Vol. 2, No. 5, 1996
• Stroke Cases: They are Defensible, Counterpoint, 07, 1993
• Tort and Insurance Law Journal, American Bar Association

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2704

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

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Websites

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