Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Year Joined Organization: 2002

Lawyer Overview

Allison concentrates her practice on matters involving insurance defense litigation including insurance coverage and bad faith issues, product liability, construction litigation, as well as professional liability.

In 1999 Allison graduated from Pennsylvania State University, with a B.A. in Letters, Arts and Sciences and a minor in Business. Following graduation from college, she attended Temple University's James E. Beasley School of Law and was awarded her Juris Doctorate degree in 2002. While at Temple, Allison served as Executive Editor of the Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review from 2001 to 2002. She also served as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Marlene F. Lachman of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas in 2000. Following graduation from law school, she joined Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin as an associate in the firm's Professional Liability Department.

In addition to her legal practice, Allison has served as a panel member on Penn State University Abington, Pennsylvania, Campus' - 7th, 8th and 9th Annual Law School Forums.

Significant Representative Matters

Areas of Practice

• Professional Liability
• Coverage
• Bad Faith Litigation

West Practice Categories

Insurance Law, Bad Faith Insurance

Bar Admissions

• New Jersey, 2002
• Pennsylvania, 2003
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Philadelphia Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

Classes and Seminars

• Documentation in the Premium Audit to the Premium Auditors' Society

Education

• Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2002
  J.D.
• Pennsylvania State University, 1999
  B.A.
  Honors: Dean's List
  Honors: National Honor Society
  Major: Letters, Arts, Sciences-English, Administration of Justice
  Minor: Business

Published Works

• Recent Developments In Pennsylvania Bad Faith Law, PBI CLE Down the Shore, August 2007; Co-authored with William C. Foster
• No Shoes, No Shirt, No Good Faith - No Service, Defense Digest, Vol. 9, No. 3, September, 2003
• Thinking Inside The Box - Pennsylania Supreme Court Upholds The "Four Corners" Rule In Insurance Coverage Disputes, Defense Digest, Vol. 13, No. 1, March, 2007

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2897

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com