Buchanico, Joanna D.

Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Year Joined Organization: 2007

Lawyer Overview

Joanna provides legal counsel to insurance carriers throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As an associate in the Casualty Department, she handles a variety of litigation matters, including premises liability, construction liability, automobile liability, and product liability.

Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Joanna was an associate for two years at Bolognese & Associates, where she handled large antitrust class action and securities cases.

Joanna received her Juris Doctorate from Temple University School of Law's Evening Division while working full time at Dechert LLP as a litigation paralegal. Prior to graduation, Joanna served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Seamus P. McCaffrey in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Significant Representative Matters:

• Obtained summary judgment and dismissal of chair supplier client in a case where the Plaintiff was injured after falling from a broken folding chair at a concert.
  
  
• Obtained an arbitration verdict for a client against a plaintiff claiming water damage to her condominium.  The plaintiff claimed damages in excess of the limits of the arbitration.
  
  
• Obtained summary judgment and dismissal of client in a case where Plaintiff was shot in the client's home.

Areas of Practice

• General Liability

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania, 2005
• New Jersey, 2005
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2005
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2008

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Justinian Society
• Pennsylvania Bar Association, Women in the Profession Committee and Young Lawyers Division
• Philadelphia Bar Association

Honors and Awards

• Cambridge Who's Who of Executives, Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Past Employment Positions

• Bolognese & Associates LLP

Education

• Temple University School of Law, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2005
  J.D.
  Honors: "Best Paper" award, Legal Research & Writing
• Widener University, 1999
  B.A.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Member: Alpha Phi Sigma, Pi Gamma Mu, Pi Sigma Alpha
  Major: Criminal Justice

Published Works

• What's Your Active Malfunction? Insured Denied Coverage For Contractual Claims Of Poor Workmanship, Defense Digest, Vol. 15, No. 3, September, 2009

Address

1845 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4797

Phones

(215) 575-2603

Faxes

(215) 575-0856

Emails

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Websites

http://www.marshalldennehey.com