Deborah Di Filippo

Deborah D. Di Filippo is Senior Counsel in the firm's Construction Practice Group and Transportation & Logistics team. She is experienced in a broad range of commercial and tort litigation matters, including:

• business and commercial litigation,
• defense of professional liability claims against architects and engineers,
• construction litigation,
• products liability, and
• transportation industry litigation.

Deborah has a broad range of skills and significant experience in every aspect of the litigation process, which includes case management, motions practice and expert witness development. She has participated in dozens of mediations, and utilizes early case assessment techniques to evaluate matters and devise strategies for summary resolution.

EXPERIENCE

• Authored successful motion for summary judgment on behalf of an architect in a multi-million dollar construction case
• Authored successful motion for summary judgment in a multi-million dollar transportation case
• Authored successful motion for summary judgment in a multi-million dollar lawsuit involving the False Claims Act
• Authored successful motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit involving a buy-sell provision in a partnership agreement
• Authored successful motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit involving wrongful declination of coverage under an insurance policy

Presentations

• Nursing and Negligence: An Overview from the Defense Perspective, Baptist Memorial Hospital School of Nursing (1994)