About Allie Farris

Allie Farris is an Attorney at Marko Law Firm, practicing as an associate to Jonathan R. Marko on personal injury cases including civil rights, employment, premises liability, wrongful death, and complex torts.

Farris earned her Juris Doctor cum laude from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law on a Dean's Scholarship and her Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice with a Sociology minor from Oakland University. She is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Farris joined Marko Law as a law clerk in April 2024 and contributed to multiple multimillion-dollar verdicts within her first three months. During law school she served on the Law Review Executive Board, was 2024-2025 Symposium Director, and was a Legal Writing Teaching Assistant for two years.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Marko Law Firm

These results are credited to Marko Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

An Oakland County jury awarded $896.5 million to a young boy who was struck by a prototype test car during a student field trip at a Continental test track, reported as the largest verdict in Michigan history. The award is pre-appeal: post-trial motions are pending, Continental never made a settlement offer, and the amount could still be reduced.

Oakland County Circuit Court, Michigan · 2026Car AccidentsRead the full story →

A Detroit federal jury awarded former Michigan inmate Kohchise Jackson $307.6 million after the state's for-profit prison health contractor refused to pay for the $919 surgery that would have reversed his colostomy.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan (Detroit) · 2026Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →
$76.7 millionVerdictTop 20 in Michigan · #8

An Oakland County jury found Kroger solely liable and awarded HVAC technician Brian Mierendorf and his wife $76.7 million after a failed R-22 refrigerant line at a Bloomfield Township store burned and destroyed most of both his hands.

Oakland County Circuit Court, MI · 2025Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$32.7 millionVerdictTop 20 in Michigan · #12

On September 11, 2026, an Oakland County jury awarded about $32.7 million to a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury and back and leg injuries when a prototype Ford Mustang crashed into spectators at a Continental Automotive Systems test track in Auburn Hills in 2023. Continental admitted liability, so the trial decided damages only. It was the third trial from the same crash, and the company made no settlement offer in any of them.

Oakland County Circuit Court, Pontiac, Michigan · 2026Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$32.4 millionVerdictTop 20 in Michigan · #13

An Oakland County jury awarded Brian Iminski $32,375,683 after a First Student school bus ran a red light and T-boned his work pickup, leaving him with brain and back injuries.

Oakland County Circuit Court, MI · 2026Car AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Oakland University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Michigan
State Bar of U.S. Supreme Court
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
State Bar of U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
State Bar of U.S. District Court, District of Columbia
State Bar of U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Detroit firms

McKeen & Associates, PC
McKeen & Associates, PC
$130.57 million · $130.5 Million Verdict for Infant Brain Damage After Beaumont Hospital Delayed Code Blue
Ven Johnson Law, PLC
Ven Johnson Law, PLC
$22.6 Million Verdict for Port Trucker Left Permanently Disabled After On-the-Job Crash
Michigan Auto Law
Michigan Auto Law
$3.5 million · Jackson County Jury Awards $3.5 Million to Brain-Injured Driver in Fairley v. Schiber Truck Case

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.