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About Alison J. Russell
Alison J. Russell is a dedicated attorney with a client-driven practice focused on construction and workplace accidents, product defects, negligent security, and other catastrophic injury cases. Her tireless work ethic has led her to successfully represent clients who have been injured following the worst days of their lives. Alison prides herself on connecting with clients and forming close and trusting relationships with them. These relationships form the solid foundation on which she will advocate to a successful resolution.
Prior to joining Saltz Mongeluzzi Bendesky, Alison was an associate at a leading regional defense firm where she concentrated on medical malpractice actions and general litigation matters. Additionally, she practiced in the plaintiff’s personal injury group where she successfully litigated product liability, premises liability, and motor vehicle cases. Alison has extensive experience in all aspects of litigating a case.
Alison is very active in the Philadelphia legal community. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and the Future Leader Section of PAJ, as well as a member of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, and the Lawyer’s Club of Philadelphia. She is passionate about mentorship of future generations and volunteers with Real World Leaders, the PAJ Diverse Mentoring Initiative, and is a member of SMB’s Summer Law Clerk Committee.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky
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The families of 98 people killed in the June 2021 Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, recovered over $1 billion through a class settlement run by a court-appointed Plaintiffs' Steering Committee, with final approval reached in under a year.
After Amtrak Train 188 derailed in Philadelphia in May 2015, killing eight and injuring more than 200, Kline & Specter's Thomas R. Kline led the plaintiffs' negotiations that produced a $265 million settlement fund for the victims.
A Pennsylvania-record $227 million settlement resolved claims brought by 19 victims of the June 2013 Center City building collapse, in which an improperly braced wall fell during demolition and crushed the adjoining Salvation Army thrift store, killing seven people.
A Montgomery County jury awarded the estate of Ellen Gregory Robb $124.26 million in November 2014 against her husband, a former Penn economics professor who killed her in 2006 and pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter. Of the total, $100 million was punitive damages. The proceeds were for the couple's daughter, the estate's beneficiary. The award stood after Robb's post-trial challenge, though collection was limited to his retirement and investment assets.
Four construction workers were killed and more than 30 injured when five floors of a parking garage under construction at the Tropicana Casino Resort in Atlantic City collapsed in October 2003, leading to what attorneys described as the largest construction-accident settlement in U.S. history at that time.
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