About Stacy
The Law Office of Stacy N. Lilly is a sole proprietorship. Stacy is an experienced commercial litigator, having most recently practiced with an AmLaw 100 law firm.
Stacy has substantial litigation experience including written discovery, depositions, expert retention, and preparing for and participating in settlement conferences, mediations, arbitrations, and trials. She has managed numerous cases from start to finish by way of settlement, dispositive motion, trial, or appeal. Her legal writing experience is extensive and Stacy also has solid courtroom experience. In addition to numerous bench trials, Stacy has tried solo jury trials to verdict, and assisted as second chair in many others.
Stacy’s experience extends to managing and advising clients with respect to all aspects of insurance coverage matters, including preparation of coverage analyses, reservation of rights and declination letters, dispositive motions, and appellate briefs for a wide variety of claims including breach of contract, declaratory judgment, bad faith, regulatory estoppel, fraud, and rescission, among others. She has been responsible for extensive research and writing with regard to these complex issues and the day-to-day management of cases.
Practices
- Commercial Litigation
- Insurance Litigation and Coverage
Education
- University of Toledo College of Law (2000), J.D. cum laude
- University of Toledo Law Review, Assistant Executive Editor
- Ohio University (1997) B.A. Political Science cum laude
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- Ohio
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
Publications
- "Is the Health Care Reform Law Constitutional? Attorneys General Challenge the Insurance Coverage Mandate for U.S. Citizens" The Philadelphia Lawyer, Summer 2010
- "Freelance Attorneys: A Unique Alternative for Managing Your Work and Increasing Your Profit" Pennsylvania Bar Association, Solo and Small Firm Practice Section, Spring 2010
- “Leadership Alliance for Women: A Case Study for the Implementation and Development of a Successful Women’s Initiative” The Legal Intelligencer, May 19, 2008
Professional Memberships & Accomplishments
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- Philadelphia Bar Association
- Defense Research Institute
- Animal Legal Defense Fund
- IADC Trial Academy, Stanford Law School, 2005
- National Trial Advocacy College at the University of Virginia School of Law, 2006
Representative Commercial Litigation Experience
- Authored appellate briefs that successfully overturned $2 million jury verdict. Prime Medica Assocs. v. Valley Forge Ins. Co., 970 A.2d 1149 (Pa. Super. 2009).
- Obtained federal district court ruling that holding company’s corporate veil may not be pierced for liability of its wholly owned subsidiaries and dismissal of conversion claim of allegedly overcharged premiums. Bestway Systems, Inc. v. American International Group, Inc., Case No. 1:04-cv-01374, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26949 (N.D. Ohio Nov. 8, 2005).
- Principal author of motion for summary judgment regarding the application of general liability policy’s sudden and accidental pollution exclusion on the issues of regulatory estoppel, promissory estoppel, and trade usage. Prepared outline for oral argument on motion, and drafted oppositions to motion to certify immediate appeal, motion for reconsideration, and motion to amend order. Also responsible for preparing motion to strike jury demand and motion to bifurcate trial.
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Representative Insurance Coverage Experience
- Analysis of potential exposure for numerous long-tail products liability claims, including choice of law, whether injured claimants alleged “bodily injury” during a policy period caused by an “occurrence” as to fall within general liability policy’s insuring agreements, potential application of the contractual liability exclusion, allocation of defense and indemnity among triggered policies, and late notice defense.
- Analysis of coverage and potential exposure for claim made by insured directors and officers, including whether claim was made and reported during policy period as required by terms of D&O policy, whether claim alleged a “Wrongful Act” and “Damages” as defined by the policy, potential application of the personal profit and fraudulent acts exclusions, and insurer’s duty to advance defense costs.
- Analysis of coverage provided by Employee Benefit Plan Fiduciary Liability Policy for claims made by U.S. Department of Labor against insured company, including whether claim was first made and reported during policy, potential application of the policy’s profit or advantage, willful violation of statute, prior or pending, and failure to fund exclusions, and whether coverage was precluded by the insured’s breach of its duty to cooperate.
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