Cillo, Julie M.

Shareholder Denyse Clancy focuses on the litigation and appeals process for asbestos cancer cases, primarily mesothelioma.

In 2009, Ms. Clancy won two $8.5 million dollar verdicts in Philadelphia on behalf of two asbestos victims that were included in the top 100 verdicts of the year in the United States and the top 25 largest settlements and awards in Pennsylvania in 2009 by Pennsylvania Law Weekly. In 2007, Ms. Clancy won a substantial verdict from a Galveston jury on behalf of a retired pipefitter suffering from asbestos-mesothelioma.

Ms. Clancy has also achieved substantial appellate victories on behalf of asbestos sufferers and their families. She was lead appellate counsel in a case in which the California Court of Appeals decision upheld a $20 million verdict on behalf of a California asbestos sufferer and her family. In 2010, Ms. Clancy was lead appellate counsel in a case in which the Pennsylvania Court of Appeals upheld a verdict against an asbestos wire manufacturer. In 2011, she was lead appellate counsel in a case in which the California Court of Appeals reversed a summary judgment that was granted in favor of Kaiser Gypsum Company and remanded the case to the trial court.

Ms. Clancy lectures around the country on the issues of asbestos and asbestos cancer. In 2011, she was invited as Visiting Faculty to speak at the Harvard Medical School's course on "Current Concepts and Controversies in Asbestos-Related Disease."

Ms. Clancy graduated Valedictorian of the Southern Methodist University School of Law and was an Editor of the SMU Law Review. Before attending law school, Ms. Clancy earned a master's degree from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Yale University.