Wisler, Scot M.

Haley concentrates her practice on professional liability and insurance coverage claims, focusing primarily on defending claims brought against architects, engineers, surveyors, real estate agents and brokers. Haley also defends insurers in insurance coverage matters. Haley is experienced in  all stages of litigation, including presuit investigation, discovery, alternative dispute resolution, dispositive motion practice, trial, appellate brief drafting and appellate argument.
 
Before joining Marshall Dennehey, Haley was a shareholder with a Tampa, FL law firm where she practiced for over eight years. Haley represented a wide array of clients, including design professionals, real estate agents and brokers, self-insured corporations as well as insurers. Much of her practice focused on a broad range of commercial litigation disputes, construction industry claims, professional liability matters, insurance defense, coverage actions, as well as appellate advocacy.

In 2003, Haley earned her juris doctor from the American University , Washington College of Law. During her time in law school, Haley worked as an extern in the Department of Justice, Office of the Solicitor General, under Solicitor General, Theodore Olson. There, she assisted  attorneys in editing and finalizing briefs, submitted on behalf of the United States of America, to the United States Supreme Court and various Federal Courts of Appeals.  Also while in law school, Haley was selected two years in a row, as a Dean's Fellow for the legal research and writing program. Here, she assisted professors in teaching legal research and writing skills to first year law students. 

Haley is actively committed to non-profit endeavors, both in the legal and local communities. She holds a leadership position in the ABA Section of Litigation Membership & Marketing Committee. Beginning in 2009, Haley served on this committee, which works on marketing and retention initiatives of the Section of Litigation, which currently has close to 60,000 members. Additionally, Haley served as Editor-in-Chief of The Woman Advocate, a quarterly newsletter published by the ABA Section of Litigation. During her tenure, the newsletter won the award for "Best Newsletter" for the 2008-2009 bar year and the "Honorable Mention" award for the 2010-2011 bar year. 

Haley serves on the board of directors for the Alpha House of Tampa (an organization which empowers pregnant and parenting women in crisis). Here she led the young professional arm of the Alpha House, where under her leadership, the team doubled the amounts collected through fundraising over all prior years. Since 2008, Haley has been a member of Network of Executive Women and has served on their board since 2010. She is currently president-elect for 2012. Haley is also a member of the Hillsborough County Bar Association. Previously, Haley was a member of the Hillsborough Association of Women Lawyers and volunteered for Bay Area Legal Services.

Significant Representative Matters

• Argued in the Second District Court of Appeals for Florida, resulting in the Court's affirmance of dismissal of claims, with prejudice, against her clients, an engineering firm and individual engineer.
  
  
• Successfully drafted and argued summary judgment motion in professional malpractice action brought against her real estate agent and broker client. Obtained summary judgment on the claims brought against her clients, including misrepresentation claims, in Florida state court.
  
  
• Successfully argued and obtained summary judgment in favor of real estate client who was sued for various claims, including negligence, misrepresentation and rescission