Allison Houser practices complex litigation defense in pharmaceutical, products liability, and toxic tort matters. She is a member of the firm’s team defending against claims in the serial litigation over an EPA-approved herbicide.
Allison has extensive discovery experience, including document review, interrogatories, and requests for production in various state, federal, and multidistrict litigation involving products liability, pharmaceutical, and medical device cases. Her experience includes assisting in preparation for corporate representative and expert witness depositions. Allison worked on a consumer protection case in a nationwide multidistrict litigation involving a major data breach of an international corporation. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a law clerk at the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Environmental Tort Litigation, where she also worked in the discovery phase of a major multidistrict litigation involving PFAS/PFOA exposure.
Following law school, Allison worked as a paralegal at the U.S. Department of Justice, Tax Division, drafting discovery documents, motions, and legal memoranda, and researched and prepared internal memoranda on issues relating to the IRS and FDCPA.
Allison graduated, cum laude, from American University Washington College of Law, where she worked for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, including as Digital Media and Outreach Editor. She graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.A. in History and Political Science.
