Tressler Continues to Grow: Meet Our Newest Attorneys
Tressler continues to grow. Since the end of 2020, six experienced attorneys joined the firm. Meet our newest attorneys below!
Sarah Hertz Maisel
Associate | Chicago Office
Sarah is an associate in the Insurance Practice Group. She focuses her practice in the areas of insurance coverage analysis and litigation. She has prepared coverage opinions and position letters for insurers and has experience handling a wide variety of coverage issues involving general liability and sexual misconduct liability policies. Sarah also has significant experience in insurance defense litigation including handling matters through mediation, arbitration and trial.
Samantha Rothman
Associate | Chicago Office
Samantha is an associate in the Insurance Practice Group. She focuses her practice in the areas of insurance coverage analysis and litigation. She has prepared coverage opinions and position letters for insurers and handles a wide variety of issues involving general liability and first-party property policies. Samantha also has significant litigation experience and participates in all facets of discovery and trial preparation.
Priya D. Sunkara
Associate | Chicago Office
Priya brings her varied experience in law, science, healthcare and research to the Tressler Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her talents on defense of corporate clients in complex litigation, environmental and toxic tort and product liability matters on both a local and national level.
Alexander T. Givens
Associate | St. Louis Metro Area Office
Alexander is an associate in Tressler’s Litigation Practice Group. Alex focuses his practice on tort defense and insurance coverage, including but not limited to personal injury defense, transportation litigation, subrogation claims, workers’ compensation and coverage analysis. Furthermore, Alex has extensive experience handling business services, contractual and family law disputes for individuals throughout the state of Missouri.
Jennifer Dancy
Senior Counsel | St. Louis Metro Area Office
Jenny is senior counsel in the Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her practice in general defense litigation, personal injury, transportation, property damage, insurance coverage and employment law. Jenny relies upon her vast courtroom, deposition, motion practice, discovery and appellate experience to handle all aspects of litigation. She has effectively litigated cases in counties throughout Missouri and Texas as well as in various federal and appellate courts. Jenny has had positive outcomes through alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and has also had many successful dispositive motions in both state and federal courts.
Jason D. Johnson
Senior Counsel | St. Louis Metro Area Office
Jason focuses his practice on commercial litigation and represents clients in both the prosecution and defense of civil actions in state and federal court with first chair trial experience in both jury trials and bench trials. He also has extensive experience in construction litigation, regularly representing contractors and subcontractors in contractual disputes from the pre-litigation steps of preserving and perfecting mechanics liens to the enforcement and collection of judgments. Jason also is experienced in corporate litigation (including professional corporations) such as shareholder and partner disputes, contested corporate dissolutions and successor liability issues.
ABOUT TRESSLER LLP
Headquartered in Chicago, with eight offices located in five states, Tressler LLP is a national law firm comprised primarily of attorneys who devote their practice to the representation of the insurance industry in coverage analysis and resolution, litigation, underwriting consultation, product development, claims management and reinsurance.
In addition, Tressler has one of the most experienced and multi-faceted government law practices in Illinois, and has attorneys who represent clients in commercial litigation, defense litigation, corporate transactions, employment law and litigation, intellectual property and condominium and common interest community association law. Contact us to learn more.
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