Jessica Priselac
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1159
Fax: +1 215 827 5486
Email: JPriselac@duanemorris.com

Jessica Priselac practices in the area of litigation.

Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Priselac served as a law clerk to the Hon. Nora Barry Fischer of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Priselac is a 2008 graduate of Emory University School of Law, where she was notes and comments editor for the Emory International Law Review, and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University (M.A.) and Dickinson College (B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is proficient in Mandarin.

Representative Matters

• Represented the Pennsylvania Department of Treasury in defeating a putative class action brought by property owners, who were seeking as much as $54 million from the Philadelphia Sheriff's Office in excess proceeds from property auctions.
• Won dismissal with prejudice of lender liability claims against TD Bank in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
• DeMarco v. TD Bank, N.A. - won motion to dismiss for TD Bank in a lender liability suit in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Admissions

• Pennsylvania

Education

• Emory University School of Law, J.D., 2008
  - Notes and Comments Editor, Emory International Law Review
• Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, M.A., 2005
• Dickinson College, B.A., magna cum laude, 1999
  - Phi Beta Kappa

Experience

• Duane Morris LLP
  - Associate, 2012-present
• Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC
  - Associate, 2010-2012
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  - Law Clerk to the Hon. Nora Barry Fischer, 2008-2009

Honors and Awards

• Listed in Pennsylvania Rising Stars, 2013

Selected Publications

• "The State Action Requirement in Alien Tort Statute Claims: Does Sosa Matter?" Emory International Law Review, Fall 2007
• "Final Solutions: Mass Killing and Genocide in the 20th Century (Book Review), SAIS Review, Winter-Spring 2005