HOLLY C. PETERSON

An associate at Levy Phillips & Konigsberg, LLP Holly C. Peterson focuses on asbestos, pharmaceutical and personal injury litigation. Prior to joining LPK, Holly litigated products liability, personal injury, and labor and employment cases in New York and New Jersey. She also engaged in appellate practice in these areas.

Holly is licensed to practice law in New York, New Jersey, and Texas. She is also licensed to appear before the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

She is a member of the American, New York State, New York County, New Jersey State, Middlesex, Bergen, and Essex Counties Bar Associations; the New York City Bar Association; the Association of Trial Lawyers of America’s National and New Jersey Chapters; the New York State Trial Lawyers Association; the National Association of Women Lawyers; the New York County Women’s Bar Association; and the Texas State Bar Association.

Holly received her Bachelor of Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Seton Hall University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey. Among the honors she received while pursuing her law degree were the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Outstanding Law Student Award and the Mary Franzese Humanitarian Achievement Award. While in law school, Holly represented clients as a student attorney in the Seton Hall Center for Social Justice’s Civil Litigation Clinic. As a member of the Student Bar Association and Public Interest Network, she held several leadership positions, which included serving on the Honor Council and presiding, for two years, as Justice of Seton Hall’s Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity chapter. She also served as a judicial intern in both the state and federal courts of New Jersey. Following graduation, Holly served as Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable John A. O'Shaughnessy of the Superior Court of New Jersey.