Joanna D. Buchanico

Joanna provides legal counsel to insurance carriers throughout the country as well as a variety of self-insured clients, including international hotels and beverage companies, restaurant and retail chains, and large construction and trucking companies. As a member of the Casualty Department, she handles a variety of litigation matters, including premises liability, construction liability, automobile liability and product liability. A significant number of Joanna's cases involve plaintiffs with catastrophic injuries. Joanna successfully defends clients at arbitrations, jury trials and mediations throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Joanna specialized in large, notable antitrust class action and securities cases involving price-fixing and monopolization.

Joanna received her juris doctor from Temple University School of Law's Evening Division while working full time as a litigation paralegal. At Temple, Joanna participated in the school's renowned Integrated Trial Advocacy Program, where she participated, and won, a mock trial. Prior to graduation, Joanna served as a judicial clerk in the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Joanna is licensed in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey State Bars as well as the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the District of New Jersey. She also regularly serves as an arbitrator in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Compulsory Arbitration Program.

In her spare time, Joanna is an avid runner and bocce player.

Honors & awards

Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star
2017-2018

Year joined

2007

Thought Leadership

Marshall Dennehey Announces New Shareholders and Special Counsel

January 4, 2016
Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin is pleased to announce that 14 attorneys were elected shareholders of the firm at the annual shareholders' meeting held December 8 in Philadelphia.

Blame It on the Bank? Defending Mortgage Lenders in Premises Liability Cases

Philadelphia - Headquarters
General Liability
June 1, 2014
By Joanna D. Buchanico, Esq.*Key Points:

Whats Your Active Malfunction? Insured Denied Coverage for Contractual Claim of Poor Workmanship

Philadelphia - Headquarters
Insurance Services
September 1, 2009
Pennsylvania - Insurance Coverage Every day sellers of goods and services negotiate with customers for sales contracts. Defense Digest, Vol. 15, No. 3, September 2009