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Dawn Dezii
Partner
Office: Mount Laurel, NJ
D: (856) 727-6005
C: (609) 280-6580
Dawn is the head of the New Jersey Asbestos/Toxic Tort Department. Her areas of concentration include litigation involving general and subcontractor liability, premises liability, and products liability.
Attorney Headshot
Dawn Dezii
Partner
Mount Laurel, NJ
D: (856) 727-6005
C: (609) 280-6580

Dawn is the head of the New Jersey Asbestos/Toxic Tort Department. Her areas of concentration include litigation involving general and subcontractor liability, premises liability, and products liability. Dawn also handles matters involving underground storage tanks, waste sites, administrative actions with the New Jersey Department of Environment Protection, lead paint, mold, formaldehyde, benzene, rodenticide and MTBE. Dawn is National Coordinating Counsel for a large multinational construction and engineering corporation, and handles all of its asbestos matters across the country. She is also the Editor of the Mt Laurel Environmental and Toxic Tort Litigation Newsletter.

Areas of Practice

Education

  • Rutgers University School of Law (J.D., cum laude)
  • Lycoming College (B.A., cum laude)

Bar & Court Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Professional Affiliations

  • New Jersey Inns of Court Graduate
  • New Jersey Defense Association
  • Camden County Bar Association
  • Past member of Middlesex County Asbestos Advisory Committee
  • Director of Public Safety Oaklyn, NJ
  • Director of Community Affairs Oaklyn NJ
  • Volunteer Habitat for Humanity
  • Volunteer St Barnards Project, St Barnards Parish LA
  • American Legion Post 84
  • Past President Family Support Group First 111th Company, Pennsylvania National Guard
  • JIF Insurance Fund Administrator

Honors

  • AV Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rated
  • American Jurisprudence Award
    • 17th Annual Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims and Litigation
    • 13th, 14th, 15th, and 18th, National Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims & Litigation
    • American Conference Institute’s 12th Annual Advanced Forum on Asbestos Claims & Litigation- Topic-Forum Non Conveniens: Best Defense Strategy Practice When Seeking a Different Forum
    • 11th Annual Advance Forum on Litigating and Managing Asbestos Claims, American Conference Institute
    • Asbestos Litigation-Legal and Medical Aspects, Allstate/Northbrook Insurance Co
    • Automobile Liability, Pepco Holdings Inc.
    • Litigating Cross-claims in Asbestos Litigation, Middlesex County Joint Defense Medical Group
    • Current Trends in Toxic Torts, Resolute Mid-Atlantic Division
    • Liabilities of Dissolved Corporations
    • Benzene Litigation
    • What is an ILO Chart
    • Bankrupt Trust Issues in Asbestos Litigation
    • Lead Litigation Handbook