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Wyatt A. Lison
Wyatt A. Lison primarily practices in plaintiffs’ general and class action litigation. He was graduated from Allegheny College in 1996 with a B.S. in Biology. Mr. Lison attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctorate in 2001 and was awarded the CALI Excellence for the Future Award. He is co-author of “Gene Conversion Within Regulatory Sequences Generates Maize r Alleles with Altered Gene Expression” (Genetics, Vol. 159, 1727-1740, December 2001).
Mr. Lison is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the American Association for Justice (AAJ). He is admitted to practice in the Courts of Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining SSEM, Mr. Lison worked for several years in the fields of commercial defense litigation, including antitrust law and class-action defense, for several firms, including Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Jones, Day and Associates, and Reed Smith LLP.
Mr. Lison has actively participated in numerous class actions, including: Zeno v. Ford Motor Company, 238 F.R.D. 173 (W.D. Pa. 2006)(charging for upgraded radiators and not providing them); Ross v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 411 F. Supp.2d 571 (W.D. Pa. 2006)(charging non-smoking juveniles smoker life insurance rates); Alleman v. State Farm Life Insurance Company, No. 06-524 (W.D. Pa)(charging non-smoking juveniles smoker life insurance rates); Parks v. Six Flags Theme Parks, Inc. No. FCS 022894 (Solano Co. Superior Ct., CA) (charging season ticket purchasers for a 24 day event it never held); Kaltwasser v. Cingular Wireless, LLC, No. 5:07-CV-00411-JF (N.D. Ca.) (cellular telephone company’s false advertising of a claim of “fewest dropped calls”).