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Progress Isn’t Perfect: Emerging Professional and Technological Risks Facing Contractors and Design Professionals
September 2025 - Professionally Speaking
Casie Salvadore represents businesses and individuals in all aspects of civil litigation. Her practice focuses on the defense of claims involving general liability, professional liability, product liability, construction defect and accident, premises liability, and transportation/trucking liability. Casie’s experience includes handling insurance coverage disputes, as well as drafting and reviewing contracts.
Casie began her career at Wilson Elser as a law clerk in the Philadelphia office during law school. Previously, as a law student, Casie honed her research and writing skills as a property law research assistant, represented clients as a student attorney in the Clinic for Asylum, Refugee & Emigrant Services, and received the law school’s Dorothy Day Award in recognition of her outstanding achievement in pro bono service. Her interest in pursuing a legal career was piqued prior to law school, working as a legal assistant in the civil litigation unit at the Wisconsin Department of Justice.
Wendy Testa (Partner-Philadelphia, PA) and Casie Salvadore (Associate-Philadelphia, PA) secured dismissal for a title agent client by prevailing on preliminary objections to the complaint based on lack of personal jurisdiction. The action, pending in the Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, involved a dispute arising from the sale of a Florida condominium and subsequent wire fraud of the condominium sale proceeds by a third party. Plaintiff / condominium owner was a trust formed in Pennsylvania. The only connection to Pennsylvania was the formation of the trust in this state. All other aspects were in Florida. Wendy and Casie successfully argued to the court that our client had no reasonable expectation to be sued in Pennsylvania due to a complete lack of contacts with the Commonwealth. The firm client, a Florida licensed title agent located and doing business in Florida only, was merely involved in the closing of a property located in Florida and had no relationship with or duty to the Pennsylvania trust / condominium owner. The court’s decision to grant preliminary objections for lack of personal jurisdiction and dismissing our Florida-based client underscores the importance of challenging jurisdictional overreach.
Wendy D. Testa and Casie A. Salvadore