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Attorney Profile
Holli K. Archer
Areas of Practice
Contact Info
Overview
Holli is a member of the Health Care Department, concentrating her practice on the defense of health care practitioners and medical providers against all manner of medical malpractice suits. Her clients include physicians, dentists, podiatrists, chiropractors, cardiologists, and their practice groups. Her experience also includes representing hospitals in cases involving complex issues of medical malpractice, in addition to slip and fall suits.
Holli handles licensure matters before State Boards of Medicine and Dentistry. In addition, she has argued numerous pleadings and motions on behalf of her clients.
While attending law school at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law, Holli held various leadership positions for the Association of Women Law Students, including social chair and vice president. Prior to joining Marshall Dennehey, Holli worked for a regional defense litigation law firm where she was selected to serve as a member of the Committee for Diversity and Inclusion.
Results
Second chaired a trial where a defense verdict was obtained in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on behalf of a podiatrist. The plaintiff filed a medical malpractice action claiming that the podiatrist removed too much bone from the plaintiff’s right fifth toe during an arthroplasty procedure. The jury trial lasted three days and the jury returned a verdict in approximately two hours.
Secured dismissals for multiple dentists and their practice groups in malpractice cases brought by plaintiffs in Magisterial Court.
Thought Leadership
“General Admissibility of Relevant Evidence,” “Character Evidence; Other Crimes, Wrongs, or Acts,” and “Methods of Proving Character,” Ohlbaum on the Pennsylvania Rules of Evidence, 2024, Contributing Author
“Federal Court Cautions Lawyers on Pleading Affirmative Defenses,” Defense Digest, Vol. 27, No. 4, September 2021
“Advanced Directives and Incapacity: When Should a Person's Wishes Be Overridden?,” Burns White Insights, October 2019
Cross Examination and Settlement Tactics, Marshall Dennehey CLE Program, February 5, 2024