Joseph graduated with honors from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. He did so while playing NCAA Division One hockey for the university. He earned his Juris Doctorate Degree with distinction from John Marshall Law School in 1988. He joined Beverly & Pause in 1988. He has extensive trial experience involving premises, products liability and automobile accident claims. He has also briefed and argued cases in the Illinois Appellate Court and Federal Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit. While litigating coverage issues in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court he has also served as an independent arbitrator in both uninsured and underinsured motorist claims. He currently belongs to the Illinois State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and American Trial Association and is also a member of the Defense Research Institute, Illinois Defense Counsel and the Justinian Society of Lawyers.

Principal and founder of DiSandro & Malloy, P.C., E. Douglas DiSandro Sr., Esq. is a 1978 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and a 1981 graduate of the Widener University School of Law, where he obtained his law degree. After graduating law school, he served as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable William Hart Rufe of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas. After completing his clerkship, he became a personal injury litigator and spent twenty-four years as a partner in a major center city personal injury firm before deciding to start his own personal injury law firm. He has achieved numerous multi-million dollar recoveries for injured victims and is a certified member of the Million Dollar Advocate Forum. He has extensive experience in representing employees of the United States Postal Service, Pennsylvania State Troopers, City of Philadelphia Police Officers and Federal Express employees injured in the line of duty. He also has extensive experience with claims of individuals injured by defective products. Mr. DiSandro received the distinct honor of being named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer based on an independent survey of peers and industry leaders within the legal community, most recently being selected in 2006, 2009, and 2010. Only the top five percent of Pennsylvania lawyers receive this distinction. He also has received an AV preeminent rating, the highest rating possible from Martindale-Hubbel who evaluates attorney’s level of legal ability and ethical background based on evaluation by their peers. He is a member of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, as well as a member of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice and Philadelphia Trial Lawyers’ Association. He is a member of the Italian Lawyers Justinian Association where he served as a member of the Board of Directors. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, and has participated as a lecturer for continuing legal education seminars. He has in the past and continues to volunteer his time to the Philadelphia Court System where he serves as a Judge Pro Tempore successfully mediating settlements of personal injury cases. He has served on the Board of CYO, Catholic Youth Organization, and he is presently on the board of Gaudeamus, a faith based ensemble of professional musicians who, through their musical performances, generate proceeds directed to organizations supporting the needy, with primary focus on education and children’s medical needs. He also serves as Chairman of The Loyola Society President’s Board at St. Joseph’s University. He is licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as the United States Supreme Court, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Area of Practice: Mass Tort Alison Divine is a civil litigator who seeks accountability and compensation for victims of harmful medical devices or drugs, as well as justice for victims of terrorism. She currently serves on two plaintiff’s law and brief committees for mass tort medical device litigation involving IVC filters and Hernia Mesh. Alison also serves on the law and brief, expert, and discovery committees in a consortium of firms seeking justice for veterans who were victims of terrorism during the Iraq War. At her prior firms, Alison successfully worked to obtain a seven-figure settlement on behalf of almost one hundred pre-trial detainees and prisoners who were subjected to excessive force and routinely put in restraint chairs. She won compensatory damages along with a $250,000 punitive damages award in a FINRA arbitration against an investment advisor. She was a awarded a two year Public Interest Fellowship at the University of Georgia School of Law where she conceived of and created a program to provide free legal counsel to people facing housing insecurity, ultimately supervising law student externs while representing clients facing foreclosure and housing issues. Alison began her law career at a large southeast regional defense firm representing nursing home corporations and other medical providers. Alison was also an Enforcement Attorney for Georgia’s Securities and Business Regulation Division and later worked for a plaintiff’s firm where she practiced litigation and arbitration on behalf of plaintiffs in the areas of securities and constitutional law. As a student, Alison was a finalist in Georgia State University Law School’s Research Writing and Advocacy Moot Court Competition. She was elected Vice President of the GSU Mock Trial Team was a finalist in two consecutive ABA State Mock Trial Competitions, advancing as a semi-finalist in the ABA Regional Competition. She was awarded a Litigation Externship with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia where she was sworn in to practice, arguing and winning two appeals. She also served as President of the GSU Intellectual Property Law Society. It is Alison’s goal as a lawyer to help bring forth ongoing and positive change by vigorously advocating on behalf of her clients. She is committed to the ideals of decency and fairness in her relationships with her adversaries and to the full and just administration of the law.