Laura Duncan Phillips

Laura D. Phillips is an associate at Phillips and Faldowski. She was raised in Washington and attended high school at Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy in Wheeling, West Virginia. She graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 2001, where she was a member of the International Politics Honors Program. In 2004, Laura received her Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Legal Research and Writing Fellow. While in law school, Laura was selected to be a member of the Appellate Litigation Clinic and represented clients in the Fourth and DC Circuits. After graduation, Laura worked as a litigator in Washington, DC before returning to southwestern Pennsylvania in 2006 to practice at Phillips and Faldowski.

Since 2008, Laura has served on the Board of Governors of the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, formerly the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. She has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association since 2007. She is a former President, Vice-President, and Secretary of the Young Lawyers' Division of the Washington County Bar Association, and is a former member of the bar association's Executive Committee. Laura is also a member of the American Bar Association, American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association), and the Allegheny County Bar Association. Laura is a member of the Board of Directors of the Chuckie Mahoney Memorial Foundation, a non-profit organization that promotes adolescent mental health and suicide prevention.

Laura is frequently invited to teach continuing legal education (CLE) courses, and she has spoken on topics including professional ethics, courtroom technology, and proving damages.

Laura resides in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.