Lisa Solomon is an Associate Attorney at Dell & Dean. Ms. Solomon’s practice areas focus on personal injury, including motor vehicle collisions and premises liability.
Ms. Solomon joined the D2 family in April of 2024 as a member of the firm’s motion team.
Ms. Solomon graduated from New York University School of Law, cum laude. Prior to attending law school, she earned her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brandeis University, where she majored in history and psychology. At Brandeis, she earned numerous awards, including Dean’s list (all semesters) and phi beta kappa. She was also named a Justice Brandeis Scholar and Abraham Sachar Scholar.
For the vast majority of her 30+ year legal career, Ms. Solomon has focused exclusively on legal research and writing, at both the trial court and appellate levels. From 1996 to 2022, she worked as a freelance lawyer, assisting solos and small firm litigators nationwide with all of their legal research and writing needs, including preparing and arguing appeals and drafting dispositive motions. As a freelance lawyer, she worked in many areas of law, including personal injury, commercial litigation, IDEA, trusts and estates litigation, employment litigation and matrimonial litigation. Her innovative practice led the American Bar Association to name her as a Legal Rebels Trailblazer in 2017.
On her days off, Ms. Solomon enjoys hunting for wild mushrooms and other wild edible food with the Connecticut Westchester Mycological Association.
- New York University School of Law, J.D., cum laude
- Brandeis University, B.A., magna cum laude
- New York State
- United States District Court, Southern District of New York
- United States District Court, Eastern District of New York
- United States Supreme Court
- Legal Writing Institute
- Choosing the Right Legal Research Tool for Your Law Firm, eBook (MyCase September 2015)
- To Improve Your Brief-Writing, Study How Judges Write Opinions, The Appellate Forum, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (July 2015)
- Use Copywriting Techniques to Write More Persuasive Briefs, The Appellate Forum, Vol. 2, Issue 2 (July 2014)
- Pixel Persuasion: Appellate Brief-Writing for the 21st Century, The Appellate Forum, Vol. 2, Issue 1 (January 2014)
- Appellate Services Providers: Not Just for Printing Anymore, 35 Westchester County Bar Journal 53 (Spring/Summer 2008)
- Ethical Judicial Opinion Writing (co-author), 21 Geo. J. Legal Ethics 237 (Spring 2008)
- Specialists Will Take Care of the Messy Detail Work, National Law Journal, February 19, 2007, at pp. S5-S6
- Taking an Appeal, GP|Solo Magazine, October/November 2002, at pp.32-33
Timely Disclaimer, Reasonable Efforts and the Uncooperative Insured, New York Law Journal, November 1, 1999, at p.1
- Choosing the Right Legal Research Tool for Your Firm Above the Law Academy for Private Practice (2015)
- Pixel Persuasion: Legal Writing for the 21st Century Brooklyn Bar Association (2015); New York State Bar Association (2014); New York City Bar Center for CLE (2012); Nebraska State Bar Association (2011); Nassau Academy of Law (2011)
- Powerful Writing Techniques to Help You Persuade Judges and Win Clients New York State Bar Association (2011); Pennsylvania Bar Institute (2011); Michigan State Bar Association (2010); American Bar Association (2009)
