Laura Rizio

Laura Rizio is a litigation attorney with the firm of Rizio, Hamilton & Kane which she co founded with her husband in 1978. She practices law in Philadelphia and is a graduate of the Pennsylvania State University and the Dickinson School of Law. Prior to her working in her present firm, she was an Assistant District Attorney under Arlen Specter and later became a litigation attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission trying sex and race discrimination cases. She, along with other members of her team at the EEOC, helped bring about a large settlement against Phillip Morris in a failure to hire and promote case. Currently she represents severely injured plaintiffs who are victims of auto accidents, building collapse, fire, slip and fall in and on premises, and dangerous products as well as medical malpractice.