Shanon J. Carson
Executive Shareholder- 215-875-4656
- 215-875-4604
- scarson@bm.net
Shanon J. Carson is an Executive Shareholder of the Firm who oversees the firm’s Commercial Litigation, Consumer Protection, Defective Products, Defective Drugs and Medical Devices, Employment, Employee Benefits & ERISA, Environmental, Healthcare, Insurance, and Mass Tort practice areas.
Shanon is one of the top lawyers in America in complex civil litigation. He is known for his ability to marshal and lead teams to achieve successful results for his clients, as well as for his creativity, passion, entrepreneurship, communication skills, thoughtfulness, and problem-solving abilities.
Shanon is often selected to represent plaintiffs in large, challenging matters, and is routinely appointed by courts as lead or co-lead counsel in significant matters, including cases involving breach of contract, civil rights, consumer protection, construction, defective products, discrimination, employment, ERISA, excessive fees, false advertising, healthcare, insurance fraud, invasion of privacy, product liability, toxic torts, and unpaid wages/overtime, as well as in cases involving the violation of state and federal statutes. Shanon represents plaintiffs in all types of complex civil litigation including commercial litigation, class actions, collective actions, mass torts, multiple plaintiff lawsuits, and single plaintiff lawsuits, as well as in mediation, arbitration, and other types of administrative proceedings and hearings.
Shanon has the highest peer-review rating, “AV,” in Martindale-Hubbell, and has received honors and awards from numerous publications. In 2009, he was selected as one of 30 “Lawyers on the Fast Track” in Pennsylvania, and in every year since 2015, has been selected as one of the top 100 lawyers in Pennsylvania as reported by Thomson Reuters. Shanon is also recognized in the business community, having been named to the Philadelphia Business Journal‘s “Best of the Bar: Philadelphia’s Top Lawyers.”
Shanon is frequently invited to speak at continuing legal education seminars and other professional conferences, and is active in numerous organizations. Mr. Carson served on the Board of Directors of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association and as a Co-Chair of its Class Action/Mass Tort Committee, and is a member of the American Association for Justice, the American Bar Foundation, Litigation Counsel of America, the National Trial Lawyers – Top 100, and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice.
Shanon’s desire to attempt to create positive impact and change in the area of healthcare and particularly healthcare debt (the largest driver of personal bankruptcies in the United States), led him in 2021 to co-found Highlight Health, now a growing Philadelphia-based healthcare cost containment company. Highlight Health works with health plan members, plan sponsors, plan administrators, and stop loss carriers to reduce the cost of healthcare by utilizing proprietary technology and other assets to increase transparency and reduce variability and overbilling by medical providers, ensuring that each bill paid is accurate and complies with law.
Shanon attended the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, where he was a senior editor of the Dickinson Law Review and clerked for the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Carson also served for many years on the Board of Trustees of the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University.
Shanon is most proud of his family. He is the father of two wonderful children and lives in Philadelphia with his wife Laura who also attended Dickinson Law, and who is now an executive at a large, publicly-traded company.
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