Marisel Acosta

Associate

Marisel Acosta represents individual and corporate clients in a wide range of litigation matters. She focuses on commercial litigation, class action litigation, and corporate investigations, and advises clients on electronic discovery matters and disputes. Marisel began her career at Morgan Lewis with an exclusive focus on counseling companies on pension plans and executive compensation arrangements. She leverages that experience in her current practice when litigating issues arising out of employment terminations.

Extended Profile

While in law school, Marisel served as a judicial intern to Judge Dolores K. Sloviter of the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before law school, Marisel worked as an employee benefits professional in the Philadelphia and Malvern areas in Pennsylvania.

Marisel holds a B.S. in economics, with a concentration in organizational management, from the Wharton School of Business.

Education

Temple University, Beasley School of Law, 2002, J.D., Summa Cum Laude
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, 1995, B.S.

Admissions

Florida
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Awards and Affiliations

Note and Comment Editor, Temple Law Review

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association

Publications

3/3/2011 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Rules Attorney-Client Privilege Is a Two-Way Street