Pamela J. Tillman’s practice focuses on representing a wide variety of businesses in litigation matters, primarily in the areas of complex insurance coverage issues, commercial litigation, mortgage lending disputes, employment disputes and health care liability. Whatever the issue, she believes that it is paramount to have the experience and understanding to advise clients on the possible outcomes and costs of litigation so that clients have a comprehensive viewpoint to make the strategic decisions that drive the litigation.
Insurance coverage clients routinely call on Pam for her coverage analysis and advice in cases ranging from basic property damage coverage, to bad faith liability, and upward to complex commercial disputes. These matters involve an extensive variety of claims, including environmental pollution liability, product liability, health care liability, toxic tort and various business torts, at the trial and appellate court level.
Pam has defended banking and financial institutions in mortgage lending litigation and federal consumer claims such as claims under the Truth-in-Lending Act, Home Owners Equity Protection Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Equal Credit Opportunity Act, as well as an array of state law consumer claims. Beyond this, she has also defended business litigants in product liability, toxic tort and medical negligence claims. In addition to her law practice, Pam serves on the firm’s Board of Directors.
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America® (2019 – Present)
- Wisconsin Super Lawyers® (2010 – Present)
- Top 25 Lawyers in Milwaukee (2022 – 2023)
- Top 50 Lawyers in Wisconsin (2022 – Present)
- Top 25 Women in Wisconsin (2014, 2015, 2017, 2019 – Present)
- Wisconsin Super Lawyers® Rising Star (2009)
- BizTimes Media Notable Women in Law (2020)
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
Professional Organizations
- State Bar of Wisconsin
- Association of Women Lawyers
- Eastern District of Wisconsin Bar Association, Board Member
- Vice Chair of the Civil Committee
- DRI® (Defense Research Institute), Insurance Law Committee, CGL Subcommittee, and Diversity Subcommittee
- Wisconsin Defense Counsel (f/k/a Civil Trial Counsel of Wisconsin)
- Milwaukee Bar Association, Bench-Bar Civil Division and Professionalism Committees
- American Bar Association, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee
- Independent Business Association of Wisconsin
Speeches & Publications
- Speaker, Contribution Among Insurers: “Other Insurance” and Priority of Coverage Between Insurers; Contribution Between Insurers in an “All Sums” Environment; and Other Factors Affecting Claims Between Insurers, Wisconsin Defense Counsel Winter Conference (2018)
- Speaker, Environmental Insurance Coverage Update: Recent Case Law Dealing with “Occurrence,” the Pollution Exclusion and Insurer-to-Insurer Dispute, 27th Annual Environmental Law Update (2015)
- Speaker, Civil Litigation and Evidence Conference, Marquette Law School (2015)
- Author, Are Claims-Made Policies Worth Issuing in Wisconsin from an Insurer’s Standpoint?, Wisconsin Civil Trial Journal for Wisconsin Defense Counsel, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Winter 2014)
- Co-Speaker, Third-Party Discovery, Milwaukee Bar Association Civil Litigation Section, (March 13, 2014) (with Jennifer A.B. Kreil)
