Overview
Shannon Porterfield is an associate attorney in the Philadelphia office of WSHB, where she defends individuals and corporations in various aspects of complex civil litigation claims.
Before joining the firm, Shannon gained extensive experience in civil litigation matters, focusing on commercial transportation and premises liability claims. Her previous experience also includes serving as a judicial law clerk in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and interning with the United States Attorneys’ Office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Shannon also served as a law clerk at a boutique healthcare law firm, where she prepared and filed insurance appeals and assisted in physician licensing and regulatory compliance matters.
Shannon graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law. While in law school, she was an online editor of the Wake Forest Law Review, where her student article “Litigating Opioid Addiction as Organized Crime: An Analysis of Proximate Cause and Pharmaceutical Misrepresentations Under RICO” was published. Shannon further served as a research assistant, focusing on healthcare matters, and was a clinical student in the Veterans Legal Clinic, where she represented low-income veterans with “bad paper” discharges stemming from various mental health disorders. She previously earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Health Policy and Administration from Pennsylvania State University, graduating magna cum laude.
Shannon is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Credentials
Education
- Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D., 2022)
- Pennsylvania State University (B.S., 2018, magna cum laude)
Licensed to Practice in
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
Newsroom
Publications
- How COVID Changed the Rules: Reappraising the Future of COVID-19 Waivers, AMERICAN HEALTH LAW ASSOCIATION, Online, April 2022
- Litigating Opioid Addiction as Organized Crime: An Analysis of Proximate Cause and Pharmaceutical Misrepresentations Under RICO, WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW, Online, August 2021