Jill M. Caughie

Director of Lateral Integration

As the firm’s director of lateral integration, Jill works closely with the firm’s internal administrative departments, existing attorneys, and management to ensure the successful transition and integration of the firm’s lateral attorneys. Jill is responsible for assisting new partners and the partners’ department chairs and practice group chairs with their business and marketing plans and creating synergies among partners with intersecting practices and/or client bases. 

Jill was in the firm’s 2008 summer associate class and then joined the Philadelphia office in September 2009 as a litigation associate. For over five years, Jill practiced law at Cozen O’Connor and at another large Philadelphia law firm. She also served as Cozen O’Connor’s director of legal recruiting for four years.

Jill earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the Pennsylvania State University. She earned her law degree, cum laude, from Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was awarded membership into the Rubin Public Interest Law Honor Society and completed a fellowship with the Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. 

 

Education

  • Temple University—James E. Beasley School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2009
  • Pennsylvania State University, B.A., 2004
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania
  • Pennsylvania Supreme Court
  • Supreme Court of New Jersey
  • U.S. District Court -- Eastern District of Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court -- New Jersey