Dana W. Chilson

Associate
Harrisburg, PA
100 Pine Street, PO Box 1166 | Harrisburg, PA 17108-1166
T 717.237.5457
F 717.260.1780

Dana is an attorney in the Litigation group and also practices in the Financial Services, Injunction, and Insurance Recovery and Counseling groups. She represents commercial and business clients in a wide variety of disputes, including contract challenges and questions regarding shareholder and corporate rights. She also assists clients in obtaining and defending against injunctive relief.

Dana represents clients in loan and credit workouts, collections, and bankruptcy. For the insurance group, Dana assists clients in insurance recovery cases regarding the denial of benefits under life insurance policies and the denial of underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage.

Dana also regularly counsels private property owners in eminent domain matters. Dana has experience in defending clients in both state and federal condemnation actions. Dana has successfully secured the constitutional guarantee of payment of just compensation for the taking of property and damages to the remainder property caused by the condemnation. She has additionally assisted clients in asserting inverse condemnation claims where the condemning authorities' activities resulted in a taking of private property without formal condemnation proceedings. Dana also has experience asserting the rights of public entities under the Eminent Domain Code.

Dana is a former extern to Chief Judge Yvette Kane of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Pennsylvania Bar Association
  • Dauphin County Bar Association, Court Relations Committee
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association High School Mock Trial Competition, District Coordinator South Central Pennsylvania Region; Regional Coordinator South Central Pennsylvania
  • American Cancer Society, Steering Committee, Central Pennsylvania Region Daffodil Days Campaign; 2013 Campaign Chairperson, 2012 Sponsorship Campaign Co-Chair
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Education

  • Duquesne University, B.A., Political Science, 2005, summa cum laude
  • The Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University, J.D., 2008, magna cum laude; Woolsack Honor Society; Paul Stevens AwardPenn State Law Review, Articles Editor

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania, 2008

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2008
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 2008
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, 2011
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2011