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Allison is a member of the firm's Employment Litigation and Counseling Group. She focuses her practice on defending discrimination harassment claims at both administrative agencies and in court. Allison has experience in litigating covenants not to compete, as well as trademark and copyright infringement. Allison also assists her employment clients with developing and implementing policies and procedures to help prevent litigation. She has reviewed and drafted employee handbooks and performed sensitivity and other legal training to employers in the region. She recently obtained summary judgment in a disability discrimination case in federal court in Maine.

Allison served as Articles Editor for the Connecticut Journal of International Law. Her comment, Stem Cell Research: The Laws of Nations and a Proposal for International Guidelines, was published in the Journal in 2002.

Allison is an avid runner. She also considers herself an unofficial ice cream connoisseur. Allison also enjoys hiking, particularly on New Hampshire trails.

Allison also works in the firm's Non-Profit Organizations practice group. She represents colleges and universities, as well as private secondary schools, advising them concerning their policies and procedures, as well as representing them in litigation pending in state and federal courts. Most recently she obtained summary judgment in a civil rights action in which a former student alleged a college discriminated against him on the basis of race. On behalf of the firm's non-profit clients, Allison has successfully defended cases involving claims of negligent hiring and retention, invasion of privacy, false arrest, federal civil rights violations, sexual abuse, disability discrimination, and personal injury matters.

College of the Holy Cross (B.A., Ethics in Medicine and Society, 2000)
University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D., with honors, 2003)

Admitted to the Bar in New Hampshire and Massachusetts