D. Alicia Hickok is a partner in the Commercial Litigation Practice Group. She joined the firm in 2002 following a clerkship with the Hon. Marjorie O. Rendell on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
Alicia has participated in state and federal court appeals and has contributed to several amicus briefs before the United States Supreme Court. She currently serves as Deputy Counsel to the Pennsylvania Appellate Court Procedural Rules Committee. She has been a panelist and prepared materials for seminars in Pennsylvania appellate practice.
Alicia has built upon her pre-law economic antitrust research experience with N/E/R/A to evaluate complex litigation questions at the trial level as well as on appeal. She has represented clients with claims or defenses arising under the antitrust laws and the United States and Pennsylvania constitutions, as well as claims about the scope of fiduciary duty and other disputes within corporations, partnerships or limited liability companies.
In General. Alicia is a member of the firm's Public Interest Committee. She is co-chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section Antitrust Litigation Committee and a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association Appellate Advocacy Committee, as well as a member of the Third Circuit Bar Association.
Alicia received her bachelor's degree, with honors, cum laude, in international affairs from Texas Christian University and graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. During law school she was technology editor for the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and competed on the Jessup International Moot Court Team. She was a teaching assistant for a Penn undergraduate course in law and philosophy. She assisted Professor Graeme B. Dinwoodie with research for "The Development and Incorporation of International Norms in the Formation of Copyright Law" published in the Ohio State Law Journal and "A New Copyright Order: Why National Courts Should Create Global Norms," published in The University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Alfred Putnam and Alicia are co-authors of "Should I Appeal? Ethical and Practical Issues," Chapter 4 of PBI Third Circuit Appellate Practice Manual (2006), edited by James C. Martin and Nancy Winkelman. She has also contributed to the firm's Antitrust Update.
Publications
10/30/2006, Antitrust Update
Paul Saint-Antoine, Richard Coe, Kenneth Vorrasi, Meredith Slawe, D. Alicia Hickok
3/28/2006, Antitrust Update
Paul Saint-Antoine, Joanne Lewers, Kenneth Vorrasi, D. Alicia Hickok, Mark Sosnowsky, Michael Daly
1/9/2006, Antitrust Update - Judge Alito's Antitrust Jurisprudence
D. Alicia Hickok
1/28/2005, Amicus Curiae Brief of the Chester County Historic Preservation Network in Support of Respondents
D. Alicia Hickok
11/12/2002, Amicus Curiae Brief of the Chester County Historic Preservation Network
D. Alicia Hickok
Speaking Engagements
11/18/2010, Superior Court of Pennsylvania, En Banc Session
D. Alicia Hickok, Philadelphia, PA
10/15/2010, Philadelphia Bar Association Bench-Bar & Annual Conference
"275 Years of Freedom of the Press: A Reenactment of the Trial of John Peter Zenger"
D. Alicia Hickok, Atlantic City, NJ
9/28/2010, Montgomery County Bar Association CLE Seminar
"Avoiding Appellate Pitfalls for the Trial Lawyer"
D. Alicia Hickok, Norristown, PA
5/5/2010, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
"Winning (or Not Losing) Your Case on Appeal"
D. Alicia Hickok, Philadelphia, PA
3/31/2008, "Perils & Pitfalls of 1925(b)"
D. Alicia Hickok, Philadelphia, PA
2/23/2008, Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Judges
"New Pa. R.A.P. 1925"
D. Alicia Hickok, Philadelphia, PA
1/19/2007, Pennsylvania Bar Institute
"Appellate Wheel of (Mis)Fortune: Strategic Opportunities, Common Mistakes, Procedural Pitfalls and Waiver Traps"
D. Alicia Hickok, Philadelphia, PA