Alison C. Duffy

Overview

Alison Duffy represents employers, boards of directors, and homeowners’ associations on a wide range of legal matters. With a strong background in handling complex cases involving intricate fact patterns, numerous witnesses, and extensive discovery, Alison remains steadfastly dedicated to working closely with each client at every stage of the dispute resolution and litigation process to achieve favorable outcomes.

In her employment law practice, Alison guides clients through even the most difficult discrimination, employee misclassification, wage disputes, and whistleblower protection matters. She has favorably mediated a myriad of employment disputes, securing favorable results for those she feels priveledged to serve. Beyond litigation, Alison also provides strategic employment counsel, including reviewing and updating company policies and handbooks to ensure compliance and mitigate risk.

Alison’s homeowners’ association practice spans a variety of issues, including fair housing and discrimination claims, disputes between homeowners, covenant violations, and challenges to amendments and election outcomes. She often resolves these matters through early dispositive motions. In more complex cases, Alison takes a comprehensive approach to problem-solving by thoroughly understanding the association’s governing documents and the underlying issues in order to ensure a robust defense at trial.

Notably, Alison recently secured a full defense verdict and an award of attorneys’ fees for a homeowners' association after a contentious pre-trial process, definitively resolving questions regarding the association’s authority and concluding disputes over its efforts to improve the community.

Publications

• Author, Whose Best Interest is it Anyway?: School Administrators’ Liability for Student Injury in Virginia, 64 U. L. Rev. 209 (2014)