J.P. Harrington Bisceglia is a partner at Christian Dichter & Sluga, P.C. Her primary practice areas are insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation. She is a seven-time Super Lawyers Rising Stars selectee, has earned the Martindale-Hubbell AV-Preeminent Rating, was invited to be an Senior Fellow by the Litigation Counsel of America (“LCA”) in 2023, and has been listed in Best Lawyers for 2024. She is a prime member of the Association of Defense and Trial Attorneys (“ADTA”).
J.P. Harrington Bisceglia practices in Arizona State and Federal courts and has recently been admitted to practice in New Mexico. She handles her clients’ needs from case assessment, investigation, discovery, settlement, trial and appeal. She has spent her entire legal career working in insurance defense litigation. She has represented clients in a broad range of cases including insurance coverage disputes relating to first- and third-party claims on personal and commercial lines, bad faith, medical and other professional liability claims, nursing home litigation, subrogation, and general civil litigation. Ms. Harrington Bisceglia was second-chair at a trial on bad faith and breach of insurance contract claims which resulted in a unanimous defense verdict in favor of the insurance carrier. This verdict was designated one of the ten most significant defense verdicts in 2014 by Arizona Attorney Magazine. Ms. Harrington Bisceglia has been involved in 12 trials over the course of her career, several of which were tried to verdict. She also has completed arbitrations on a variety of civil disputes.
She has presented educational material to claims adjusters, managers, and corporate counsel in private in-house settings as well as at NAMWOLF meetings and PLRB Regional Conferences.
Ms. Harrington Bisceglia is a board member of the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel and leads the group’s Diversity Committee with the direct purpose of increasing the diversity of attorneys in the Arizona defense community. She also serves as the firm’s primary contact to NAMWOLF (National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms), where she co-chairs the Insurance Practice Area Committee. She also serves on diversity committees of ADTA, the State Bar of Arizona, and the Maricopa County Bar Association. Ms. Harrington Bisceglia shares her love of law and the practice of law with each of these organizations and collaborates with them in a way to foster opportunities in law to all who seek it.
Best Lawyers 2024, Insurance Law and Litigation - Insurance
Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), 2023
AV-Preeminent Peer Review Rating, Martindale-Hubbell
Phoenix Magazine "Top Lawyer" (Insurance Coverage, Bad Faith), 2022
Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2014-2020
Phoenix Magazine "Arizona’s Outstanding Young Lawyers," 2014
Arizona, 2008
New Mexico, 2020
U.S. District Court, Arizona
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
United States Supreme Court
J.D., University of San Diego School of Law, 2008
B.A., University of San Diego, 2002