William Sylianteng is a member of the firm and practices in our suburban Philadelphia office, located in Blue Bell, where he focuses primarily on large loss property subrogation. Will began his career at Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg, LLC and then worked for a year in the national property subrogation/recovery department of a large Philadelphia law firm. He returned to our firm in 2007. Will is licensed to practice in the state and federal courts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York.
Originally from southern California, Will attended California State University, Northridge, and received his B.A. in Political Science. After graduation, Will attended Temple University Law School where he received his J.D. At Temple, Will received honors in Oral Advocacy, Evidence and Taxation. He also was the President of Temple’s Asian Pacific Law Student Association and was awarded the Bertram K. Wolfe Award for outstanding achievement in the second year of his legal studies.
In 2007, Will was named a “Lawyer on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer and PA Law Weekly, an honor given annually to 35 attorneys under the age of 40 who are recognized by their peers and the judiciary as the future leaders of the Commonwealth’s legal community. Will was also named a Pennsylvania SuperLawyer Rising Star in 2007, 2008 and 2010, a publication of Thomson Reuters business, in accordance with its procedures, a designation bestowed on only the top 2.5% of Pennsylvania attorneys under the age of 40.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors and as the Co-Chairman of the Insurance Coverage & Subrogation Committee of the Pennsylvania Defense Institute (PDI), an organization made up of insurance attorneys, insurance executives, and self-insureds.
Will is active in the National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP). He has lectured at NASP conferences on “subrogation ethics” and he was a featured speaker on the “Insured Made Whole Doctrine” at both the 2008 NASP Annual Conference and the 2009 NASP Litigation Skills Conference. Will has also served as a “track leader” for NASP’s Litigation Skills Conference (2010 - Tucson, AZ).
Will is also active in the local bar and has served in the Montgomery County Bar Association as Vice-Chair of the Civil Practice Committee (2009) and as the Vice-Chair of the Diversity Committee (2010). He is also a member of the Asian American Bar Association of Pennsylvania. In April, 2009, Will was featured as a panelist on the topic of “Diversity in Today’s Law Firms” in the Diversity supplement of The Legal Intelligencer.
In June, 2010, Will was a featured speaker on subrogation best practices at the “America’s Claims Event Conference” in Las Vegas, NV; a conference sponsored by Claims Magazine.
Will also has represented the National Association of Subrogation Professionals, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and the PA Insurance Federation as amici curiae in both the Jones v. Nationwide Insurance Co. class action in the Pennsylvania Superior Court and in the matter of Harnick v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company in the 3rd Circuit Federal Court of Appeals (both cases involving the insurer’s duty to reimburse deductibles upon making a subrogation recovery).
Will has authored the following articles: Subrogating Spoliation, The Subrogator, p.60 (Fall 2007 ed.); The Road to Partnership in Generation Next, The Legal Intelligencer (2008, Generation Next Supplement); Pennsylvania Court Address Subrogation “Priority” and the Issue of “Bad Faith”, The Subrogator, p.109 (Winter 2010 ed.); Understanding the Made Whole Doctrine, Claims Magazine (April 2010 ed.).
Will lives in Montgomery Township, Pennsylvania with his wife and their daughter. He is involved in local politics and is an avid Phillies, Eagles and 76ers fan.
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