Washington, D.C. 20036
Alternate Office
Dawn Singleton is an Associate in the Firm’s Washington, DC office. She has 10 years of experience litigating matters in the areas of personal injury, which includes matters involving landlord and tenant, employment, construction and professional engineers.
Ms. Singleton has assisted in jury trials in Washington, D.C. and represented clients for bench trials in Maryland. She was involved in a significant matter of first impression in the District of Columbia that involved the statutory notice requirements for filing a lawsuit against an independent agency of the District of Columbia government. Ms. Singleton was successful in getting the case dismissed on the grounds that Plaintiff had not complied with statutory notice provisions requiring notice to the agency prior to filing the Complaint. The trial court’s decision was affirmed by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals establishing the first appellate decision of the agency’s enabling Act on statutory notice.
Ms. Singleton is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Maryland and South Carolina. She is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and the United States District Court for Maryland
She graduated from Winthrop University with a B.A.in 1995 and received her J.D. from the University Of South Carolina School of Law in 1999.