Section: Law Briefs
Author: Andrew Donohue
Attorney(s): David Casey, Wendy Behan, Wendy Davisson


The University of San Diego will honor attorney David Casey next month with the Author E. Hughes Career Achievement Award.

The award, named after a former school president, honors alumni for outstanding achievement.

Casey, a partner at Casey, Gerry, Reed & Schenk LLP, helped set up a victims compensation fund following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He also worked on a moratorium on lawsuits related to the attack.

"David is not only a successful attorney but also a true leader in the field," said Jack Kelly, the school's alumni relations director, in a statement.

Casey received his J.D. from USD in 1974 and is president-elect of the American Trial Lawyers Association.

Wendy Behan and Wendy Davisson have been named the newest associates at Casey, Gerry, Reed & Schenk LLP.

Behan, who works out of the firm's Carmel Valley office, will go on working with the firm's pharmaceutical clients.

She also works on litigation for American prisoners of war who were forced into slave labor by Japanese companies during World War II.

Davisson works in the firm's Banker's Hill office on product liability and personal injury cases. She previously interned at the Federal Public Defender's Office.