Zachary T. Ottoson

Attorney Recruiting Manager

    Zac serves as the firm’s Attorney Recruiting Manager. In this role, Zac works directly with the Executive Committee, Hiring Chair, and Managing Shareholders to source, interview, and hire attorneys in all practice groups throughout the firm’s 19 offices. As such, Zac is the firm’s main point of contact for attorneys interested in learning more about the firm.

    Zac began his career with Marshall Dennehey in 2014 as an associate in the firm’s Casualty Group. Prior to re-joining the firm, he worked for over five years as an attorney recruiter with one of the world’s leading legal talent agencies. As an agency-side attorney recruiter, Zac successfully placed dozens of attorneys of all practice areas and experience levels into top Am Law-ranked firms, boutiques, and corporations throughout the country. He therefore maintains deep market knowledge and brings that experience to bear in Marshall Dennehey’s hiring process. 

    As an associate at the firm, Zac’s practice spanned everything from insurance fraud to insurance coverage disputes, PIP and SIU investigations and litigation, and general liability defense. Zac worked in the firm’s South Jersey and Philadelphia offices. 

    After graduating from Rutgers Law School in 2013, Zac completed a Judicial Clerkship with the Hon. M. Patricia Richmond, J.S.C., of the Superior Court of New Jersey, Civil Part, Burlington Vicinage.  Zac earned a BA in Political Science from Virginia Tech in 2010.

    Admissions
    New Jersey
    2013
    Pennsylvania
    2013
    U.S. District Court District of New Jersey
    2014
    Education
    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey School of Law-Camden (J.D., 2013)
    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (B.A., 2010)
    Associations & memberships
    American Bar Association
    Burlington County Bar Association
    Camden County Bar Association
    New Jersey State Bar Association
    Young Friends of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Board Member
    Year joined
    2023