Experience

Rating: 10.0 (Superb)

Honors

2015

Super Lawyer, Illinois Super Lawyers

2015

Insurance law, Best Lawyers in America

2015

Insurance Coverage & Reinsurance Law, Leading Lawyers Network

2014

Rising Star in the area of insurance coverage, Law & Politics Magazine

2014

Insurance Law, The Best Lawyers in America

2013

Rising Star in the area of insurance coverage, Illinois Super Lawyers

2013

Insurance Law, The Best Lawyers in America

2013

40 Illinois Attorneys Under Forty to Watch, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin and Chicago Lawyer

2012

Rising Star™ in the area of insurance coverage, Illinois Super Lawyers

2011

Rising Star™ in the area of insurance coverage, Illinois Super Lawyers

2010

Rising Star™ in the area of insurance coverage, Illinois Super Lawyers

2010

AV Peer Review Rating 5.0, Martindale-Hubbell

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Work Experience

2011 - Present

Partner, Neal Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

2006 - 2011

Partner, Howrey LLP

2005 - 2006

Partner, Schiff Hardin, LLP

2001 - 2005

Associate, Schiff Hardin, LLP

1999 - 2001

Associate, Jenner & Block

1998 - 1998

Summer Associate, Jenner & Block

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Associations

2008 - Present

Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association

Vice Chair

2001 - Present

Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel

Member

2012 - 2014

Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel - Insurance Law Committee

Chair

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Sample of Legal Cases

Frontier Supply Chain Solutions, Inc. v. Streamline Transport Solutions, LLC, 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 101354 (N.D. Ill. 2014)

Union Elec. Co. v. AEGIS Energy Syndicate 1225, 713 F.3d 366 (8th Cir. 2013)

Union Elec. Co. v. Energy Ins. Mut., Ltd., 689 F.3d 968 (8th Cir. 2012)

Union Elec. Co. v. AEGIS Energy Syndicate 1225, 2012 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119584 (E.D. Mo. Aug. 23, 2012)

Omega Flex, Inc. v. Pacific Ins. Co., No. 09- P-628, 2010 Mass. App. LEXIS 1457 (Mass. App. Ct. Nov. 16, 2010)

American Econ. Ins. Co. v. Holabird & Root, 382 Ill. App. 3d 1017 (1st Dist. 2008)

Country Life Ins. Co. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co., 422 F. Supp. 2d 977 (C.D. Ill. 2006)

Country Life Ins. Co. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39656 (C.D. Ill. April 14, 2005)

Country Life Ins. Co. v. St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co., 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 39691 (C.D. Ill. Jan. 31, 2005)

Utica Mutual Ins. Co. v. David Agency Ins., Inc., 327 F. Supp. 2d 922 (N.D. Ill. 2004)

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Education

1999

John Marshall Law School

JD, magna cum laude

1996

Brandeis University

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Speaking Engagements

2014

Webinar

Builder’s Risk Insurance: What Owners and Contractors Need to Know

2014

Doing Business in the United States

Legal and Insurance Considerations

2014

27th Annual Media & the Law Seminar

Now You See it, Now You Don’t....

2013

Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program

Settling Coverage Cases: A Smoking Hot Case Study

2013

2013 Spring Symposium

Tort & Insurance Law Updates

2013

2013 Risk Transfer Workshop 2013 Construction Risk Transfer Workshop

2012

Webinar

Insurance Coverage Disputes & Construction Defects

2012

Webinar

Insurance Coverage Disputes and Construction Defects

2012

Ask the Expert Program: Risk Management

Insurance and Risk Management

2012

118th National Convention & 82nd Chicago Spring Meeting

Working with Experts from an Attorney’s Standpoint

2011

Webinar

What Is Cyber Insurance and Is It Worth the Cost?

2010

Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Section Insurance Coverage Committee

The Illinois Estoppel Doctrine and Recent Developments Affecting Notice and Defense Requirements under Claims-Made Insurance Policies

2010

16th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program

Everything You Wanted to Know About Your Client But Were Afraid to Ask

2009

Webinar

Building Insurance Coverage for Construction Projects

2009

15th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program

Crafting the Key Documents in Insurance Coverage Litigation

2007

13th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program

Additional Insureds and Insured Contracts

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Publications

2014

Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Quarterly Exclusion of the Occurrence? Examining Illinois Courts' Interpretation of "Coverage" in Construction Defect Cases

2014

Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel 2013 Survey of Law Insurance Law

2014

IDC Quarterly What Peppers Counsel Needs to Know Before Agreeing to Follow Insurer Litigation Guidelines

2014

ABA/TIPS Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee Newsletter Advertising Injury Coverage for the Unauthorized Use of Another’s Name, Product or Content on Your Webpage or Domain Name: Two Competing Interpretations of the ‘Unauthorized Use’ Exclusion

2013

American Bar Association's 2013 Annual Meeting in San Francisco We Just Got Bit in the Gigabyte! What Do We Tell Our Insurers?

2013

Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Quarterly Determining the Number of Occurrences in Illinois: Ware Do We Go From Here?

2013

Property Casualty 360 Are Pre-Denial Claims Communications Admissible in Court?

2013

ABA's 2013 Women in Insurance Networking and CLE Workshop Ways the Virtual World Rocks the Real World: Understanding the Nuances of Information Security Risk and the Insurance Market Response

2013

IDC 2012 Survey of Law Insurance Law

2012

International Risk Management Institute 50 Insurance Cases Every Self-Respecting Attorney or Risk Professional Should Know (contributing author)

2012

Commercial and Professional Liability Insurance Chapter 6 — Duty To Defend

2012

PLUS Journal Evaluating Coverage for Class Actions Seeking Statutory Minimum Damages: Covered Loss or Excluded Penalties?

2012

IDC Quarterly In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time: Defense Counsel as Ethically Challenged or Merely in a Position where Appearance of Impropriety Exists when Insurer and Insured have Conflict of Interest?

2011

IDC Insurance Law Committee Electronic Newsletter Illinois Association of Defense Trial Counsel Insurance Law Update

2011

The IRMI Risk Report (Vol. 34, No. 4) Closing CGL Cyber Coverage Gaps

2011

Insurance Law360 CGL Coverage for Chinese Drywall Claims: An Overview

2011

IDC Quarterly General Contractor Not Entitled to Additional Insured Coverage on Sub-Subcontractor’s CGL Policy Due to Lack of Direct Contract Between the Parties and Disclaimer in Certificate of Insurance

2010

3 New Appleman Law of Liability Insurance § 16 Products Liability Insurance

2010

3 New Appleman on Insurance Law Library Edition § 17 Duty to Defend

2010

Constructionweblinks Chinese Drywall: Big Damage Claims and Big Insurance Coverage Disputes Ahead

2009

Tort & Insurance Law Journal Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage Litigation

2008

IDC Quarterly Kajima v. St. Paul: Illinois Supreme Court Clarifies Interplay between Horizontal Exhaustion and Targeted Tender

2008

The Brief; Reprinted in the “Best of ABA Sections” issue of GPSolo Magazine Protecting a General Contractor from Liability Caused by a Subcontractor

2008

The Construction Contracts Book: How to Find Common Ground in Negotiating Design and Construction Contract Clauses (ABA Forum on the Construction Industry) Insurance

2008

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage Litigation

2007

IDC Quarterly Managing the Risk: A Report of the September 30, 2007 IDC/SOICA Construction Insurance Symposium,

2006

IDC Quarterly The IDC Monograph: Insurance Coverage for Defense Counsel: A Primer

2005

CGL Reporter Six Myths to Overcome For Insuring Economic Loss, Breach of Contract, and Faulty Workmanship

2004

Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Law Journal Recent Developments in Insurance Coverage Litigation

2002

Construction Law Preserving Consequential Damages Through Limited Waivers and Insurance Coverage

2001

Environmental Counselor Good News: 2000 Brownfields Review

2000

Environmental Counselor Corps Issues New Nationwide Permits

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Languages

English

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