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June 14, 2022
Dentons partner Alanna Clair has racked up one big win after another for insurance companies in high-stakes litigation, including successfully defending several insurers in a $100 million coverage dispute and scoring a huge win for a Zurich unit, earning her a spot among the top insurance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 13, 2022
Mark Herman of Covington & Burling LLP has been instrumental in advising Merck & Co. on securing coverage for its $1.4 billion cyberattack loss, earning him a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 10, 2022
Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP partner Cindy M. Jordano helped notch one of the first pro-policyholder pretrial wins in a COVID-19 business interruption suit and worked to settle a client's hacking coverage dispute despite little precedent guiding the way, earning her a spot among the insurance attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 30, 2022
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2022, our list of 176 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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June 18, 2021
Rani Gupta of Covington & Burling LLP has taken a lead role in advising Major League Baseball and Goodwill Industries of Orange County in two major pandemic coverage suits, earning her a spot among insurance practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 17, 2021
Meredith Elkins of Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP has represented Verizon in seeking almost $120 million in D&O coverage and helped TIAA recover 100% of its underlying defense costs over an investor dispute, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 16, 2021
Janine Stanisz of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP represented Northrop Grumman, a multibillion-dollar global defense contractor, in seeking $130 million in D&O coverage and has been fighting for more than 100 companies across all industries in COVID-19 business interruption suits, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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June 15, 2021
Kyle P. Brinkman of Blank Rome LLP has taken a prominent role in several policyholder-side real estate disputes, including representing publicly traded real estate investment fund Urban Edge Properties in a $40 million COVID-19 business interruption suit, earning him a spot among the top insurance litigators under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 14, 2021
Jonathan Hardin of Perkins Coie LLP has helped WorldStrides, one of the U.S.'s biggest education travel companies, to recover more than $90 million over its COVID-19 business interruption losses, and represented Hitachi Zosen Corp. in over $700 million worth of insurance claims, landing him among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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June 11, 2021
Lavinia Weizel of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC has represented London reinsurers in a suit over obligations for a more than $130 million judgment involving environmental contamination and defended an insurer against a series of cyber liability claims, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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May 28, 2021
We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2021, our list of 180 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
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July 16, 2020
Steptoe & Johnson's Catherine Cockerham has helped defend insurers against a variety of complex, multi-party asbestos-related injury claims and insurance coverage disputes, landing her among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 15, 2020
Michael Gehrt of Pasich LLP has secured millions in coverage for DirecTV after a flood in Thailand hurt one of its suppliers, and he got the City of Beverly Hills a rare windfall through a settlement with its insurers over three car accidents, earning him a spot among the Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 14, 2020
Laura Bange Stephens of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC has been instrumental in securing major coverage and settlement decisions for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., ranging from decades-old sexual abuse claims to bankruptcy issues, landing her among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 13, 2020
Covington & Burling LLP partner Dustin Cho has been instrumental in helping the NFL reach settlements with several of its insurers over coverage for former players' concussion claims, landing him a spot among the insurance practitioners under 40 honored as Law360 Rising Stars.
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July 10, 2020
With wins under his belt representing the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in an asbestos coverage suit against AIG and obtaining Superfund site coverage for Siltronic Corp., Anderson Kill PC's Raymond Mascia has been named one of the insurance attorneys among Law360's 2020 Rising Stars.
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July 02, 2020
We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2020, our list of 176 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
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September 13, 2019
Karen Toto of Wiley Rein LLP has helped defend insurers against a variety of claims and topics ranging from asbestos and pharmaceuticals to municipal bonds, landing her among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 12, 2019
Glenn Bridgman of Susman Godfrey LLP helped secure a $91 million settlement for John Hancock Life Insurance Co. policyholders in their proposed class action alleging the company was jacking up premiums by using the wrong mortality rate calculations, earning him a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 11, 2019
Steptoe & Johnson LLP's Sarah Gordon, fresh off of handling claims in the massive NFL concussion settlement, is now helping an AIG unit navigate coverage disputes in the fallout of a global cyberattack, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 10, 2019
Jones Day's Amanda P. Ellison has been instrumental in securing major coverage and arbitration decisions for the Los Angeles Unified School District, including a published opinion from the California Court of Appeal, landing her among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as a Rising Star.
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September 09, 2019
Debevoise & Plimpton's Susan Gittes has helped a slew of life insurance companies defeat a multibillion-dollar suit brought under the New York False Claims Act, earning her a spot among the insurance law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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September 06, 2019
We're pleased to announce Law360's Rising Stars for 2019, our list of 175 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.
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August 29, 2018
Wiley Rein LLP partner Leland Jones obtained an Eleventh Circuit victory for a liability insurer in a contaminated-medicine case and helped a client win a Ninth Circuit ruling in litigation over the meaning of “professional services,” making him one of five insurance attorneys under 40 to land on Law360's list of Rising Stars.
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August 28, 2018
Kennedys CMK LLP partner Heather E. Simpson has spent the last year helping more than a dozen insurance companies dig through the NFL’s records as they battle to avoid paying for the league’s massive $1 billion-plus concussion settlement, a monumental undertaking that landed her a spot as one of five insurance attorneys under 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.