Research and Markets: The Essential Strategies for Landing More Insurance Litigation Clients (Video Seminar)

This 90-minute online seminar is guaranteed to inspire several new ideas and best practices for business development you can begin using in your practice immediately, as well as provide you with the most up to date litigation strategies. The video also analyzes the repercussions of important litigation case studies (such as the Congoleum case and a major UK Arbitration case from this year) that will have a direct financial impact for your clients this year and beyond. Watch the video seminar on your computer during a flight, train ride or even while exercising on your iPod.

The seminar features the perspectives of insurance litigation specialists Paul Koepff (Partner, O'Melveney & Myers LLP), Tancred Schiavoni (Partner, O'Melveney & Myers LLP) and Kevin Coughlin (Managing Partner, Coughlin Duffy). Personalize their strategies to enhance your own client strategies, develop ideas for landing more clients, and stay up to date on the latest insurance litigation thought leadership.

The Video Seminar focuses on:

- A detailed look at the most up-to-date and successful best practices and client strategies being used in insurance litigation

- What clients look for when hiring a lawyer/firm for insurance litigation

- Litigation strategies, roles and motivations of each party

- New strategies being used to evaluate financial exposure and how to proceed in a litigation situation

- How to fine tune your litigation strategies for a case based on the latest settlements and verdicts

- Case studies of other insurance litigation cases and what they mean for current cases

About the Keynote Speakers:

Paul Koepff is a partner in O'Melveny & Myers LLP's New York office and chair of the Firm's Insurance and Reinsurance Practice Group. Paul has handled insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes for over 30 years, has tried numerous coverage cases in state and federal courts, has argued appeals in various state and federal appellate courts, and has arbitrated numerous insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes, including multiple arbitrations in the UK and Bermuda. More specifically, Paul has been involved in litigating various kinds of insurance and reinsurance-related disputes and claims in state and federal courts under the laws of various jurisdictions. He has prevailed in his last 10 arbitrations involving various insurance and reinsurance-related disputes and claims in domestic and foreign arbitrations, including recovering the fees and expenses as the prevailing party. Among other things, the matters have related to claims of ceding companies seeking reinsurance with respect to environmental claims, asbestos claims, products liability, product tampering and accidental contamination, professional liability, and other coverages. He has also been involved in challenges made to arbitration proceedings and awards in courts of the United States and Bermuda. Paul has been counsel of record in some of the most significant and far-reaching insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes. He has served as lead counsel in numerous appellate decisions, including ones: rejecting joint and several liability and adopting allocation; adopting a broad and fair reading of the sudden and accidental pollution exclusion; and the number of occurrences rising out of a host of different circumstances.

Tancred V. Schiavoni is a partner in O'Melveny & Myers' New York office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts, and Aggregated Litigation Practice. He has represented insurance companies in a variety of disputes, including bad faith claims and environmental coverage litigation. Tanc has represented carriers in cases in a number of states, including New Jersey, New York, and New Hampshire. He has also conducted and assisted in mediations and provided coverage advice to clients to assist them in avoiding disputes without the need for litigation. He participated at trial in the defense of a major environmental coverage action involving multiple parties and claims for coverage exceeding $500 million. Tanc was also involved in the trial of another major multiparty coverage dispute involving coverage claims in a dozen states and Canada.

Kevin Coughlin is a founding member and managing partner of Coughlin Duffy LLP. His practice extends to numerous areas, including insurance and reinsurance, toxic torts, products liability, asbestos, asbestos bankruptcies, professional liability, directors and officers, financial institutions, construction, antitrust, commercial and corporate litigation, environmental and bad-faith litigation. He regularly counsels insurers and reinsurers worldwide on a variety of issues relating to commercial insurance and reinsurance. Mr. Coughlin also defends insurance companies and reinsurance companies in coverage litigation and arbitrations in numerous jurisdictions throughout the United States. In the commercial area he represents multinational clients in disputes arising out of commercial transactions, including non U.S. transactions with implications within the United States. Mr. Coughlin was a founding member of the insurance services group at McElroy, Deutsch & Mulvaney LLP. He was partner at that firm from 1987 until he resigned in March 2004 to start the firm of Coughlin Duffy LLP.

About the Seminars - Videos That Ignite New Ideas for Busy Professionals:

Videos enable busy professionals to generate new ideas and actions that can have an immediate impact on their behalf. Incorporate the thought leadership of hundreds of leading executives and lawyers into your own strategies for landing more clients, updating your professional best practices, or simply generating new ideas around any topic. Every video displays a list of Idea Generator questions while the video is playing and is guaranteed to provide you with at least three new ideas that you can use immediately. Videos provide professionals of all levels with proven business intelligence, direct and unfiltered insight in a format that is more engaging and time-efficient than a book, magazine or traveling to a seminar.

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