Professional Liability

Atheria’s Professional Liability group is a robust team of lawyers and legal professionals, each with extensive experience representing insurers in connection with a wide variety of claims against lawyers, architects, engineers, accountants, and other professionals.

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Our clients’ insureds range from solo practitioners to the largest professional services firms in the world. We are routinely involved in bet-the-company claims with alleged damages in the billions of dollars. Our team prides itself on our zealous representation of insurers’ interests without losing sight of our clients’ valuable relationships with brokers and their insureds.

In this capacity, we regularly: 

Represent primary insurers and excess towers reaching into the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Distinguish ourselves with our creative resolution of claims involving construction projects of all sizes, from single-family residential to multi-billion-dollar public works and infrastructure.
Analyze risks attendant to legal-malpractice claims arising from complex underlying transactions and litigation.
Advise our clients and their insureds on risk-management practices; risks posed by mergers, acquisitions, and consolidation of firms; and cutting-edge legal issues such as cyber exposure.
Negotiate commercial resolutions of multiparty, multidisciplinary, and multijurisdictional disputes.
Counsel insurers regarding complex coverage issues, loss reserves, and defense reserves.

Key partners

SEC Sues Law Firm to Compel Disclosure of Client Information Following Cyberattack

On January 10, 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) sued the law firm Covington & Burling LLP (“Covington”) in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The SEC seeks to compel Covington to comply with an investigative subpoena for documents stemming from the November 20

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Legal Malpractice Claims Continue to Grow: Trends and Predictions for 2022 and Beyond

Law firms and their insurance carriers have experienced a rise in both the frequency and severity of high-exposure legal malpractice claims over the past year. As the global economy remains in a period of high inflation and economic uncertainty, there is a risk that this trend may continue.

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MAJOR UK DATA BREACH CLASS ACTION SUITS ARISE IN THE WAKE OF GDPR

In two decisions rendered this month, the UK courts have permitted two major class-action lawsuits under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regime. The suits prove that the GDPR opens the door for large representative suits on behalf of data breach victims..

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Bill Casey
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Christina Marshall
Founding Partner
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David Jordan
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Eric Moon
Founding Partner
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Nick Lieberknecht
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Nicole Shapiro
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