Michael L. Cohen

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Insurance and Reinsurance, including:

• Insurance Coverage
• Excess
• Reinsurance Arbitration and Litigation
• Reinsurance Pools
• Insurance Corporate and Regulatory
• Professional Errors and Omissions
• Directors & Officers
• Insurance Company Insolvency, including Transnational Insolvencies
• General Liability Defense
• Financial Institutions Insurance

NOTEWORTHY MATTERS

• International Insurance and Reinsurance Practice.
• Managed Runoff of Major Municipality Liability Program for London Insurer.
• Handled two large London Market Runoffs for one of the largest U.S. Property and Casualty Companies.
• Represented Liquidators, Guaranty Associations, Reinsureds and Reinsurers in Insurance Insolvencies.
• Opposed High Profile Certification of a U.K. Part 7 Transfer by U.S. Bankruptcy Court.
• Obtained judgment establishing direct liability of purchaser of major international pool on behalf of cedant to potentially insolvent issuing company.
• Successfully arbitrated long tail allocations and aggregation issues on behalf of reinsurers.
• Served as Director on Boards of Several Domestic Insurers and U.S. Branch of Foreign Insurers and as first President of Legal Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland.
• Obtained the approval of the Institute of London Underwriters' Companies (more than 100 companies) as Reinsurers in Maryland to establish the ILU's port of entry into the United States.
• Established first toxic tort trigger favoring insurers in the State of Maryland.

PROFESSIONAL/EDUCATION

• Admitted to Bar in Maryland
• Former General Counsel to the Maryland Insurance Administration
• American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Practice Section
• Former Chairman, Professional Liability Insurance Committee, Maryland State Bar Association
• University of Pennsylvania (J.D. 1977)
• Appellate Litigation

Thomas A. Buckley

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Complex Civil Arbitrations and Litigation
• Primary, Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance Coverage, Counseling, Arbitration, and Litigation
• Insurance Defense, including general liability and professional errors and omissions.
• Personal Injury Claims & Suits

NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE

• Defended and prosecuted complex commercial arbitrations and lawsuits.
• Defended and prosecuted malpractice lawsuits relating attorneys and insurance and real estate brokers/agents.
• Represented manufacturers of forklifts, tractors, ski equipment, pharmaceuticals, and asbestos-containing products.
• Represented developers, home inspectors and contractors in construction defect suits.
• Represented automotive manufacturers and dealerships in claims of breach of warranty (lemon law) and improper sales practices.
• Represented transportation and trucking companies in tort suits.

PROFESSIONAL/EDUCATION

• Member, State Bar of California
• Admitted in all Federal Districts in California, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. Supreme Court
• Member, American Bar Association, Torts and Insurance Section
• University of California, Hastings (J.D. 1987)
• University of Santa Clara (B.S. 1984)

Michael G. Raimondi

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Complex Civil Litigation
• Employment and Title VII

NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE

• Commercial Construction Litigation.
• Employment Litigation.
• Successfully defended lawyers from claims of negligence in federal court.
• Successfully defended challenges to construction of major commercial buildlings.
• Successfully defended CEOs and Directors from claims of sexual harassment discrimination.
• Successfully arbitrated impact of contractual clause in major labor and employment case.
• Served as Director on Several Maryland corporations and non profits.

PROFESSIONAL/EDUCATION

• Former Chief Solicitor for City of Baltimore
• Former Special Assistant Attorney General
• Former Principal Counsel for Baltimore City Fire Department
• Admitted to Bar in Maryland
• University of Baltimore (J.D. 1982)

Jessica L. Johnson

AREAS OF EMPHASIS

• Insurance and Reinsurance
• Employment discrimination and wrongful discharge
• OSHA and FMLA litigation
• Personal injury tort litigation
• Medical malpractice

NOTEWORTHY EXPERIENCE

• Capital University Law Review, Executive Articles Editor.
• Order of the Barrister, Presidential Scholar.
• Jessup International Law Moot Court, Top Ten Oralist.

PROFESSIONAL/EDUCATION

• Admitted to Bar in Ohio, Florida and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio.
• Ohio University, B.S. Journalism, 1999, Summa cum laude.
• Capital University Law School, J.D., 2004, Magna cum laude.
• Former city hall reporter for the Chillicothe Gazette
• Former Labor and Employment Litigation Section law clerk, Lane, Alton & Horst, LLC