Seth’s clients range from banks, manufacturers, publicly traded entities, and technology startups to agriculturalists, non-profits, colleges, and universities.

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He has represented clients ranging from multinational corporations to small family owned businesses in state and federal district courts in a wide variety of marine, commercial, casualty and complex medical malpractice litigation. He has served as lead trial counsel in cases in 3 states and 2 federal districts.

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Joseph has tried complex civil disputes in courts throughout New England, as well as Delaware, Maryland, New York, Ohio and Texas. Clients seek out his experience taking matters to trial in state and federal courts and litigating numerous arbitrations through final hearings. He is also sought out for his handling of appeals before courts, including the First Circuit Court of Appeals and state appellate courts in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

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Even while a first-year law student, Mr. Keely was involved in reinsurance litigation as an intern with a firm handling reinsurance and insurance insolvency matters. Over 20 years later, he brings that deep industry knowledge to bear, litigating and arbitrating commercial disputes with a particular focus on the (re)insurance industry. Clients seek out Mr. Keely because he knows the industry and the issues they face. Clients rely on Mr. Keely to craft commercial solutions when appropriate and to take cases to trial when necessary to win them. He has successfully tried cases to verdict in U.S. state and federal courts, and to final award in arbitration for clients based in the U.S., London, Continental Europe, and Asia.

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Has written many coverage opinions and has handled numerous coverage disputes under first-party and third-party insurance policies involving claims arising from fire, explosion, earthquake, equipment breakdown, flood, and other losses.

Has litigated disputes concerning various policy exclusions, limitations of liability, suit limitation provisions, statute of limitations, business interruption claims, the duty to defend, loss-in-progress, among others. Has also handled numerous appeals in several federal circuits and states.

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Scott is a frequent presenter in the areas of insurance coverage and bad faith litigation and has recently presented at the DRI Coverage and Bad Faith Symposium, FDCC Coverage and Bad Faith Seminar, and others.

Prior to practicing law, Scott obtained a degree in Architectural Engineering and worked for an engineering and architecture firm in Chicago.

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Richard has successfully defended clients in state courts, federal district courts, and federal courts of appeal. Notably, he secured a favorable precedential opinion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a unique pollution liability insurance coverage matter. He also is known for successfully representing a defendant in a landmark case that effectively ended all tobacco litigation for the insurance industry.

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He has litigated a wide range of coverage issues, including claims for defense and indemnity under commercial general liability policies (both bodily injury/property damage and personal injury/advertising injury coverage parts) and multi-party disputes involving issues such as the number of occurrences, exhaustion, attachment, “drop down” due to insolvency, and allocation.

In addition, Matt has substantial experience, including jury trial work and defending personal injury and groundwater contamination matters.

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Lilit’s practice focuses on representing corporate policyholders in breach of contract and bad faith disputes involving first- and third-party coverage claims arising under errors and omissions (E&O), directors and officers (D&O), employer liability (EPLI), fiduciary, cyber, general liability, crime, and property policies.

More broadly, Lilit also represents financial institutions, lenders and servicers in connection with commercial litigation matters such as lending disputes, inter-creditor disputes, residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and loan-repurchase litigation and settlements. She has also handled a number of high-value, high profile matters pursuing mortgage insurance coverage on behalf of lenders and securitization sponsors for defaulted mortgage loans after the 2008 financial crisis.

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