Stephanie Chesney

Member

Boston

(617) 849-5010

(857) 488-4871

Recent News:

Stephanie Chesney Receives Veterans Legal Services 2024 Outstanding Pro Bono Award

BOSTON, October 3, 2024 – Stephanie Chesney, member of Cozen O’Connor’s Global Insurance Department, has been named the recipient of the Veteran Legal Services 2024 Outstanding Pro Bono Award.

Stephanie is an experienced litigator, focusing on business and commercial litigation matters, including catastrophic injury, employment, general liability, education, products liability, construction, and premises liability matters. Stephanie also has experience in defending health care providers and institutions in professional liability matters. She represents clients from pre-suit through trial and has extensive courtroom experience defending claims across Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire state and federal courts. She also has additional experience providing risk transfer and tender advice to clients and advising regarding risk mitigation strategies.

With over a decade of experience, Stephanie was most recently a partner with a national litigation firm where she defended catastrophic and large-scale complex commercial and general liability claims. Before that, she was in-house claims counsel and director of claims for a Boston-based construction contracting company, where she was the chief coverage specialist on all Builder’s Risk, General Liability, Worker’s Compensation, and Completed Operations claims.

Stephanie earned her bachelor’s degree from Saint Mary’s College of Maryland and her law degree from the New England School of Law and is a graduate of the International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy. She regularly speaks at industry events across the country, discussing hot topics within her practice areas. She also enjoys mentoring new associates and organizing pro bono efforts. She was an adjunct professor at New England Law Boston from 2011–2019, where she enjoyed teaching first-year law students legal research and writing.

News

Stephanie Chesney Receives Veterans Legal Services 2024 Outstanding Pro Bono Award

October 03, 2024

BOSTON, October 3, 2024 – Stephanie Chesney, member of Cozen O’Connor’s Global Insurance Department, has been named the recipient of the Veteran Legal Services 2024 Outstanding Pro Bono Award.

Events & Seminars

Upcoming Events

Best Practices for Expert Test Selection and Evaluation

November 15, 2024 - New Orleans, LA

Stephanie Chesney will speak on the panel “Best Practices for Expert Test Selection and Evaluation” at the Perrin Conferences National Construction Defect Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Past Events

NAWL 2024 Annual Meeting

July 24, 2024 - Chicago, IL

Industry Sectors

Education

  • New England School of Law, J.D., 2008
  • St. Mary's College, B.A., 2005

Awards & Honors

Katahdin Counsel Recognition Program for Pro Bono Service in Maine, 2023

National Association of Women Lawyers Rising List, 2023

Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers Rising Star, 2012–2018, 2020–2023

Pro Bono Honor Roll, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 2022, 2023

National Bar Journal Rising Star, 2015

  • Massachusetts
  • Maine
  • New Hampshire
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
  • U.S. District Court -- Maine
  • U.S. District Court -- Massachusetts
  • U.S. District Court -- New Hampshire

American Trucking Association

Trucking Association of Massachusetts

Maine Motor Transport Association

Transportation Lawyers Association

International Association of Defense Counsel Trial Academy, 2023

National Association of Women Lawyers, Co-chair, Litigation Affinity Group