Gary L. Gassman

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123 North Wacker Drive
Suite 1800
Chicago, IL 60606
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Gary L. Gassman

Gary will be speaking at an upcoming event:
2018 Professional Liability Seminar
New York, NY 11/01/2018
Cozen O'Connor will host the 2018 Professional Liability Seminar in New York City.
Event Details

Gary Gassman focuses his practice in the areas of insurance coverage counseling and litigation and is co-chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group. For more than 20 years, his practice has been concentrated on management liability including directors and officers and entity liability, employment practices liability, fiduciary liability, and various types of professional liability and commercial general liability coverage. He also has significant reinsurance experience. Gary serves as national coverage counsel for a number of insurance companies in the management of directors and officers and professional liability claims and litigation. He has represented insurers and reinsurers in coverage litigation and domestic and international arbitration and in general business and compliance matters. He regularly engages in management liability and miscellaneous professional liability insurance policy, application and endorsement interpretation and drafting, and has conducted numerous claim, system and underwriting audits for insurers and reinsurers. He also defends various types of professionals in litigated matters. Gary is an active member of the Illinois, Wisconsin, and Arizona bars and a member of the Federal Trial Bar for the Northern District of Illinois.

Gary speaks at insurance coverage seminars throughout the county and is active in several lead organizations. He has taught legal writing as an adjunct professor of law and regularly publishes in the areas of corporate governance, securities laws, and international and domestic D&O, E&O, and EPL exposures and trends. Gary currently serves as Diversity Officer of the American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS), co-chair of the TIPS Insurance Institute Task Force, and leader of the Cozen O'Connor LGBTQ Attorney Resource Group.

Gary earned a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University in 1990 and a law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1993.

Experience

Events & Seminars

2018 Professional Liability Seminar	New York, NY	11/01/2018
Part V: Keeping These "I"s in Focus - Avoiding Bad Faith in Illinois and Indiana	Webinar	08/15/2018
TIPS 2018 Section Conference	Los Angeles, CA	05/02/2018
26th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Midyear Conference	Phoenix, AZ	02/22/2018
2017 Professional Liability Seminar	New York, NY	10/12/2017
ABA 25th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committe Midyear Program	Phoenix, AZ	02/23/2017
2016 Updates & Hot Topics in Professional Liability Insurance	New York, NY	11/17/2016
2016 ABA San Francisco Annual Meeting	San Francisco, CA	08/04/2016
Webinar: Social Engineering Attacks and the Impact on Cyber and Crime Insurance	Webinar	06/21/2016
ABA 24th Annual Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee Midyear Program	Phoenix, AZ	02/18/2016
2015 Professional Liability Seminar	New York, NY	10/29/2015

Practice Areas

Professional Liability Insurance Coverage

Casualty & Specialty Products Insurance

Bad Faith

International Arbitration

Education

The John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1993
Indiana University–Bloomington, B.A., 1990

Awards & Honors

ABA, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) Leadership Academy – 2008-2009

Best Lawyers in America 2018-2019

Bar Admissions

Court Admissions

Affiliations

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