Speakers

Mr. Beemer has 45 years in the insurance industry and is retired and doing consulting and expert witness work through Suite 200 Solutions.  Previously he was the VP of Claims at Tokio Marine HCC Insurance Group.  Prior to TMHCC, Mr. Beemer worked at IAT, QBE, Aetna, CNA, Home Insurance, Risk Enterprise Management and Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.   At QBE Mr. Beemer lead the liability claims department and the Litigation Management department for QBE.  He had direct oversight of Litigation Management, Transportation, GL, CD, TPA Services and Environmental claims.  Prior to QBE Mr. Beemer was the National Claim Director for Construction Defect, Latent Injury and Entertainment Claims at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company. In his career he has been a chief technical officer, consultant to re-insurers, training coordinator, national accounts coordinator, litigation manager, legal auditor, claims and due diligence auditor, PMK, expert witness and has been a panel speaker at CLM and other industry events. He serves on  the Advisory Board for the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance, has served as Dean of Litigation Management at Claims College and is a Chancellor and Professor at Litigation Management Institute. Mr. Beemer has authored numerous articles for Claims Management Magazine and Litigation Management Magazine. Mr. Beemer received the CLM Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 at the Annual Conference in Tampa Florida. Mr.Beemer is retired but does consutling work through Suite 200 Solutions.

Dan co-founded and serves as the Executive Chairman of Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman, a full service law firm with over 400 attorneys with offices throughout the United States.  In his role as Chairman, Dan is responsible for the high level management of the firm, execution of the firm's strategic vision and ensuring its overall effective operational management. Representing Fortune 500 companies and mid-market businesses, Dan is a recognized authority on commercial and business law, has received Martindale Hubbell's highest rating of "AV Preeminent," and has been selected a California "Super Lawyer" on numerous occasions. Dan's legal work spans matters involving business issues, professional liability, real estate, intellectual property, entertainment endeavors, and construction-related issues.  Dan has worked for many years closely with the domestic and London insurance markets, has successfully tried numerous complex cases to verdict and has been instrumental in several groundbreaking favorable rulings in the appellate realm.  He has served as a court appointed arbitrator and mediator, and serves as monitoring and coordinating counsel for clients throughout the United States.

Memberships and Accomplishments: Firm Chairman, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman; 2015 –Present, Managing Partner, Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman; 2007 – 2015, Member, Young Presidents' Organization Santa Monica Bay Chapter (YPOSMB); 2009 – Present, Member, Council on Litigation Management, Professional Liability Committee Member, California Building Industry Association Legal Action Subcommittee Member, Professional Liability Defense Federation Member, Defense Research Institute, Technology Committee Member, National Association of Home Builders Construction Law Attorney Forum Member, Building Industry Association of Southern California Member, Association of Southern California Defense Counsel (ASCDC) Member, Risk and Insurance Management Society, Inc. (RIMS) Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America Quarterly Contributor to Residential Design and Build Magazine, AV Preeminent Lawyer by Martindale-Hubbell, Certified Continuing Legal Education Instructor at the Litigation Management Institute (LMI) at Columbia University Law School.

John Browning is the managing partner of the Dallas, Texas office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP, where he handles civil litigation in state and federal courts in areas ranging from employment and intellectual property to commercial cases and defense of products liability, professional liability, media law, and general negligence matters. Mr. Browning has extensive trial, arbitration, and summary judgment experience and has represented companies in a wide variety of industries throughout Texas and on a pro hac vice basis in other jurisdictions. Mr. Browning received his B.A. with general and departmental honors from Rutgers University in 1986, where he was a National Merit Scholar and member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 1989. Some of his honors include being a 2009 and 2010 recipient of the prestigious Burton Award for Achievement in Legal Writing; rated "AV," the highest commendation issued by Martindale-Hubbell for legal ability, ethics, and professionalism; selected as a "Super Lawyer" in the field of Civil Ligation Defense (2005¬2010, Law & Politics); inducted as a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society limited to 3,500 Fellows, representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers; and elected to the American Law Institute (one of only seven lawyers in Texas elected in 2009). Mr. Browning is a noted legal writer, and is a frequent contributor to national and regional legal publications on a wide variety of subjects. His weekly syndicated newspaper column "Legally Speaking" has garnered numerous journalism awards. His book, The Lawyer's Guide to Social Networking: Understanding Social Media's Impact on the Law, was published in December 2010 by Thomson ReutersWest Publishing. He is a member of the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, the International Association of Defense Counsel, and also serves as an adjunct professor at SMU Dedman School of Law, where he teaches the course “Social Media and the Law.” He is the author of numerous articles on social media-related topics, and has been quoted as a national authority on the subject by the New York Times, TIME Magazine, Salon.com, Inside Counsel Magazine, Law 360, and other publications.

Dorothy G. Capers is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of National Express, the North American subsidiary of a publicly traded transportation company on the London stock exchange whose brands include Durham School Services, Petermann LLC and National Express Transit Corporation.  Dorothy oversees a diverse legal team that supports the Company in areas of corporate governance, employment, labor, litigation, environmental, real estate and corporate contracts.  Dorothy also has Compliance reporting in to her.

Prior to joining National Express in June of 2015, Dorothy was Associate General Counsel for US Foods, Inc., a $22 billion dollar privately held foodservice distribution company that has over $1billion in publicly traded debt securities.  There she had primary responsibility over the Litigation and Bankruptcy/Finance teams within the Legal Department.  She was also a member of the team leading US Foods through a proposed merger with Sysco Corporation, their largest competitor.  Before joining US Foods, Dorothy has worked extensively as a litigator in the state, county and local government as well as in the private sector for law firms and corporations.  Her government experience includes her leadership as a Deputy Corporation Counsel with the City of Chicago and as a prosecutor for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office.  Dorothy’s first in house role was as Senior Counsel with Metra Railroad.
  
Dorothy has lectured on legal topics related primarily to internal investigations, attorney client privilege, development of convergence and alternative fee proposals and best practices for developing in- house litigation strategies.  Dorothy sits as a member of the board of the Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, Children’s Home & Aid, The Claims and Litigation Management Association and the Black Alumni Network for the University of Illinois.

Dorothy earned her J.D. from Howard University School of Law, Washington DC and her B.A from the University of Illinois, Champaign, IL.

Christopher A. Carucci is Vice President of Client Services for Gallagher Bassett. His responsibilities include oversight of large national accounts, claim management and litigation management.  Previously, Chris was in a claim leadership role at Everest National Insurance Company. Chris was responsible for managing the Casualty, Auto, Property, Excess, and Professional Liability Claim Departments as well as overseeing Litigation Management, SIU and Compliance. Prior to joining Everest National Insurance Company, Chris was a leader within the Specialties Claims Organization of Zurich North America managing the Professional Liability Claim Department.  He also was played a significant role in litigation management.  Chris worked at AIG before joining Zurich North America. At AIG, he managed a nationwide caseload of bad faith, coverage and high exposure Casualty claims. Chris also was involved in litigation management and conducting training for claims personnel.
 
Chris is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (Advisory Board Member), the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, USLAW (Client Advisory Board), Defense Research Institute and NRRDA. He is a professor at the CLM Litigation Management Institute and a frequent speaker at industry events on topics including claim management, litigation management and good faith claim handling.  He earned his B.A. degree from Fairfield University and his J.D. from New York Law School.

Frank Chang is currently Director of Safety and Insurance Analytics at Uber, a group of data scientists and actuaries dedicated to making rare events even more rare. Frank has been at Uber since 2014.
Frank's career as a non-traditional actuary, however, began in 2012, when he joined Google as their first and Lead Actuary, responsible for pricing, reserving, credit and risk modeling.
Before Google, Frank worked in various traditional roles covering personal, commercial, and specialty lines pricing as well as reserving and reinsurance. The bulk of Frank's traditional actuarial career was spent at Fireman's Fund Insurance Company.
Frank graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.A. in Music and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and will serve a three-year term on the CAS Board of Directors starting in November 2017.

Dan Costello, Founder and Managing Partner of Costello Ginex & Wideikis,  is currently recognized as a national expert in litigation management, complex case litigation, and trial practice.  In 2014 he was one of four finalists for the Claim and Litigation Management (CLM) Outside Counsel of the Year, selected from nearly 40,000 members. He is a Advisory Board member for CLM, Co-Chair of the Anti-Nuclear Verdict Task Force, Co-Chair of the Litigation Management Symposium (LMS), and a Chancellor of Litigation Management Institute (LMI) held at Loyola Law school in Chicago.

Over the last three years, Dan's litigation practice has continued to grow, as has the firms growing portfolio of litigation based solutions.   Dan has been retained as lead counsel in complex cases including lead trial counsel in two cases of first impression in Illinois  including the loss of opportunity to have a biological child for 66 plaintiffs in a Cryogenic tank malfunction, and a class action lawsuit in litigation of Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) dealing with statutory/punitive damages.  He has also been retained in complex litigation including the collapse of a tent resulting in multiple fatalities and 19 plaintiffs' claims and recently resolved construction litigation brought on behalf of a national retailer that spanned seven states, and involved insurance disputes with twenty-two separate insurers. 

He also acts as a litigation consultant, billing fees expert, and expert in litigation of complex and construction defect disputes.  He has recently been retained as an expert witness in multiple party litigation in California, Texas, Florida, Arizona, among other states.   Dan also maintains an active practice in consulting with carriers on litigation management strategy, implementation, and improvement.  

Specialties: Construction Litigation, Litigation Management, Expert Fees, Complex litigation, Insurance Coverage, products liability, and construction/design defect

Vice President - Field Liability Claims – CNA  Insurance
Commercial Liability Field Vice President with responsibility for;

* Auto / GL & Umbrella Claims in the U.S. Field Claim Operation
* Unsupported Excess Team
* New York Labor Law Team
* TPA Oversight team
* National APD Team
* Multinational Claims

 Litigation Management Institute / Certified Litigation Management Professional - Columbia Law School / October 2014
 Claims & Litigation Management Alliance - Advisory Board Member

 

Richard A. Fuller is Actuarial Associate/Statistical Specialist for Claims, Information Technology, Corporate Actuarial, and Reinsurance at Arrowpoint Capital (formerly Royal & SunAlliance USA). Rich conducts research and data analysis supporting Claims, Reinsurance, Financial Accounting, Regulatory Compliance, Actuarial, and Internal Audit functions. In this role he provides analysis of workers compensation actuarial reserve estimates, monitors costs and disposition of the claims portfolio, provides analysis and data mining of reinsurance collection efforts, and develops the information technology infrastructure for management reporting.

Prior to his current role, Rich was Actuarial Associate/Statistical Specialist in the Company’s Personal Lines Division where he supported the pricing, underwriting, marketing, financial accounting, regulatory compliance and internal audit functions.

Rich has also held positions as MIS Manager in the Personal Lines Division, Senior Actuarial Analyst and Actuarial Programmer. Since beginning his career at Arrowpoint in 1986, he has gained vast knowledge and experience in personal lines, corporate actuarial, product actuarial and pricing.

Rich is an Associate of the Casualty Actuarial Society. He earned his master’s degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his bachelor’s degree at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Helen is Vice President and Manager of Enterprise Legal Services for the Liberty Mutual Group.  She serves as Vice Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance.  She is also a member of the ACC Law Department Executive Leadership Group.  Helen has had over 30 years of experience at Liberty Mutual Group including various management positions in the Claims and Legal Departments and the Field Legal Organization.  She assumed her current position in 2005, where her responsibilities include managing the outside legal expenditures for Liberty.  Her group is responsible for analytics on $1 Billion of legal spend.  Her responsibilities also include legal finance, technology, auditing and process improvement initiatives for the litigation management function.  Liberty Mutual is a diversified global insurer which ranks 71 on the Fortune 500.  Helen has a Bachelor of Science of Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Susan Grondine-Dauwer owns SEG-D Consulting and provides legal and claims advisory services to insurance and reinsurance companies including expert witness and arbitration work, evaluation of internal and external legal operations, and portfolio run-off analysis and strategy.  She has more than 25 years of claims and legal experience in the P&C industry with much of her professional focus in the run-off sector.  Prior to venturing out on her own she was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for R&Q Solutions, the US subsidiary of global reinsurance services provider, R&Q Investment Holdings, and managed the legal operations of R&Q Reinsurance Company, Transport Insurance Company, Excess & Treaty Management Corporation and Goldstreet Insurance Company.  She also held positions as Chief Claims Officer for R&Q and Transport and served on the companies' Boards of Directors.  Before that, Susan worked for The Hartford Insurance Company's discontinued operations group, Horizon Management, serving as Senior Vice President and Counsel to First State Insurance Company, New England Reinsurance Corporation, New England Insurance Company and Hart Re.  She started her career in insurance with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company and worked in the Home Office Litigation Unit and then the company's original Environmental Department where she managed APH claims and coverage litigation and related reinsurance cessions.  For the past 25 years she has worked extensively in all aspects of reinsurance and run-off portfolio management, direct/assumed/ceded claims handling and dispute resolution.  Susan earned her B.S. degree from Boston College and her J.D. from Boston University School of law.  She is a frequent speaker at industry events including educational seminars.  She is a Certified Arbitrator through ARIAS*US and has been a member of that organization for almost 20 years.  She has served on the ARIAS Ethics Committee, is the co-founder of the ARIAS Women's Networking Group and currently serves on the Publication Committee.  She is an arbitrator with www.Arbitration.com  She is a member of AIIROC and the MassReBar Association and is a past member of the American Bar Association and former chair of the ABA's Corporate Counsel Young Lawyer's Division.  Outside of insurance and reinsurance, she is a active supporter of her local Boys & Girls Club.

Michael Haverson is  Vice President of Litigation Management for Crum & Forster. In his current position he is responsible for Litigation Management, Subrogation, SIU and C&F claims account executives. 

  He has over thirty years experience as an attorney  in claims/ litigation management and dispute resolution. His experience with litigation management includes managing relationships with outside counsel  nationally, drafting and implementing  litigation management best practices, guidelines, reporting standards, budgeting and billing practices and alternative fee structures.  He also has significant experience working with e-billing platforms and  utilizing data metrics and information tools  to analyze legal performance and cost effectiveness.

Mr. Haverson also has a strong background  with respect to complex insurance coverage/bad faith issues and was formerly  a VP of Claims Legal at Zurich  He is experienced with ADR and served in the past as both a mediator and arbitrator.  He has been an instructor at the LMI since 2014.

Michael Leahy was for 35 years the senior partner in the Risk Management and Insurance Law practice group in the California firm of Haight, Brown & Bonesteel. The firm's insurance practice has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the first tier of all firms in Southern California based upon its expertise and reputation. His practice of over 40+ years has been primarily devoted to insurance law and risk transfer issues, including analysis of coverage and reinsurance issues, rendering opinions, drafting insurance policies and endorsements and litigating insurance issues both in bad faith litigation as well as declaratory judgment actions. He has been monitoring and supervisory counsel and national coverage counsel for a number of insurers, domestically and internationally, and has defended professionals in the insurance industry, and has served as an expert witness in extra contractual cases and reinsurance arbitrations.

He has lectured extensively in the United States, the United Kingdom and Asia. He is a member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel and the Professional Liability Committee of the CLM. He is a Cum Laude graduate of the Loyola Law School and is a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel. He has stepped back from the active practice of aw and is now serving as a consultant to companies and lawyers on insurance related issues and as an expert witness.

Mari Henry Leigh is Founder, CEo and Managing Member of Mari Henry Leigh & Associates, LLC.  Mari has more than three decades of experience as an attorney litigating or managing complex litigation on a wide variety of substantive legal disciplines and more than 23 years experience in legal fees disputes, litigation management and law firm and law department or claims management operations, including co-founding a predecessor practice.  A pioneer in the industry, Mari provides corporate clients with comprehensive litigation management and legal operations services, including the efficient execution and implementation of litigation strategies, the implementation of prospective cost containment and cost recovery/reimbursement initiatives (including ESI-discovery initiatives) and budgeting, predictive modeling and financial reporting on mass-tort, multi-jurisdictional litigation and other complex litigation. Referred to as the ‘‘Granddaddy of legal bill review’’ and ‘‘one of the first attorneys people go to [on billing and litigation management issues]’’ by colleagues and clients, Mari is highly skilled at data analytics and has conducted hundreds of legal audits involving billions of dollars in legal costs over the course of her career.  One client has described her as "utterly brilliant" and an "expert in her niche market" and described the practice she has built as "very impressive." In addition to serving as a testifying expert witness, Mari has also served as a facilitator, hearing officer and arbitrator of attorney fee disputes. She has also served on the Eligibility Committee of a mass-tort settlement.  

Vic Marmo is currently the Assistant VP, Global Claims for Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation (MVWC). Vic is a graduate of the University of Maryland, School of Business. He holds an Associate in Risk Management designation is a certified mediator and has extensive training in negotiations, mediation and trial strategy from various law schools including Pepperdine University, Harvard University and Southern Methodist University.
 
Vic began his career with Marriott International 25 years ago and has held several positions including Global Claims Director and Regional Claims Director for the Mid-Atlantic region.  He has recently moved to his current role with MVWC.
 
In his current position, Vic has responsibility for claims oversight of all claims in five lines of insurance (guest liability, workers compensation, employee dishonesty, property and employment practices liability). Vic also is responsible for the claims reporting process, nurse care program and claims audits and is an active member of several national organizations addressing litigation management and other relevant topics for self-insureds.
 

While an in-house attorney, John was one of the earliest adopters of electronic invoicing technology, allowing him to aggregate invoice and performance metrics data, generate litigation management reports, evaluate the effectiveness of outside counsel, implement cost reduction strategies and evaluate internal staffing choices.

After completing a clerkship for a Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court John entered private practice concentrating on the defense of architects and engineers. After leaving private practice he held a variety of legal positions with national insurers in the areas of environmental coverage and litigation management, most recently as Chief Claims Counsel for OneBeacon where he had responsibility for staff counsel, panel counsel, coverage counsel, environmental and extra-contractual litigation. In 2010 John re-entered private practice as a partner with a national defense firm where he concentrated on national program management, insurance coverage and general liability litigation and in 2013 he was appointed General Counsel for the CLM. John was also of counsel to the Wood, Smith, Henning and Berman firm and is now Head of Litigation and Vendor Management for AXA XL.

An attorney for over 30 years, he is "AV" rated by Martindale and is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and  the United States Supreme Court. He is a graduate of Bowdoin College, University of New Hampshire Law School, and has completed management training programs at the Wharton School of Business and the London Business School. He was the 2008 Chair of the ACC Insurance Staff Counsel Committee and a Boston 2012 Top Rated Lawyer (insurance coverage)

 

Matthew Morrison has years of experience focusing on complex claims, litigation management and insurance coverage issues from both the perspective of an insurer as well an attorney in private practice. In his current position with American Faminly Insurance he is responsible for all litigation outcomes across the enterprise including claims and corporate litigation. He is admitted to practice before the state courts of Illinois and Wisconsin, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the Illinois State Bar Association, the Wisconsin State Bar Association, Claims & Litigation Management Alliance Advisory Board and serves as a professor at CLM’s Litigation Management Institute. In 2013 Matt was named Litigation Management Professional of the Year by CLM.

Mike Reid oversees the Midwest Region of claims operations for Strategic Comp, a division of Great American Insurance Group.  Additionally, he leads the Subrogation team and litigation management efforts.  Previously, he was the Director of Litigation, Subrogation, and Medicare at Accident Fund Holdings, Inc., responsible for staff counsel in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, and California while overseeing panel counsel nationwide. He was also responsible for Medicare compliance within the claims operations. Before joining Accident Fund, Mike was part of the management team at Sedgwick CMS servicing the General Motors account. With this account, he led multi-jurisdictional teams for the Midwest and East Coast regions. Prior to working in insurance, Mike practiced commercial litigation and securities arbitration in Michigan.

Mike graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. in Philosophy and cum laude from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, its workers compensation section, and was a Trustee of the Michigan state funds including the Second Injury Fund, the Silicosis, Dust Disease and Logging Industry Compensation Fund, and the Self-Insurers' Security Fund.

Peter is Vice President of Claims in the Commercial Risk Services Division for the ACE Group, one of the world’s largest multiline property and casualty insurers. With operations in 53 countries, ACE provides commercial and personal property and casualty insurance, personal accident and supplemental health insurance, reinsurance and life insurance to a diverse group of clients. The Commercial Risk Services Division, which is based in Alpharetta, Georgia, offers specialty insurance products and solutions for small businesses through several distribution channels. Peter joined ACE in 2012 and is based in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he collaborates with the ACE North America claims division providing oversight in the management of Professional Liability, Property, General Liability and Workers Compensation claims. He also oversees claims managed by Third Party Administrators. Before joining ACE, Peter served as the Northeast Regional Director of Counsel at The Hartford, managing the company’s in-house litigation attorneys in New York and New England. His team of 140 managing attorneys, litigators and support staff handled a pending inventory of 8,000 litigated General Liability and Workers Compensation cases. In his 9-year tenure at The Hartford, he also managed the company’s claims quality program for the Auto and General Liability lines overseeing quality audits at the company’s claims field offices throughout the United States and reporting results and recommendations to the claims leadership team. Before that role, Peter managed the Employment Practices, Miscellaneous Professional, and Architects & Engineers liability claims at Hartford Financial Products in New York City. He also served as Bond Counsel at The Travelers, providing advice to underwriters in mitigating risk and drafting D&O, EPLI and Fiduciary insurance policies and endorsements. Peter earned his B.A. degree at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York and his J.D. at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, California. He practiced litigation, trial and appellate law at law firms in San Jose for more than 15 years representing financial institutions and insurance companies in coverage and liability lawsuits and class actions.

Mr.  Winkler is responsible for overseeing Westfield Insurance’s litigation management and legal research support functions .  He has been a featured speaker and author on the topic of litigation management and the use of technology in enhancing the litigation management process, drawing upon both his experience as a practicing attorney and on his 20 plus years of experience in the claims and litigation management arena. The Westfield Claims Legal Department, which he leads, was recently honored as one of the ten most innovative legal departments in America by Inside Counsel magazine.

Mr. Winkler is an active member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Association of Corporate Counsel, numerous professional organizations including the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the Defense Research Institute and the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance and currently serves as a member and advisor on a number of industry related committees.

Michael is Vice President, Counsel & Litigation Management.  In this role he is responsible for contracting, legal counsel and support to product, underwriting and corporate, and litigation management, which includes management of outside counsel relationships.  Previously Michael was VP, Litigation & Vendor Management.  Michael joined IAT in 2019.
 
Prior to joining IAT, Michael held various roles at Chubb, including:
- Vice President, Head of Litigation and Legal Vendor Management, North America
- Assistant Vice President, Home Office Litigation Management Specialist
- Assistant Vice President and Manager of the Litigation Cost Management Group

From 2001 to 2010, Michael held various roles at The Hartford including:
- Regional Manager of Panel Counsel
- Counsel
- Trial Attorney 

He also held positions with Sentry Insurance as Trial Attorney and The Public Consulting Group, Inc. as a Case Director and Counsel.
 
Michael earned his JD from Suffolk University Law School where in his 3rd year he participated in the prosecutor’s clinical program representing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in criminal proceedings.  Michael earned his MBA from Southern Connecticut State University and his BA in Economics from Albertus Magnus College, where he later served as an Adjunct Professor teaching Business Ethics, Business Law and Sports Law.
 
Michael has been a speaker and faculty member on litigation management and claim topics.  Michael is a Certified Litigation Management Professional (LMI – CLM designation), Certified Claims Professional in Casualty Claims (CLM designation) and a member of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC).  Michael is also a member of NAMWOLF’s Advisory Council (National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms) and IILP’s Advisory Board (The Institute for Inclusion in the Legal Profession).
 
Most recently in October 2022 Michael was part of a team that received the DRI Law Firm Corporate Legal Diversity Award for Mediator Selection Diversity Initiative.