Janice C. Buchman

Biography

Ms. Buchman is a Partner at Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, and devotes her practice to large, complex first-party coverage matters, fire, water damage and theft claims, insurance fraud, construction defect litigation, reinsurance, bad faith, appeals, and Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR).

Ms. Buchman is a co-author of Scary Stuff: Insurance Claim Files And Exceptions To The Attorney-Client Privilege, which was published in the August 2012 Mealey's Litigation Report.  She is also the co-author of ‘Bad-Faith' Discovery: Claim Files, Training Materials, Personnel Files, And The Kitchen Sink, which was published in the January 2013 Mealey’s Litigation Report and Who Is Entitled to the Claims File?, which was published in the March  2013, Mealey’s Litigation Report.Before joining Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP, Ms. Buchman served as in-house counsel with a large general contracting/construction management company and prior to that was in private practice specializing in general civil litigation. She also served as a mediator in court-ordered civil cases (including construction) and insurance matters and as an arbitrator for both the National Association of Securities Dealers and the American Arbitration Association. Before moving to Florida, Ms. Buchman practiced law in New York where she also researched, co-authored and revised Architect-Engineer Liability Under New York Law.
Ms. Buchman is a member of The Florida Bar as well as the New York Bar and the Pennsylvania Bar (inactive status). She is also certified by the Florida Supreme Court as a mediator, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, the Southern District of Florida, and the Northern District of Florida.
Ms. Buchman graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Economics (after having transferred from The Johns Hopkins University). She received her JD from Dickinson Law School (which is now part of Pennsylvania State University), where she was a member of Law Review and the Trial Moot Court Board. Ms. Buchman also received her LLM in Trade Regulation from New York University School of Law.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: FL