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Lloyd Gura and Andrea Fort Co-Authored an article titled, "Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: Reinsurance Issues," Printed in: The Journal of Reinsurance, Fall 2011 Issue Vol. 18 No. 4.

This article appeared in the Fall 2011 Journal of Reinsurance Vol. 18 No. 4, reprinted with permission.

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Newsbulletin: Costantino P. Suriano and Marc Haas Co-aurthored an Article titled "The Calm Before the Solar Storm: Coverage Implications Arising from Solar Events" published on Bloomberglaw.com on January 24, 2012.
 

This article appeared in the January 24th edition of BloombergLaw.com and in the February 6th edition of Bloomberg's Commercial Insurance Law Report.  Reprinted with permission.

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TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee Program:
Business Interruption Issues in Catastrophic Claims
April 26-28, 2012
Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, La Jolla, CA

Mark Katz will be speaking at the TIPS Property Insurance Law Committee Program: Business Interruption Issues in Catastrophic Claims April 26-28, 2012 Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa Sponsored by the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section's Property Insurance Law Committee. For more details click here.

CLM 2012 Annual Conference
March 28-30
Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina
San Diego, CA
 

Philip Silverberg will be speaking at the annual CLM 2012 conference. Mr. Silverberg will present on the topic "COVERAGE - Tripartite Conflicts for Insurance Defense Counsel." For registration and further details please click here.

Emerging Insurance Coverage & Allocation Issues
Thursday, February 23, 2012
The Jumeirah Essex House
New York, NY

Philip Silverberg and Mark Katz will co-chair an upcoming Perrin Conference on the topic "Emerging Insurance Coverage & Allocation Issues."

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Affinia Manhattan Hotel
New York City
March 30, 2012

Lloyd Gura will be speaking at the the eighth seminar in the ARIAS Educational Series for March 30, 2011. The event will begin with a light lunch at 12:00.  For more details please click here.
 

James Veach will be Co-chairing HB Litigation Conference re:

Solvent Schemes - Latest Developments in the UK and US and the Impact on Policyholders & Insurers
January 24, 2012
The Downtown Association
New York City
 
James Veach will be presenting on the topic "Rhode Island’s Break Through Solvent Scheme and its Effect in the U.S. Receivership Market."

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Mound Cotton partner Barry Temkin was quoted extensively on the topic of legal ethics in U.S. Law Week on January 3, 2012.  The article, entitled "Federal Courts play Catch Up on Ghostwriting as States Cheer Unbundled Legal Services," explains that ghostwriting is when lawyers draft pleadings and other legal documents on behalf of clients who sign the documents in their own names.  Ghostwriting "is part of an overall trend permitting limited-scope representation and unbundled legal services, by which clients can retain lawyers for specific individual tasks, and lawyers may explicitly limit the scope of their representation," according to Barry Temkin, the chair of the New York County Lawyers' Association Committee on Professional Ethics, which published a 2010 opinion favoring ghostwriting."  However, lawyers who ghostwrite pleadings for clients have "an ethical obligation to refrain from giving bad advice, and to refrain from promoting or participating in frivolous litigation."
 
For more information, see the annexed article.

Reproduced with permission from The United States Law Week, 80 U.S.L.W. 860 (Jan. 3, 2012).
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Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass is pleased to announce that David A. Nelson and Raymond S. Mastrangelo have been promoted to Special Counsel effective January 1, 2012. 

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