Insurance Office

JACQUELINE M. MERSON

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

*-** **** ******, #*

Long Island City, New York 11101

Phone 718-***-****; Email: **********@*****.***

Senior counsel with extensive experience in advising clients on a wide range of complex litigation, risk management and regulatory compliance matters. Demonstrated ability to ensure compliance with applicable standards, policies and procedures. Advanced analytical, advocacy, communication, and presentation skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PRIVATE PRACTICE, New York City 2015 – present

Litigation and Document Review Counsel

As litigation counsel, appear at court conferences, take and defend depositions, prepare written discovery requests and trial reports, undertake complex legal research, prepare and argue motions retain experts and confer on trial strategy. In this connection, assigned by Legal Services of NYC to handle full docket of cases at Brooklyn Housing Court for three-month period. Also successfully litigated appeal of Administrative Law Judge decision in Social Security Disability case before U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and won motion for award of attorneys’ fees. Have also garnered significant experience in document review projects involving analysis of internal corporate communications for relevance, privilege and confidentiality in litigation, mergers and acquisitions and governmental investigations and enforcement matters using Relativity platform.

SENIOR ENVIRONMENTAL CLAIMS COUNSEL, New York, NY 2000 – 2014

AIG Technical Services (2000-2004), Zurich Insurance Co., (2004-2009) and

Home Insurance Co. in Liquidation (2010-2014)

Responsible for resolving $1.2 billion in complex insurance claims across a diverse property and casualty book of business. Specific duties included analysis and interpretation of policy language; supervision and training of entry-level claims counsel; securing reserves and settlement authority from executive management; retaining and managing outside counsel to defend insureds in underlying lawsuits; evaluating reinsurance coverage; recommending policy language and providing trend analysis to underwriting department; representing company in high-level insurance coverage disputes; negotiating settlements in contested cases ranging from $50,000 to $75 million in liability.

IN-HOUSE COUNSEL, Basking Ridge, NJ 1993-2000

AT&T, Inc.

Counsel in AT&T Corporation’s Law Department responsible for handling wide range of global environmental and business law problems on behalf of world’s second largest telecommunications company. Practice emphasized regulatory compliance under national and state environmental laws; defense of civil and criminal enforcement actions, citizens suits, contribution, indemnity and subrogation cases, private rights of action under environmental statutory and common law causes of action; representation of enterprise at agency permitting proceedings; advocacy before USEPA and Congressional committees as member of Washington Clean Air Act and RCRA industry coalitions; due diligence in connection with complex domestic

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and international commercial business ventures as assigned counsel to Law Department’s Strategic Corporate Mergers, Acquisitions and Dispositions Team; management of outside

counsel and environmental engineers; development and implementation of environmental exposures analysis and litigation risk management program as leader of Cross-Business Regulatory Compliance Quality Team tasked with ensuring international environmental compliance of manufacturing and services lines of business.

ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY 1987-1993

Farrell, Fritz P.C., Uniondale, NY

Jackson and Nash, New York, NY

Represented commercial and professional clients in environmental litigation, compliance, enforcement and permitting proceedings. Also engaged in a wide-range of civil litigation matters, including those arising under ERISA, landlord-tenant law, premises liability, land use, insurance coverage, anti-discrimination laws, and other areas of general practice.

EDUCATION

The St. John’s University School of Law, Jamaica, NY

Juris Doctor

Editor, Recent Decisions, New York State Bar Association Environmental Law Section Journal

Legal Clerkships: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of the General Counsel; New York State Attorney General, Office of Environmental Criminal Enforcement; U.S. Federal Trade Commission, Office of Service Industries Practices

The American University, School of Governmental and Public Administration,

Washington, DC

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

Editor, Solar Life Newsletter

Intern, U.S. Senate (Jacob Javits) and U.S. House of Representatives (Edward Koch)

Legislative Analyst, House Republican Conference Legislative Digest

Writer/Editor, Environmental Action

BAR ADMISSIONS, LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES

New York State Bar

U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Pro Bono – Natural Resources Defense Counsel, Legal Aid, New York City Bar Association Immigration Law Project, New York State Unified Court System Attorney Emeritus Program.

Judge, New York State High School Mock Trial Tournaments

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