Benjamin A. Blume and John D. LaBarbera Join Clark Hill PLC
Ben and John
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Mr. Blume is admitted to practice in all courts in Illinois, the
Co-Author, “Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance: Recent Developments,” TIPS Tort & Insurance Law Journal, Winter 2008.
Speaker, “Personal Injury and Advertising Injury Coverage Under Commercial General Liability Policies,”
Co-Author, “Insurance Coverage Litigation: Recent Developments,” TIPS Tort & Insurance Law Journal, Winter 1992.
Co-Author, “Excess, Surplus Lines and Reinsurance: Recent Developments,” TIPS Tort & Insurance Law Journal, Winter 1992.
Mr. LaBarbera is licensed to practice in the Illinois state courts, as well as the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth and Seventh Circuits and has appeared as pro hac vice counsel in courts throughout the United States. His speeches and publications include:
Co-Author, “Insurance Coverage Litigation: Recent Developments,” TIPS Tort & Insurance Law Journal, Winter 2008.
Author, “Stranger Originated Life Insurance – A Review of the Law on Insurable Interest,” American Bar Association TIPS Life Insurance Quarterly Newsletter, July 2007.
Speaker, “Personal Injury and Advertising Injury Coverage Under Commercial General Liability Policies,”
Author, “To Err is Human, Even for Lawyers,” ABA GP Solo Journal, October 2005.
Co-Author, “Reforming the Asbestos Question: State Ventures Where Congress Fears to Tread (and the beat goes on…),” ABA Litigation Mass Tort Newsletter, Fall 2005.
Co-Author, “The IDC Monograph: The Collateral Affect of the Alford Pleas on the Actual Innocence Rule in Legal Malpractice Actions,” IDC Quarterly, First Quarter, 2005.
Author, “Appellate Court of Illinois Affirms Application of Actual Innocence Rule in Legal Malpractice Action Arising from Underlying Criminal Plea Agreement,” IDC Quarterly, first quarter, 2005.
Co-author, “Intellectual Property Claims: Covered or Not,”
Speaker at the November 2002 Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyer’s Section Insurance Coverage Nuts and Bolts Seminar.
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