J. Stephen Berry

Biography

Stephen Berry leads the insurance coverage and bad faith team in the Atlanta office of Dentons US. His practice focuses on general liability, IP/media, personal and advertising injury, and construction defect claims. Licensed in Georgia and Louisiana, Mr. Berry’s insurance practice is nationwide; he has litigated coverage and bad faith issues in numerous jurisdictions from coast to coast (including every southeastern state) and frequently advises insurer clients on nationwide coverage developments and helps them take strategic approaches to multi-state disputes.   Mr. Berry is the author of Georgia Property and Liability Insurance Law (West, 5th Ed.); and Appraisal in Property Damage Insurance Disputes (CLM, 2013); Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property and Cyber Claims (Lexis, 2015), and numerous articles on insurance coverage and bad faith issues. He frequently speaks on insurance law to attorneys, claim representatives, in-house counsel, judges, and insurer professional training organizations.  Mr. Berry is an AV-rated attorney, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America (in the practice area of Insurance Law) every year since 2007, as well as Georgia Super Lawyers (category of Insurance Coverage) every year since 2011. Further, Mr. Berry sits on the Coverage sub-committee of Claims and Litigation Management (“CLM”) and recently became the youngest person ever elected to membership in the American College of Coverage and Extracontractual Counsel (“ACCEC”). In addition, Mr. Berry and his teammates at Dentons were named by the Daily Report as the “Litigation Practice Group of the Year” in 2013.

Education

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Admissions/Licenses

• Bar Admissions: GA, LA