John Shugrue

Biography

John joined Reed Smith in June 2008 as a partner in the Insurance Recovery Group and is resident in the firm's Chicago office. His practice focuses on representing policyholders in complex litigation and insurance coverage matters involving Commercial General Liability, Directors & Officers, Errors & Omissions, First Party Property and Business Interruption, Pollution Liability and Fidelity coverage. In addition to wide experience with all major U.S. insurers, he is experienced in litigation, mediation and arbitration with Lloyd's of London, and other London and Bermuda market insurers. His significant representations have encompassed major U.S. policyholders such as Nicor Gas, Boyd Gaming Corporation, Tribune Company, Kraft Foods, Valero Energy, Republic Services, and Anadarko Petroleum.

After graduating with honors from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1987, John began his legal career in the litigation department at Jenner & Block in Chicago focusing on insurance coverage matters for policyholders. He was one of the principal attorneys involved in developing Jenner & Block's insurance recovery practice on behalf of policyholders, and  he became a partner at Jenner & Block in 1995. In 2000, he joined Zevnik Horton, a national policyholder firm, as a partner in its Chicago office and chair of its insurance recovery practice. In 2003, when Zevnik merged with Morgan Lewis & Bockius, he opened and became the Managing Partner of Morgan's Chicago office. In 2007, he was made co-chair of Morgan's Insurance Recovery Group.

John is recognized as one of the top policyholder insurance practitioners in the country by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, Legal 500 and Who's Who Legal. He writes and lectures often on insurance coverage topics, including business interruption claims, D&O liability insurance issues, environmental insurance coverage, coverage for emerging areas of tort liability, use of ADR in insurance disputes, and special issues relating to Lloyd's of London and the London insurance market. He has also co-authored the treatise Insurance Coverage Dispute, published by Law Journal Press.

John is a former co-chair of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. He twice co-chaired the Committee's annual meeting, and co-chaired a bi-partisan American Bar Association task force that prepared the Manual for Complex Insurance Coverage Litigation.

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