Ms Lorelie S. Masters > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Washington DC, United States > Lawyer Profile
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices
2200 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, NW
WASHINGTON DC 20037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Ms Lorelie S. Masters
Work Department
Insurance Coverage, Litigation, SAFETY Act, Cross-Border Insurance Coverage, Transactional Insurance, International Arbitration and Transnational Litigation, Arbitration and Mediation
Position
Partner
Career
Lorelie Masters has won significant decisions, trials, and arbitrations enforcing insurance for clients, across the gamut of coverages, representing clients from the Fortune 500 to small businesses and individual directors and officers. A sought-after writer, speaker, and leader nationally and internationally, Ms. Masters served as an Adviser on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance. Named a “top 10” lawyer in DC, she has served on the American Bar Association Board of Governors, DC Bar Board of Governors, and as President of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia. She is author of two well-known treatises, Insurance Coverage Litigation and Liability Insurance in International Arbitration: The Bermuda Form. The English Court of Appeal has called The Bermuda Form treatise, just published in its third edition, the “standard work on the topic.” Among other accomplishments, she helped found the American College of Coverage Counsel and was its second President; and served as national Policyholder Chair of the ABA Section of Litigation’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. She has an active pro bono practice and is a founding board member and now Chair of the Board of the Human Trafficking Legal Center.
Memberships
Admitted to the District of Columbia and New York State Bars
Education
- JD, University of Notre Dame Law School, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Legislation, Thomas J. and Alberta White Scholar, 1981
- AB, Georgetown University, cum laude, 1977
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Insurance > Advice to policyholders
(Hall of Fame)Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP supports clients seeking to recover losses caused by COVID-19 business interruptions, opioid litigation, environmental pollution and cyber-attacks, while also handling D&O matters. Outside of recovery litigation, the practice advises clients involved in arbitrations and supports them in settlement talks, with particular strengths assisting the energy and hospitality and leisure sectors. Syed Ahmad leads the practice from Washington DC, representing clients in complex allocation disputes and rescission claims in addition to D&O, E&O and general liability coverage work. Miami’s Walter J. Andrews represents clients in disputes revolving around business interruption, product liability, construction defect and reinsurance disputes, while DC-based Lorelie S. Masters handles a broad range of claims including environmental, employment and business interruption liability. Andrea DeField, located in Miami, is a cyber insurance specialist, handling matters concerning ransomware, data breaches and social engineering.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame United States > Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Advice to policyholders United States > Insurance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
Firm Rankings
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate