Evan Shapiro
Principal
NEW YORK
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One Battery Park Plaza, 32nd Fl.
New York, NY 10004
Phone: (212) 820-7712
Fax: (212) 820-7740
Email: eshapiro@bswb.com
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| Evan Shapiro focuses her practice
on representing insurers in connection with all
types of business and professional liability insurance
in complex matters including directors and officers
liability, banking and other financial institutions
errors and omissions liability, ERISA and other
fiduciary liability, employment practices liability,
mutual funds and investment adviser errors and omissions
liability, agents and brokers errors and omissions
and insurance company errors and omissions liability.
Evan also has expertise in many of the underlying substantive
issues faced by the insureds in these types of policies such
as securities fraud and derivative actions, accounting fraud
issues, banking liability, corporate governance and insurance
company and insurance broker duties. Further, Evan has regularly
litigated coverage issues in various civil courts as well as
bankruptcy courts.
A significant portion of Evan's practice entails
providing advice pertaining to insurance underwriting and
new product development. Evan has assisted many clients in
drafting both specimen insurance policies and specialized
manuscript policies as well as endorsements with respect to
unique risks. Evan also has aided clients in the regulatory
filing of insurance products.
Evan has and is currently working on a number of
significant cases including the large securities fraud actions
filling headlines today. For example, Evan represented a carrier
in connection with the multiple actions against Lucent
Technologies, which resulted in what the Stanford Law School
Securities Class Action web site lists as the second largest
post-reform act settlement. She currently represents carriers
which insure major accounting firms under attack by the IRS,
the U.S. Congress and clients in connection with tax shelter
products.
Evan writes and has published articles of interest on
developments in the law and has lectured and co-chaired seminars
on directors and officers liability for the Association of the
Bar of the City of New York.
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Practice Areas
Insurance Coverage
Litigation
Regulatory Insurance
Underwriting Consulting
Seriously Outstanding
only 5% selected each year
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Admissions
New York, 1988
U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern District of New
York, 1992
Court of Federal Claims, 1995
Education
J.D., Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence, State University
of New York at Buffalo, 1987
cum laude
Buffalo Law Review, Articles Editor, 1986-87
Buffalo Law Review, Associate Editor, 1985-86
Legal Research and Writing Instructor, 1985-87
B.S., Cornell University, College of Industrial & Labor
Relations, 1984
Honors / Associations
New York State Bar Association
Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Co-Chair of the Insurance Subcommittee on Directors
and Officers Liability, 2002-2003
New York Super Lawyers,
Insurance Coverage,
2006,
2007,
2008,
2009.
Publications
Co-author, Hot
Topics in D&O Claims Handling and Coverage, Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, June 8, 2006.
Co-author, Business Judgment Rule
Protection Prevails: The Delaware Chancery Court Rejects
Liability of Disney’s Board in Ovitz’s Hiring and Firing,
BSWB
E-Alert August 30, 2005
Co-author, A Victory for the Defense: Supreme Court Overturns
Ninth Circuit Decision on Loss Causation in Securities Fraud,
BSWB
E-Alert May 3, 2005
A Guide to Directors and Officers Liability Insurance, Representing
Directors, Officers and Employees in Securities Cases
(MCLE, Inc. 2005)
Enron "101" A Case Study In Directors And Officers Liability
And Coverage Issues, Association of the Bar of the City
of New York, 2002
Note, "Section 3142(e) of the 1984 Bail Reform Act: Rebuttable
Presumption or Mandatory Detention?" 36 Buffalo L. Rev.
693 (1987)
Additional Languages
American Sign Languages
Professional Activities
Faculty and Co-Chair, Seminar on Current Issues in Directors
and Officers and Professional Liability Insurance, Association
of the Bar of the City of New York, 2001, 2002, 2003
Speeches
"Damages Exposure--Issues
to Consider in Discrimination and Retaliation Cases"
at the
Employment Practices Liability Insurance ExecuSummit.
November 8, 2006
New York, NY
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