Lorelie S Masters

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.