Lucas J. Tanglen

Lucas J. Tanglen represents businesses seeking to maximize the value of their insurance assets. His experience representing policyholders in complex insurance matters includes directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance, product liability claims (including asbestos and other mass tort injury litigation), false advertising claims, intellectual property claims, cyber insurance, and environmental matters. In his active D&O insurance practice, Lucas counsels policyholders both in the placement of D&O policies and in pursuing insurance recoveries for settlements and defense costs in connection with securities lawsuits and other claims.

He is a co-author of the Policyholder’s Guide to the Law of Insurance Coverage (Kalis, Reiter, Segerdahl, and Tanglen), a treatise published by Wolters Kluwer. Lucas is experienced in drafting briefs and other court filings regarding complex issues of first impression and in taking depositions in insurance coverage actions. In his pro bono practice, he successfully argued a prisoner's appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Recognized by The Legal 500 United States as a Recommended Lawyer for Insurance: Advice to Policyholders, 2024-2025

“ESG — what directors and officers need to know about insurance,” Reuters Legal News, 29 July 2022

“The Russia-Ukraine conflict and insurance for state-sponsored cyberattacks,” Reuters Legal News, 25 March 2022

Renewed for Another Season: International Cyberattacks on the Entertainment Industry, Entertainment and Sports Lawyer, American Bar Association Forum on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, Fall 2019

Cyber Insurance: Emerging Topics and Recent Cases, K&L Gates Insurance Coverage Training Series, Presentations, March 20, 2019

What Corporate Practitioners Need to Know About Using Insurance for Cyber Liabilities, K&L Gates Insurance Coverage Training Series, Presentations, January 10, 2019

GDPR Is Here. Is Your Cyberinsurance Ready?, Insurance Coverage WestLaw Journal, volume 28, issue 43, August 2018

The Future of Cyber Insurance, K&L Gates Insurance Coverage Training Series, Presentations, July 11, 2018

Concussions and Coverage: Insurance for Claims Alleging Long-Term Brain Injuries, Including CTE, Entertainment & Sports Lawyer (ABA), Fall 2017

Insurance Coverage for Intellectual Property Claims, K&L Gates Insurance Coverage Training Series, Presentations, May 21, 2014

Georgetown University Law Center (cum laude; The Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, Executive Editor)

J.D.

2011

University of Montana

B.A.

2004