Roger Warin

Insurance & Reinsurance | Commercial Trials & Litigation | Professional Liability | Securities Enforcement | Financial Services

Roger Warin is a trial lawyer who served as chair of Steptoe from 2003-2013. While serving as Steptoe's chair, Roger spent more than 100 days in trial.

For more than 40 years he has successfully handled a wide range of complex commercial litigation, appearing in courts and trying cases throughout the United States as well as in various arbitral forums. For more than three decades, he has been lead counsel in representing insurers in numerous major nationwide insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes involving hurricane, financial products, fine art, event cancellation, pharmaceutical and medical device claims, professional liability, asbestos, toxic substances, and environmental claims.

For ten years, Roger served on the board of the Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society, Inc. (ALAS) serving as chair for two years. ALAS is a monoline professional liability insurer which is the largest insurer of lawyers in the US.

Roger has been lead counsel in cases involving securities fraud, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), libel, trademark, products liability, directors' and officers' liability, employment discrimination, attorneys' fees, defamation, legal malpractice and other professional liability, negligence, real estate, surety, construction, environmental, toxic tort, and insurance coverage claims. He has represented dozens of international law firms in defense of legal malpractice, professional negligence and ethics claims, and in connection with a wide range of attorneys' fees disputes.

Roger is recognized as one of the leading legal malpractice defense lawyers in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Roger is also a successful appellate advocate, having argued more than 20 cases in various federal circuit courts of appeals and state supreme courts.

Roger has also served as an arbitrator in insurance coverage and professional liability disputes.

Chair of Board, Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society (2014-2016)

Board Member, Attorneys' Liability Assurance Society (2008-2019)

Board Member, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (1982-2017)

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Litigation Section and Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association

Board Member, Council for Court Excellence