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Jill B. Berkeley
321 North Clark St.
Suite 3400
Chicago, IL 60654
+1 312.846.5675
+1 312.275.7780 (Fax)
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Jill Berkeley, Co-Chair of Howrey's Insurance Recovery practice, has extensive experience representing policyholders and claimants in coverage litigation involving toxic torts, environmental, construction, products liability, intellectual property, and excess liability matters. In addition to litigation, she counsels clients on issues of coverage and risk management under all forms of commercial policies including general liability, property and builder's risk, personal and advertising injury liability, directors and officers and professional liability. She routinely assists clients in the review and drafting of policy forms and endorsements.
Ms. Berkeley is known as "an attorney who is creative in her problem-solving and excellent in negotiating." She has been called the "coverage lawyer's coverage lawyer." She was selected as one of Business Insurance’s "Women to Watch" in 2006. She is the 2005 recipient of the Andrew Hecker Memorial Award presented by the American Bar Association. She has been listed in Chambers USA Policyholder Nationwide Rankings, 2008; Insurance Coverage Litigation, Illinois Rankings, Leading Individuals 2005-2008; Illinois 2006 - 2007 Super Lawyers "Top 100 Attorneys and Top 50 Female Attorneys;" Leading Lawyers of Illinois "Top 100 Attorneys and Top 50 Leading Women Business Lawyers in Illinois 2006-7."
She was the author and is current editor of the CGL Reporter, The Insurance Coverage Litigation Handbook and was the editor of The Policy, the quarterly newsletter published by the Illinois State Bar Association (1986-1998). She created a computerized database that indexes all Illinois insurance cases summarized in The Policy since 1986, and maintains The Policy Internet Edition, currently housed on Howrey’s Web site.
"Howrey's clients benefit from our team's long-time concentration in coverage law and the breadth of our experience as a top defense and commercial insurance coverage law firm. Howrey's highly-experienced coverage trial counsel practice in an international, big-firm setting dedicated to the policyholder perspective without potential conflicts from insurer representation."
Representative Highlights
- Aetna Cas. & Sur. Co. v. O'Rourke Brothers, Inc. Obtained a ruling from the Illinois Appellate Court on application of estoppel, number of occurrences and the duty to defend misrepresentation claims.
- American Economy Insurance Co. v. Holabird & Root. Obtained a ruling from the Illinois Appellate Court affirming additional insured coverage for architect in subcontractor's CGL policy.
- American States Ins. Co. v. Koloms. Obtained an appellate court ruling and wrote the briefs in the precedent-setting Illinois Supreme Court decision rejecting application of the absolute pollution exclusion to a release of carbon monoxide from a landlord's furnace.
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Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana
Education
- Northwestern University School of Law (JD, 1975)
- University of Michigan (BA, Journalism, 1972) High Distinction, High Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
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