Kathleen represents insurance carriers as coverage and monitoring counsel, specializing in claims under Directors and Officers, Employment Practices, Fiduciary Liability, Professional Liability, and Excess policies. She has extensive experience assessing the coverage afforded under these policies for all forms of civil and criminal litigation, including securities litigation, shareholder derivative suits, governmental investigations, employment practices claims, civil rights claims, ERISA and other benefit-related claims, professional malpractice claims, antitrust, and general commercial litigation.

Serving as monitoring counsel, Kathleen maintains contact with defense counsel and insureds regarding litigation status and strategy throughout the course of underlying litigation and provides insurers with on-going analysis of their insureds’ potential liability and damages. She also monitors defense counsel fees and costs, negotiates allocation agreements regarding defense costs and settlements and represents insurance carriers at settlement conferences and mediations.

  • Boston Bar Association
  • American Bar Association
  • Professional Liability Underwriting Society
  • Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Bar Association