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Mary E. McCutcheon, Partner
Mary E. McCutcheon, the chair of the firm's Construction and Insurance Department, represents corporations, public entities and individuals in a wide variety of insurance coverage disputes.
She has extensive experience representing clients in securities fraud, intellectual property, technology errors and omissions, employment, aviation and other forms of products liability, environmental, construction and civil rights claims.
Ms. McCutcheon also advises clients on how to transfer risk and handle claims under both traditional and self-insurance programs. In particular, she has special expertise advising companies and individual directors regarding issues involved in placement of directors' and officers' liability insurance, as well as handling claims that arise in this context.
Ms. McCutcheon's clients include Con-way, Inc., NVIDIA, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Seagate Technology, Connex Railroad, Novartis Corporation, VeriSign, Inc. and Visa, Inc.
Law & Politics recognized Ms. McCutcheon as one of the leading insurance attorneys in California in the 2007 Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Attorneys. She has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer, as well as one of the Top 50 Women Super Lawyers, for the past several years.
Ms. McCutcheon is the past president of the board of directors of the National Center for Youth Law, and continues to serve on the Board. She is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco's Committee on Attorney Fee Disputes and received the Bar Association's Award of Merit for her service as chair of that Committee.
She is a past member of the editorial boards of the ABTL Newsletter and the CGL Reporter. She edits the California Practice Guide "Insurance Litigation" chapter on Directors & Officers Liability Insurance. Ms. McCutcheon speaks on insurance topics at a variety of professional conferences, including the Stanford Directors' College, PLUS and Strafford.