- Admitted as a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel (2013)
Admission
- New York
- US Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
- US District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York
- US Supreme Court
Education
- University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, JD, 1993
- Middlebury College, BA (cum laude), 1990
Max is a Partner in the New York office and specializes in insurance coverage litigation in the trial and appellate courts. He was admitted to the New York State bar in 1994, and is also admitted to practice in all the New York federal courts and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Earlier in his career, Max was the managing attorney of the in-house coverage law firm of and coverage counsel to Tower Group Companies, a nationwide group of property and casualty insurers, and served in that same capacity for AmTrust North America. He has more than 25 years of experience handling and supervising coverage litigation both in New York and nationwide, involving a wide variety of issues including commercial general liability, personal and advertising injury, workers’ compensation and employers’ liability, commercial property, homeowners, umbrella and directors’ and officers’ insurance. He also has extensive appellate experience, having briefed and argued over 50 coverage-related appeals.
In recognition of his prominence in the insurance coverage litigation field, Max was admitted in 2013 as a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra Contractual Counsel.
