commercial litigation
01/23/06 06:57 AM
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The firm I'm working for has a transactions group (we write up a contract so one company can buy another company, etc), which I find pretty boring, and I'm thankfully not in that department. The other half of the practice is commercial litigation (companies suing each other, sometimes a private person suing a company, or a company suing a private person, but not usually two private people suing each other). The bulk of the commercial litigation practice is Insurance Defense, meaning when one of our clients, an Insurance company, denies a claim to one of their insureds, and that person sues the insurance company for coverage, we defend the insurance company. I know it sounds dull but I actually really like it. It's fun picking apart the policy language and figuring out what the terms really mean, researching how the courts have interpreted these terms before, etc.
97% of all suits in the country get settled before they reach the courtroom, but I am hoping to get some of the 3% that doesn't, so I can get some courtroom practice. Either way, I'll get to do a ton of writing, which I like almost as much as speaking!
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Amanda
I live in the Big Apple, but I don't eat the skin
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