About
Michael Murphy is the Global Chair of DLA Piper's 300-plus lawyer Insurance & Reinsurance Sector Practice. He represents financial services industry and other clients globally in transactions and business litigation, with an emphasis on reinsurance and insurance-related litigation and arbitration. He has served as lead counsel in hundreds of high-stakes and precedent-setting insurance cases and reinsurance arbitrations, including matters involving securities, asbestos, environmental, pharmaceutical, technology, product liability, employment, breast implant, construction defect, professional liability, directors and officer liability, advertising liability, entertainment, and toxic and mass tort claims. He also has extensive experience in first-party reinsurance arbitration, energy and construction sector claims, class action litigation, proceedings against agents and brokers, and market conduct proceedings.
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- J.D., State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law
- B.A., Canisius College