PLUS Podcast: The Precipice Episode 1

Peter Biging is an accomplished trial and appellate attorney with more than 30 years of experience as a litigator in the state and federal courts of New York. His practice focuses on litigation involving directors and officers, financial institutions and defense of management and professional liability claims, including the defense of a variety of professionals against errors and omissions claims, labor and employment practices litigation, commercial litigation, municipal liability litigation, and professional liability coverage work. His work as a litigator includes defending a variety of financial service professionals, including insurance agents and brokers, investment advisers, accountants, broker-dealers and their registered representatives. He also regularly represents lawyers, real estate and title agents, and a variety of miscellaneous professionals. Peter regularly handles complex, high-stakes commercial litigations and claims involving allegations of fraud or malfeasance, as well as litigations of non-solicitation/non-compete disputes. A partner in the firm's Manhattan offices, he heads up the Goldberg Segalla metro area Management and Professional Liability practice, and is Co-chair of the M&PL practice group nationally.  Peter is widely recognized as an authority on D&O, management and professional liability, E&O, EPL, and professional liability coverage issues. In addition to regularly writing and presenting to national audiences on these topics, he is active in a number of organizations devoted to the education and development of lawyers involved in management & professional liability defense work, including his current role as a member of the Board of the Professional Liability Defense Federation (PLDF) (for which he currently serves as president-elect), various posts within the American Bar Association’s Tort, Trial & Insurance Practice Section (TIPS) (including Chair of the Editorial Board of The Brief, the TIPS flagship magazine), and his active participation in the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), and the Claim and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), for whom he has written numerous articles, given numerous presentations, and served on several committees. He is regularly recognized as a New York metro area Super Lawyer in Professional Liability Defense, is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell as having the highest levels of skill and integrity, and has been selected a Top 100 Bet the Company Litigator.  

Bruce Green is the Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He currently chairs the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility. He previously chaired the ethics committees of the New York State Bar Association, the New York City Bar, the ABA Section of Litigation, and the ABA Criminal Justice Section. He is co-author of Professional Responsibility: A Contemporary Approach (West Publ., 5th ed. 2023).  

John Muller leads the Lawyers Professional Liability underwriting group at Risksmith Insurance Services. He has over 20 years of experience in Lawyers Professional Liability, starting his career as a coverage lawyer, then a broker, and now for the last 15 years as an underwriter. John underwrites law firms from 5 attorneys up to large multinationals.