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Lewis E. Hassett
Atlanta, GA
(404) 504-7762
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Education
University of Miami, B.B.A., cum laude, 1976
University of Virginia, J.D., 1979
Professional Experience
Lewis E. Hassett is Co-Chairman of the firm’s Insurance and Reinsurance Practice. Mr. Hassett’s practice concentrates on complex civil litigation involving insurance and reinsurance matters, including coverage disputes, insurance product issues, agency matters, title insurance and title issues, real estate and investment disputes, business torts, RICO claims, class actions and insurer insolvencies. Mr. Hassett has been named to Euromoney’s Guide of the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, has been named a “Georgia SuperLawyer” in business litigation, and has been listed in Georgia Trend Magazine’s “Legal Elite.”
Mr. Hassett has extensive experience in complex and multiple parallel actions, in pre-trial, trial and appellate advocacy, and in arbitrations. Mr. Hassett’s investment practice covers disputes regarding real estate and other investments, including creditor and contract issues. Mr. Hassett’s insurer insolvency practice includes the representation of receivers, reinsurers and acquiring insurers. Mr. Hassett has been appointed to represent insurance commissioners in various insurer insolvency matters.
Mr. Hassett is on the Editorial Board of the Insurance Law and Litigation Week, published by Strafford Legal Publications; is on the Editorial Board of the Insurance Coverage Law Bulletin, published by American Law Media, is on the Editorial Board of Reinsurance published by Harris Martin; and is the Eleventh Circuit editor for the most recent Handbook on Insurer Insolvency, published by the American Bar Association. He currently serves on the Education Committee of the International Association of Insurance Receivers. Mr. Hassett is a frequent speaker on insurance and reinsurance matters and has served on the faculty at training seminars for reinsurance arbitrators organized by ARIAS-US. Appointed by Governor Roy Barnes in 2002, Mr. Hassett has served on the Board of Commissioners of the Georgia Commission on Equal Opportunity. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Orchestra Atlanta. Mr. Hassett serves as editor of the firm’s Insurance/Reinsurance/Healthcare Review. Mr. Hassett has been inducted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society consisting of less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers.
