Joseph P. Monteleone

Joseph Monteleone is a Partner in our New Jersey and New York offices. He practices primarily in the areas of professional liability, errors and omissions (E&O), directors’ and officers’ (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL) and other claims-made insurance products, providing coverage counseling, claims monitoring, expert witness services, mediation and arbitration services, policy and endorsement drafting and other consultative services on claims management and underwriting issues.

He has over twenty-five years of experience in the insurance arena, both in the private practice of law and as an insurance company claims executive. He is a frequent writer and speaker on topics within his practice areas, having written over eighty papers, book chapters and texts. He has made almost two hundred presentations within the U.S., Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Ireland, The Netherlands and Singapore.

Mr. Monteleone is a recognized and acclaimed authority in his field, and is active in the leadership of the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS) and the American Bar Association (ABA). He serves on the Insurance Advisory Council of Mealey Publications, and has been selected as the chapter upkeep and contributing author on D&O and Related Forms of Liability Insurance in Matthew Bender & Company’s Securities Law Techniques treatise. Mr. Monteleone was recently cited for excellence in Chambers USA’s America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He has also been recognized as one of the top insurance coverage attorneys in New York, most recently in the 2007 New York Super Lawyers magazine.

He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, having received his J.D. from New York Law School, and a M.A. and B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and St. John’s University, respectively.