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Ronald Schiller, Chair of Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller, has a broadly diversified trial, appellate and arbitration practice. Ron is a business trial lawyer, appellate lawyer and counselor. Ron advises financial institutions, insurers and reinsurers, technology companies, and other businesses in high-stakes litigation matters, particularly where taking the case through trial or appeal needs to be part of the client’s arsenal. Ron and his trial teams have prepared to try and tried two to four cases a year in courts and before arbitration panels every year for more than a decade. He and his teams have also prepared and argued appeals in appellate courts around the country at the rate of several a year. Most of this work has been for an array of insurers and reinsurers in sophisticated coverage, bad faith, and reinsurance disputes. A substantial part of this practice includes representing insurers and reinsurers in business disputes against financial institutions, other large companies, and healthcare and managed care companies on E&O, D&O, professional liability, reinsurance, and ERISA coverage disputes. The firm’s practice extends to trial and appeals courts in more than 25 jurisdictions. These cases include disputes in the billions of dollars. Many of these matters have helped define the coverage exposure in the state, with several cases even now poised to clarify the scope of coverage or exclusions under California, Washington State, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Louisiana law. The respected English publisher Chambers & Partners has recognized Ron in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business numerous times, noting that clients admire him as “someone who consistently wins big cases.” Chambers USA has further stated: “He is a particularly experienced adviser of businesses and insurers in litigation avoidance matters and settlement strategies. He exhibits further expertise in complex coverage cases and reinsurance disputes. Sources praise him for his clarity, stating that he is able to take ‘complex analytical work, distill it down, synthesize it and navigate it for his clients.’” He has been repeatedly named a Band 1 Insurance attorney by Chambers USA, with the publication calling him “outstanding and one of the best lawyers in Pennsylvania” and noting that “he knows his way around the courtroom and is very effective.” In 2020, Ron was recognized as one of the Best of the Bar by the Philadelphia Business Journal, an award which honors the top attorneys in the region based on the high quality of their work and their commitment to improving the practice of law. He has repeatedly been selected by his peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer and has been named in the Best Lawyers in America.
