Mark R. Vespole is a partner in the Newark, New Jersey office of Tressler LLP, a national litigation and insurance services law firm. The author has litigated numerous commercial, insurance and securities matters in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels throughout the country. Mr. Vespole's practice includes insurance coverage and defense litigation arising out of first-party and third-party property and casualty, life and health, professional liability, employment practices and directors' and officers' liability policies, as well as corporate raiding, and securities arbitrations and compliance matters for broker-dealers and registered representatives.

Mr. Vespole has written and lectured extensively for a variety of insurance and securities trade publications and organizations covering a broad range of topics, including insurance coverage, bad faith, corporate raiding in the securities and life insurance industries, noncompete agreements, replacements of life insurance policies, contestability clauses, product liability and mold litigation. He is an Honors graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Seton Hall Law School, and is admitted to practice in New Jersey, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Third Circuit, United States District Court of New Jersey and the United States District Court for the Southern, Eastern, Western and Northern Districts of New York. Mr. Vespole has been certified by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Civil Trial Attorney since 1988, and also is certified as a mediator.