Rene L. Siemens is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Mr. Siemens is a nationally recognized insurance coverage practitioner who represents policyholders in negotiations and disputes of all kinds with insurers. He is also experienced in other complex litigation matters including product liability, mass tort, environmental, and consumer cases.

Mr. Siemens has helped clients recover over $1 billion from their insurers. His insurance coverage practice runs the gamut from major environmental, nuclear, and product claims to large property and business interruption losses; disputes under director and officer, errors and omissions, and fiduciary liability policies; and issues arising under advertising, aviation, clinical trial, credit and mortgage, earthquake, employment, insolvency, internet, IP, life, media, mold, warranty, and workers compensation insurance. He has been lead or co-lead counsel in coverage cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts throughout the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, often in matters involving issues of first impression.

Mr. Siemens is ranked in the top tier of policyholder attorneys worldwide in the PLC Cross-Border Insurance and Reinsurance Handbook. His work has also been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner, Recorder, Los Angeles Lawyer, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Jerusalem Report, Business Insurance, Insurance Litigation, Risk & Insurance, Insurance Law 360, and The Wall Street Journal's Law Blog. He publishes and speaks frequently on insurance issues and co-authored the chapter on alternative dispute resolution in the New Appleman Insurance Law Practice Guide (Matthew Bender 2008).

Rene L. Siemens can be contacted at reynold.siemens@pillsburylaw.com.

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