Christine Heenan, born in Staten Island, New York, is a Partner with the Firm specializing in employment practices, executive liability, and professional liability, including defense of companies and individuals and the monitoring of such matters for employment practices, directors and officers, and errors and omissions liability insurers. Ms. Heenan counsels insurers in the monitoring of complex claims, including nationwide class actions, and represents insurers in domestic and international coverage litigations, arbitrations and mediations. She has extensive experience handling claims involving professional employer organizations, staffing firms and their client companies. Her practice also involves the drafting of insurance policies.

Ms. Heenan has contributed to several articles and lectures on insurance coverage. For example, she published “‘Arising Out of’: Its Meaning and Interpretation in Determining Coverage”, which appeared in the American Bar Association’s Professionals’, Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Committee Spring 2006 Newsletter.

Ms. Heenan is a cum laude graduate of Binghamton University and a graduate of Brooklyn Law School. While attending Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Heenan was an Executive Notes and Comments editor of the Journal of Law and Policy. Her article entitled, “Punitive Damages in Light of BMW of N. Am. v. Gore: A Cry for State Sovereignty”, was published in the Spring 1997 edition of the Journal.

Ms. Heenan is a member of the New York State Bar Association and Federal Bar Council.

Practice Areas
Employment Practices Liability
Director and Officers Liability
Miscellaneous Professional Liability
Insurance Coverage Defense and Litigation

Education
J.D. Brooklyn Law School, 1998
B.S. Binghamton University, cum laude, 1995

Bar and Court Admissions
New York
Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
U.S. District Courts - Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

Other Professional Affiliations
New York State Bar Association Federal Bar Council