Rebecca Levy-Sachs

Biographical Information

Rebecca Levy-Sachs has practiced in the area of first-party coverage and litigation for more than thirty years. More recently focusing on commercial time element and law and ordinance disputes, she has handled coverage disputes involving a variety of perils, including windstorm, mold, sinkholes, asbestos, builders risk and associated financial losses, boiler and machinery and elevator losses, environmental cleanup, fire, and collapse. She has been certified as a Windstorm Umpire by the Windstorm Insurance Network.

Ms. Levy-Sachs is a regularly recognized lecturer and author at programs presented by the FDCC, the PLRB, the DRI, the LEA, Windstorm, and the ABA (PILC) on property coverage, business interruption, law & ordinance and green buildings, litigation management, Daubert, expert preclusion, spoliation, and e-discovery issues. In 2010, she presented West-sponsored CLE courses on Daubert expert issues to law firms in New York and New Jersey.

—Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2006 to present, Chair, Property Insurance Section; past Chair, Technology and E-Commerce Section, Chair, Technology Committee —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2006 to present, Vice Chair, Property Insurance Section —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2006 to 2008, Vice Chair, Projects & Objectives Committee —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2001 to 2007, Faculty, Claims Litigation Management College and Graduate School, Northwestern University, Emory University —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2006 to present, E-Discovery Task Force —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2000 to 2002, Chair, Management Economics and Technology Section —Defense Research Institute, 2001 to 2004, Board of Directors —Defense Research Institute, 1999 to 2005, Insurance Roundtable Initiative —Defense Research Institute, 1999 to 2001, Chair, Economics and Management of Law Practice Committee —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2002 to 2004, E-Guide Project —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 1999 to 2002, Dean of Technology U —National Association of Fire Investigators, 1999 to 2002, Instructor, Spoliation of Evidence, Fire Investigation & Litigation Program —National Association of Fire Investigators, 1998 to 2006, Member —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2001 to 2002, Vice Chair, E-Commerce and Technology Section —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 2001 to 2001, Vice Chair, Website Committee —Florida Defense Lawyers Association, 2004 to 2005, Handbook Author, Spoliation —Defense Research Institute, 1999 and 2000, Annual Meeting Steering Committee —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, 1999 to 2000, Vice Chair, I3STF (Insurance Industry Internet Standards Task Force) —American Bar Association, 2002 to present, TIPS, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee and Property Insurance Committee —Defense Research Institute, 2000 to 2002, Chair, Website Steering Committee —Defense Research Institute, 2000 to 2001, Small Law Firm Initiative Program Committee, Speaker —Defense Research Institute, 2000 to 2005, Insurance Coverage Committee, Property Insurance Subcommittee —New Jersey State Bar Association, 1996 to 2001, Federal Practice Section —New Jersey State Bar Association, 1995 to 1998, Environmental Section —Florida Advisory Committee on Arson Prevention, 2003 to 2004

HONORS AND AWARDS —Listed in Martindale-Hubbell™ Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, 2011 Inaugural Edition —AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell™ in the areas of Insurance Coverage, Asbestos Property Litigation, Environmental Insurance Coverage, Insurance Fraud, Federal Practice, Complex Litigation, and Technology Law (Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings is a trademark. AV Preeminent is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc.) —Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, John Alan Appleman Award for Outstanding Section Chair, 2010 — —