Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense
- Telephone: 617-988-8050
- Fax: 617-988-8005
- E-Mail: docket@coughlinbetke.com
- Website: www.coughlinbetke.com
Established: 1996
Practice Areas
- Architects and Engineers
- Casualty
- Civil Rights
- Construction Law
- Contract Disputes
- Creditor Rights
- Employment Law
- Environmental Law
- Fire
- Fraud
- Insurance Coverage
- Legal Malpractice
- Personal Injury
- Premises Liability
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Property Damage
- Real Estate
- Tort Litigation
- Transportation
About Us
Coughlin Betke places high value on the relationships we cultivate with our clients and our approach is tailored to their unique objectives, business concerns, corporate missions and litigation philosophies. Our clients rely on our firm's extensive trial experience to guide the handling of each matter. Whether a matter is best resolved by mediation, arbitration, settlement negotiations or trial, clients of Coughlin Betke know their matters have been strategically developed and positioned by experienced trial attorneys for a superlative outcome.
We are proud to work among our exceptional attorneys and support staff. We hold leadership roles in industry organizations including DRI (formerly known as the Defense Research Institute), the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC), the Association of Defense & Trial Counsel (ADTA), the Litigation Counsel of America (LCA), the Counsel on Litigation Management (CLM) and numerous other state and federal bar associations. Coughlin Betke LLP holds an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings.
Additional Locations
- Providence, Rhode Island
- 10 Dorrance Street, Suite 700
- Providence, Rhode Island 02903
- Telephone: 401-519-3637
- Nashua, New Hampshire
- 20 Trafalgar Square
- Nashua, New Hampshire 03063
- Telephone: 603-589-4025
- Hartford, Connecticut
- 100 Pearl Street, 14th Floor
- Hartford, Connecticut 06103
- Telephone: 860-249-7020
Client Information
Insurance Clients
- ACE USA
Non-Insurance Clients
- Carl Warren & Company
- Costco Wholesale Corporation
Personnel Information
Partners
Emily G. Coughlin
Boston, MA
- Telephone: 617-988-8046
Admitted
- Massachusetts, 1989
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Memberships:
- American and Massachusetts Bar Associations
- Mass. Joint Bar Committee on Judicial Appointments (2010-2013)
- MBA Task Force on the Future of Preemptory Challenges (2009-2011)
- MBA Task Force on Plain English Jury Instructions (2009-2010)
- Mass. Defense Lawyers Association (President, 2009-2010; Board of Directors and Officers, 2002-Present)
- Defense Research Institute (Mass. State Representative, 2010-2013; State & Local Bar Relationship Committee)
- International Association of Defense Counsel
Education:
- Brown University, B.A. (cum laude), 1984
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 1989
Christopher G. Betke
Boston, MA
- Telephone: 617-988-8047
Admitted
- Massachusetts, 1988
- New York
- New Hampshire
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships:
- Defense Research Institute (Professional Liability Steering Committee)
- Claims & Litigation Management Alliance
- Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
- University at Albany, Nelson Rockefeller School of Public Affairs and Policy, B.A. (cum laude), 1985
- Boston College Law School, J.D. (cum laude), 1988
Andrew R. Ferguson
Boston, MA
- Telephone: 617-988-8039
Admitted
- New York, 1995
- Massachusetts
- Rhode Island
- New Hampshire
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, District of New Hampshire
Memberships:
- American, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New York State Bar Associations
- Defense Research Institute
- Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association
Education:
- Colgate University, B.A., 1991
- Albany Law School of Union University, J.D. (with honors), 1994
Of Counsel
- Kevin J. O'Leary
- Elizabeth Doubleday
- Tom Digangi
Associates
- Rebecca Barros
- Courtney Hays
- Benjamin Levites
- Matthew Manuszak
- Marc-Daniel Paul
- Christina Zandri
Service Areas
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA 46 miles
Providence, Rhode Island, USA 50 miles
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