Matthew L. Jacobs is a litigator who handles complex, multi-party insurance coverage matters in state and federal courts. Corporations also seek his counsel on the availability of insurance coverage for a wide variety of claims, ranging from directors and officers liability and mortgage lending practices to business interruption losses, product liability and regulatory investigations and environmental matters.  He also regularly advises Fortune 500 companies in the placement of various types of insurance coverage.

Mr. Jacobs has been focusing exclusively on insurance coverage issues for the past 25 years and has been recognized by clients and peers in Chambers USA Client’s Guide for Insurance and the Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.  In 2010, he was recognized as “Author of the Year – Insurance USA” by the Lexology Legal Writing Awards. He has been named a Washington, D.C. “Super Lawyer,” and among Washington, D.C.’s “Best Lawyers.”  Mr. Jacobs is AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale Hubbell’s highest recognition for ethical standards and legal ability.  He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Environmental Claims Journal and has been a member of the Insurance Editorial Advisory Board of Law360.

Mr. Jacobs is a member of the Firm’s Insurance Litigation and Counseling, Reinsurance, Antitrust Litigation and International Arbitration Practices.  He has published and lectured widely on insurance coverage topics and has been quoted extensively on developments in insurance law in national publications, television and radio.  He is the author or co-author of more than 50 papers and articles and has spoken at more than 100 insurance coverage conferences.  He also has co-chaired over a dozen conferences addressing various insurance topics over the past two decades.  Mr. Jacobs also has appeared on the faculty of the ALI-ABA Environmental Litigation Course of Study, as well as the ALI-ABA Environmental and Toxic Tort Conference.