Mark E. Christensen

Mr. Christensen is copresenting Workshop W6, "Additional Insured Surprise—Horizontal Exhaustion," on Wednesday afternoon. He is the managing partner at Christensen & Ehret, LLP. He devotes his practice to helping Fortune 500 and privately held businesses with their litigation needs and legal problems. He has over 25 years of experience as a trial attorney and over 17 years of experience in law firm management, focusing on strategic planning and attorney development.

Mr. Christensen is a respected trial attorney and has a breadth of experience in products, construction, professional malpractice, and directors and officers liability defense, having represented boat manufacturers, crane and hoist companies, construction contractors, brokers and financial and nonprofit institutions in litigation nationwide.

Mr. Christensen is coverage and reinsurance trial counsel for commercial, excess, and specialty risk insurers. He has represented their interests in losses exceeding $100 million, initiating litigation to void policies, and defending bad faith claims. He also coordinates insurer insolvency issues on national accounts.

In addition to being a speaker at the International Risk Management Institute, Inc. (IRMI), Construction Risk Conference, he also speaks at Lloyd's of London-sponsored seminars in England and at various other industry conferences in the United States. He developed the "American Litigation Process" training materials for various Lloyd's underwriting agencies and is the author of Mediation Handbook, a negotiating paradigm used to resolve high-value, complex litigation.