Mr. Pierce served on the CGL Reporter Editorial
Board 2011–2012, where he summarized bad faith and errors and omissions
cases.
Mr. Pierce has more than 25 years of litigation experience, concentrating
on appellate practice, insurance coverage, defamation, and civil and
commercial litigation. He has handled numerous appeals in his career,
appearing before the New York State Court of Appeals, all four departments of
the state's appellate division and in the First, Second, Fourth, and
Eleventh U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals. Mr. Pierce has served as trial and
appellate counsel in successful actions for defamation and insurance bad
faith. He has authored several publications on appellate practice and
insurance coverage and lectures on behalf of the ABA, NYSBA, and the New York
State Office of Court Administration on appellate advocacy and insurance
coverage litigation. Prior to joining the firm, he served as confidential law
clerk to the Honorable Richard D. Simons, New York State Court of
Appeals.
Mr. Pierce received his bachelor of arts, summa cum laude, from St.
Lawrence University and his juris doctor degree, summa cum laude, from
Syracuse University College of Law, where he has served as editor-in-chief of
the Syracuse Law Review.