Mark A. Bradford

represents reinsurers, insurers, banks, and other affiliated entities in complex-often multidimensional, litigation and regulatory actions. He has experience leading multi-person trial teams and has achieved successful results for clients in a first chair trial capacity that on more than one occasion, included recoupment of attorney’s fees and costs for his client. He has successfully handled disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country and the State of Illinois including the Northern District of Illinois and Cook and the Collar Counties as well as districts and counties within Illinois outside the Chicagoland area. Mr. Bradford regularly counsels reinsurers, brokers, lenders, and acquiring institutions in matters involving counterparties who are in receivership or near the zone of insolvency. He also advises on commutations, financial technology; UDAAP; non-deceptive financial and insurance advertising; sales practices; professional liability matters; legal ethics; and regulations pertaining to personally identifiable information.

Mr. Bradford serves as one of Duane Morris’s Loss Prevention Partners with responsibility for the Chicago office. In this capacity, he counsels attorneys within the firm on ethical and professional liability issues.

Mr. Bradford is a 2004 summa cum laude graduate of the University of Illinois College of Law, where he was Symposium Editor for the University of Illinois Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif, and a 2001 graduate of the University of Illinois.

Resume

Honors and Awards

•Listed in Illinois Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2016-2019

•Selected as an Emerging Lawyer, Emerging Lawyers, 2015

Civic and Charitable Activities

•Chicago Legal Prep Mentorship Program
- Team Coordinator, 2012-2014
•University of Illinois Law Alumni Association
- President, 2007-2012

Selected Publications

•Co-author, Subrogation and Related Implications Following Natural Catastrophes, ARIAS Quarterly Journal, September 2019

•Contributor, Duane Morris Insurance and Banking Law Blogs

•Co-author, 6 Upcoming Supreme Court Cases That Will Affect Insurance, Law360, July 19, 2018

•Co-author, Functus Officio: Because All Things Must Come to Pass, the Real Question Is, on What Terms? ARIAS Quarterly Journal, March 2018

•Co-author, Changing Seasons of FDIC Shared-Loss Programs, Duane Morris Alert, September 22, 2016

Selected Speaking Engagements

•Presenter, Climate Change Litigation and the Evolution of Corporate Governance Policies, Presentation to Renaissance Re Executive Management Team, September 26, 2019

•“Regulatory Activism and its Impact on the Insurance Industry,” CLE Presentation to Swiss Re, Armonk, New York, April 18, 2018

•Speaker, The UDAAP Trap: Managing Compliance for the Financial Industry LIVE Webcast, The Knowledge Group, November 15, 2016