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R. Gregory Rubio

Special Counsel

Washington +1 202 662 5237

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    Greg Rubio is special counsel resident in the firm’s Washington, DC office, where he is a member of the firm’s litigation and insurance practice groups.

    Greg represents clients in complex commercial cases, with a focus on insurance coverage litigation and advice.  Working with commercial policyholders in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, energy and natural resources, sports, and technology, Greg has considerable experience both in litigating and in negotiating commercial resolutions of coverage disputes, including disputes related to complex environmental, toxic tort, and other personal injury claims.

    Greg also maintains an active pro bono practice, including providing advice to a local non-profit on various insurance-related issues.  Greg has also represented numerous pro bono individual clients in a variety of criminal and civil matters, including an Alabama death row inmate in the direct and collateral appeals of his conviction and sentence and an exonerated former prisoner in Louisiana seeking civil damages against state entities for his wrongful conviction and twenty-plus year imprisonment.

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    • Successfully represented major technology manufacturing company in obtaining coverage for cleanup of historical PCB contamination.
    • Represented multinational energy and oil corporation in asbestos coverage litigation.
    • Successfully represented building products manufacturer in obtaining coverage for costs of historical asbestos litigation.

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    Education
    • University of Illinois College of Law, J.D., 2008
        • summa cum laude
        • University of Illinois Law Review, Editor-in-Chief
        • Order of the Coif
    • The University of Memphis, M.A., 2003
    • Rhodes College, B.A., 1993
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    • District of Columbia
    • Illinois
    Pro Bono
    • Represented former Louisiana inmate in civil litigation seeking damages for his wrongful conviction and twenty-plus years imprisonment.
    • Represented inmate in his direct appeal in Alabama state court from a capital sentence.
    • Represented numerous DC offenders in their parole applications to the U.S. Parole Commission.
    • Advised a local DC non-profit focused on the preservation and restoration of the tree canopy along Massachusetts Avenue, on insurance coverage issues.

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