Practices:

• Litigation
  • Insurance and Financial Institutions

Experience

Stephen Berry specializes in insurance coverage and insurance bad-faith litigation, with particular emphasis on construction defect and catastrophic property damage claims. 

His experience includes reversing a $2 million "set-up" judgment against an insurer in the Supreme Court of Alabama; successfully challenging four million-dollar “Coblentz” judgments in state and federal courts throughout Florida; writing a winning summary judgment brief in the Buckhead daytrader-shooting civil suit; successfully intervening on behalf of Ray Lewis' insurer in the civil trial arising out of the 2000 Super Bowl stabbings; and winning summary judgment in a $7 million copyright/advertising insurance dispute. He has published numerous articles on insurance coverage of construction defect liability, and frequently speaks on that topic to public and private audiences.

Mr. Berry is listed in the 2007, 2008, and 2009 editions of The Best Lawyers in America in the practice area of Insurance Law.

During law school, Mr. Berry served on the Editorial Boards of the Virginia Journal of International Law and the Virginia Environmental Law Journal, and participated in the Moot Court Competition. Before law school, Mr. Berry studied in Germany and Austria and earned a M.A. in European History.

Education

• J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1997
• M.A., University of Virginia, 1993
• B.A., University of Richmond, cum laude, 1992

Admitted

• Georgia
• Louisiana