Edward M. Dunham, Jr.

Edward M. Dunham, Jr.

Edward M. Dunham, Jr., a senior member of the firm's Insurance Coverage and Risk Management practice group, concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate and risk management and governance, insurance and reinsurance coverage, Internet and e-commerce risk management and insurance coverage, and commercial litigation. Mr. Dunham's practice includes drafting both faculative and treaty reinsurance agreements.

Along with a business partner of the firm, Mr. Dunham has developed a family of proprietary, algorithm-based risk assessment service offerings that, when combined with services provided by the firm and its business partners, assists insurance and reinsurance brokers, intermediaries and underwriters, as well as policyholders to assess the risks to be insured or reinsured. The family of offerings includes an assessment of and compliance recommendations relative to the numerous regulatory requirements facing corporations, an assessment of the legal, technological and managerial risks of transacting business on the Internet, a HIPAA gap analysis assessment, ISO 17799 compliance, and security threat analysis and capabilities for large corporations and state governmental entities. Mr. Dunham is a frequent lecturer on Internet and e-commerce risks and solutions.

Mr. Dunham is an adjunct professor of Advanced Insurance Law and Risk Management at Rutgers-Camden Law School and the immediate past Chair of the Committee of Seventy, a good-governance watch dog organization. He is a Trustee of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a board member of the International Visitors Council, a member of the Risk and Insurance Management Society (RIMS), the Professional Liability Underwriting Society and the Defense Research Institute. In addition, he is a member of the Federal Courts Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association and a member of the Association's City Policy Committee. Mr. Dunham is also a member of the Insurance Society of Philadelphia.

Mr. Dunham is a naval aviator with more than 6,000 hours of pilot time. During his 14 years of active duty and 24 years in the active reserves, he flew a variety of single and multiengine jet, turbo prop and reciprocating engine aircraft. He holds a civilian instrument rating as single engine (land) and multiengine (land and sea) pilot and is a graduate of the Naval War College. Mr. Dunham is a retired captain in the Naval Reserve, a veteran of the Vietnam War and an avid open-ocean racing sailor.

Mr. Dunham is a 1975 graduate of Harvard Law School and a graduate of the University of Rhode Island.

Representative Matters

· Counsel to AVETEL in a breach of contract claim case; $3M saved - settlement.

· In multi-district, complex environmental insurance coverage litigation, a case in which the client had an insurance indemnification exposure of $40 million. Favorable verdict on summary judgment. Prevailed on appeals to the Third Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court.

· Complex New Jersey state court environmental insurance coverage litigation. First trial to a verdict with allocation procedure under Owens-Illinois. Major victory for insurance industry.

· Counsel to software company in a breach of contract claim case; $2M saved - settlement.

· Counsel to industrial cleaning company in a breach of contract and trademark infringement case; $9M saved business - complete victory at trial.

· Counsel to individual in a breach of contract claim case; $2M saved - settlement.

· Counsel to doctor in a breach of contract case; $56M - settlement.

· Counsel to individual in a breach of Partnership Agreement case; $3M saved - trial to verdict.

Professional Activities

· Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Trustee

· Committee of Seventy
- Chair, 2005 - present

· Adjunct Professor, Advanced Insurance Law, Rutgers - Camden Law School

· Frequent lecturer on insurance coverage, risk assessment and remediation of Internet-related, terrorism and D&O risk issues

· American Bar Association
- Section of Science and Technology
- Section of Insurance Coverage
- Special Task Force for Environmental Insurance Coverage

· Pennsylvania Bar Association

· Philadelphia Bar Association
- Chair, Insurance Committee of the Business Litigation Section
- Federal Courts Committee
- Member, City Policy Committee

· Risk and Insurance Management Society

· Professional Liability Underwriting Society

· Defense Research Institute

· Philadelphia Association of Defense Counsel

· Insurance Society of Philadelphia

Experience

· Miller Dunham & Doering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Founding Partner, Chairman and Shareholder, 1983-1998

· Spector Cohen Gadon & Rosen, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Partner, 1980-1983
- Associate, 1975-1980

· Active Duty- U.S. Navy, 1958-1972

· Active U.S. Navy Reserve, 1972-1996

· Naval Aviator, Captain, USNR-R

· Duane Morris LLP
- Partner, 1998-present

Civic and Charitable Activities

· Committee of Seventy

· Support Center For Child Advocates

Honors and Awards

· Awarded Vietnamese Navy Cross

Selected Publications

· "Insurers vs. al Qaeda: Will Suits Against Terrorists Succeed, or Are They Just Grandstanding?," Washington Legal Times, February 16, 2004

· "Informed Technological and Legal Risk Management Decision Making - Getting There Through all the Clutter," Journal of Internet Law, November 2002

· Co-Author, "Year 2000 Disputes and Litigation: Are There Better Solutions in the Offing?" Inside Litigation, February, 1999.

· Co-Author, "Will General Liability Policies Cover Year 2000 Property Damage?" The Legal Intelligencer, September 28, 1998.

· Co-Author, "First Trial Under Owens-Illinois Finds Insurance Coverage Available at All Times," Coverage, January/February, 1998; Andrews International Reinsurance, February 2, 1998; The Legal Intelligencer, February 2, 1998

· Co-Author, "Pollution Cleanup Has Created a Legal Mess," The National Law Journal, December 12, 1994.

Selected Speaking Engagements

· Panel Chair and Speaker, "Directors and Officers Insurance Coverage in a Sarbanes-Oxley World," Pennsylvania Bar Institute Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 30, 2003

· Speaker, "Federal Courts Update on Hot Insurance Issues," presentation to the Insurance Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 29, 2003

· Speaker, "Underwriting in an Internet World," presentation to The Hartford Insurance Company, April 25, 2003

· Speaker, "Terrorism Risk Insurance," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 7th Annual Insurance Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 11, 2003

· Chair and Panelist, "Internet Insurance Coverage - Assessing the Risks and Getting Them Covered" American Bar Association, mid-year meeting, February 28 and March 1, 2002

· Chairman and Panelist, "Insurance Issues Arising out of Mergers and Acquisitions," The Pennsylvania Business Lawyers' Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 28 and 29, 2001

· Panelist, "The Insurance Industry After Marsh: Implications For Antitrust, State Regulation & Fraud Enforcement" Conference, December 2004

· Co-presenter, "Insurance Products for Internet Liability and Other Business Transactions," Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Business Lawyers' Institute 2000, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 10, 2000

· Panelist, "Insurance and the Internet," Insurance Committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 23, 2000

· Panelist, "Y2K and ADR," Philadelphia Bar Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 26, 1999

· Speaker, "The Year 2000 -- Due Diligence for Wilmington Savings Fund Society Lenders," Wilmington, Delaware, December 11, 1998

· Speaker, "Education and The Year 2000 -- Challenges and Answers," Technology and Managing Your Money, sponsored by Advancement for Delaware Valley Independent Schools, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, December 9, 1998

· Co-Speaker, "The Healthcare Industry and the Year 2000 -- Challenges and Answers," Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania Fall Conference, Hershey, Pennsylvania, October 22, 1998

· Speaker, "High Tech, High Risk -- The Year 2000 in Perspective for Reinsurers," Annual Reinsurance Congress, Hamilton, Bermuda, October 14-16, 1998

· Speaker, "High Tech, High Risk? - The Millennium Bug, Satellites, Telecommunications and Other Digital Risks," Andrews Publications Reinsurance Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 1-2, 1998.

· Speaker and Course Planner, "Insurance, Reinsurance, Accounting and Regulatory Considerations Arising from Year 2000 Issues," Why 2000, Insurance Society of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 28, 1998.

· Speaker, "The Client's Perspective: What You Should Ask Your Attorneys Now," Year 2000 Computer Crisis, The Litigation Summit, New York, New York, March 9-10, 1998.

· Speaker, "The Year 2000 -- Disaster or Opportunity?" 3rd Annual Law Department Leadership Summit, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 29-30, 1997.