Industries
Insurance
Directors & Officers Liability Insurance
Employment Practices Liability Insurance
Environmental
Insurance “Bad Faith”
Media Insurance
Professional Liability Insurance

Education
J.D.  Columbia University Law School 1991, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
B.A.  Whitman College 1988, with honors

Awards and Honors
Leading Lawyer by Chambers USA 2008
Leading Lawyer by Chambers USA 2007

Bar Admissions
California
District of Columbia

Court Admissions
U.S. District Court - C.D. California
U.S. District Court - E.D. California
U.S. District Court - N.D. California
U.S. District Court - S.D. California
U.S. District Court - District of Columbia
U.S. Court of Appeals - 9th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals - District of Columbia Circuit

Professional Affiliations
American Bar Association
Orange County Bar Association
Professional Liability Underwriting Society
Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Clerkships
U.S. District Court - M.D. Tennessee
Honorable John T. Nixon

 
Terrence  R. McInnis,  Partner

Orange County
(949) 622-2705
(949) 622-2739


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Mr. McInnis is a partner in Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP’s Orange County, California office. Before joining the firm in 1992, Mr. McInnis served as managing editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems and worked as a law clerk for The Honorable John T. Nixon, Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. After practicing law in the firm’s Washington, DC office for several years, Mr. McInnis relocated to Orange County where he has practiced since 1998. He has served as Chair of the Professionals’, Officers’ and Directors’ Liability Committee of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, and is a Vice Chair of that Section’s Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee. He has been a member of the State Bar of California’s Committee on State Bar Approved Professional Liability Insurance, and serves as an arbitrator for the Orange County Bar Association’s Mandatory Fee Arbitration Committee. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Insurance Litigation Reporter.

Mr. McInnis’s practice focuses on the representation of insurance companies in coverage/bad faith litigation in connection with primary and excess directors & officers, employment practices liability, errors & omissions, and miscellaneous professional liability policies, and liability policies issued to nonprofit organizations and associations. Mr. McInnis also provides pre-litigation counseling and advice to insurance clients regarding complex coverage and claims-handling issues.

In addition to his insurance coverage practice, Mr. McInnis maintains a general civil and commercial litigation practice in which he has represented clients in a wide range of disputes involving intellectual property, employment/wrongful termination, environmental defense, accountants professional liability, contractual disputes, and First Amendment and related concerns.

Mr. McInnis is AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell, and was ranked in the 2008 Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers guide as one of the leading insurance attorneys in California. Clients appreciate Mr. McInnis's "thoughtfulness and strategic approach to legal issues."


Publications
2/29/2008  Professional Liability Update 2007: A Year In Review

In The News
6/13/2008  Chambers USA Selects RDB as Leading Insurance Law Firm
6/15/2007  RDB Ranked as a Leading Insurance Law Firm by Chambers USA

Events
5/15/2008  “Choosing the Best Forum For Your Case,” American Conference Institute’s 17th National Advanced Forum on Bad Faith Litigation
11/9/2006  2006 Professional Liability Underwriting Society International Conference
10/5/2005  Insurance Bad Faith Claims in California
8/9/2003  Securities Litigation and Liability in the New Era
8/27/2002  EPL Insurance Conference, Scottsdale Insurance Company
8/11/2002  Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility for Corporate and Insurance Staff Counsel
3/18/1999-3/19/1999  Professional Liability in the New Millenium

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