Jeff Stempel and I wrote the bulk of the 3rd edition of General Liability Insurance Coverage – Key Issues In Every State between the spring and fall of 2014. That summer I had the good-fortune to have help with my responsibilities.

Lauren Kelly, fresh off her first year at Villanova Law School, spent eight weeks as my Research Assistant. Day in and day out she did research to identify new coverage case law decided since the time of the second edition. Lauren also had the unenviable task of converting the gazillion Westlaw cites in the 2nd edition to Lexis form. [Lexis had acquired the electronic rights to the 3rd edition and part of the deal was that I’d make the citation changes.] Much about Lauren’s job was tedious – more than I could have handled. But she never complained (at least not to me) and did an amazing job.

Jeff and I were very pleased with how the 3rd edition of Insurance Key Issues turned out. Much credit for that goes to Lauren Kelly and her painstaking research and writing. Lauren’s days as a law student are now over. She graduated from Villanova on May 13. I can’t believe it. It seems like just yesterday that we were sitting in my office discussing new pollution exclusion decisions. Congratulations to Lauren on this wonderful accomplishment!