Jeannie Nguyen
Counsel
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Related services and key industries
Biography
Jeannie Nguyen focuses her practice on advising and defending carriers in insurance coverage matters, with an emphasis on complex, multi-party coverage disputes involving breach of contract, common law and statutory bad faith, and requests for declaratory relief. She has experience with various stages of resolution, such as providing pre-suit coverage analysis and litigation strategy, managing active litigation, and pursuing appeals in state and federal court. Jeannie has extensive insight into federal motion practice and judicial case management as a result of her experience as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Marcia A. Crone in the Beaumont Division of the Eastern District of Texas.
Professional experience
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- Houston Journal of International Law
- Interscholastic Moot Court
- Order of the Coif
- Order of the Barons
- BA, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
- Texas State Bar
- Represented primary and excess insurance carriers in complex, multi-party coverage and bad faith disputes involving general liability, professional liability, environmental, business auto, property, and directors and officers insurance policies
- Drafted motions and responsive briefing, pleadings and written discovery for litigation in various jurisdictions
- Analyzed coverage issues to prepare client reports on litigation strategy and coverage position letters
- Author, "2021 Year in Review: Insurance Law," Texas Bar Journal, January 2022
- Author, "2022 Year in Review: Insurance Law," Texas Bar Journal, December 2022
- Author, "2023 Year in Review: Insurance Law," Texas Bar Journal, December 2023
- "Let Me Estop You Right There: Strategic Considerations Regarding the Estoppel Principle," ABA Litigation Section, 2023 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar
- Asian American Bar Association of Houston, Mentorship Committee Co-Chair
- ABA Litigation Section, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, WIN Regional Conference Co-Chair
- Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas
- Houston Young Lawyers Foundation, Fellow
- Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
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