With nearly 20 years of experience representing policyholders in pursuing insurance claims and litigation, Tara Kowalski has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for policyholder clients. She has extensive experience with various types of insurance coverage and claims, including commercial general liability (CGL), professional liability, employment practices liability (EPLI), errors and omissions (E&O), product liability, intellectual property, builders risk, property, business interruption, extra expense, and bad faith. She has represented policyholders in a broad array of industries, including consumer products, technology, real estate, fashion/apparel, hospitality, manufacturing, education, financial services, telecommunications, railroad, and medical.
Tara also maintains an active commercial litigation practice in other areas, including contract and indemnity, and has represented clients in all stages of litigation in state and federal courts throughout the United States.
Tara frequently writes and speaks on insurance coverage issues. She served as co-chair of the Business Interruption Subcommittee of the American Bar Association's Insurance Litigation Committee. She has been recognized repeatedly as a "Super Lawyer," "Top LA Women Lawyer," and "Rising Star" by the publishers of Los Angeles. In 2013, she was named a "Rising Star Under 40" by Law360, one of only two policyholder lawyers named in the United States.
- University of California, Davis (J.D. 2002; Editor-in-Chief, Law Review; Witkin Award for Academic Excellence in Torts); University of California, San Diego (B.A. magna cum laude 1998)
- California and U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Central, and Northern Districts of California
Best Lawyers in America, recognized for insurance law
Southern California Super Lawyers
"The Top LA Women Lawyers" — Los Angeles magazine
"Rising Star Under 40 in Insurance Law" — Law360
"Rising Star" — Southern California Super Lawyers
- Legal extern to Senior Judge Arthur R. Alarcón, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit (Summer 2000)