Mark D. Plevin
Mark D. Plevin is a partner with Crowell & Moring LLP in San Francisco, where he litigates and tries cases in the bankruptcy and insurance coverage areas. He has had lead counsel roles on behalf of bothU.S. and international insurers in some of the nation’s most important asbestos bankruptcy and other mass tort bankruptcy cases. He also litigates major insurance coverage cases and handles trials and appeals in both bankruptcy and insurance matters. In the asbestos bankruptcy area, Mr. Plevin served as lead trial counsel for several insurers in the Plant Insulation, Thorpe Insulation, Federal-Mogul and W.R.Grace confirmation hearings. He is currently acting in a leading role for several insurers in the ImerysTalc America, Kaiser Gypsum and Aldrich Pumps asbestos bankruptcy cases. In addition, Mr. Plevin represents insurers in bankruptcy cases involving mass torts besides asbestos, such as opioids, sexual abuse by priests and others, silica, defective products and liability for wildfires. Outside the mass tort area, he represents both debtors and creditors in non-mass tort bankruptcy cases throughout the country.Mr. Plevin’s creditor representations have included manufacturing companies, banks, airlines, consult-ing firms, insurance companies, shopping center owners and health care providers. He has litigated abroad range of bankruptcy matters, including plan-confirmation objections, automatic stay issues, issues concerning the sale and disposition of significant assets, claim objections, estimation proceedings, motions to appoint trustees, avoidance actions, approvals of settlements, and bankruptcy court jurisdiction. and venue issues. In addition to litigating, he counsels bankruptcy clients in pre-litigation situations, including negotiating prepackaged bankruptcy plans, and with respect to receiverships and corporated is solutions. Mr. Plevin has repeatedly been named one of the top lawyers in both the bankruptcy and insurance fields by Chambers USA in both California and the District of Columbia. He also has repeatedly been listed in The Best Lawyers in America for both bankruptcy and creditor/debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law and insurance law, in the Guide to the World’s Leading Insolvency& Restructuring Lawyers and the Guide to the World’s Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers, and as a Washington, D.C. Super Lawyer in the field of Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights. In 2015, he won the D.C. Bankruptcy Litigation Attorney of the Year category for the 6th Annual GlobalLaw Experts Awards. Mr. Plevin regularly speaks on bankruptcy, insurance and litigation topics. Before starting law school, he was sports director of WCDB-FM and WSUA-AM in Albany, N.Y., where he did play-by-plays of college basketball, football, soccer and NHL hockey. Mr. Plevin received his B.A.in economics summa cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany and his J.D. from theUniversity of Virginia School of Law, where he was admitted to the Order of the Coif and worked on the Virginia Law Review.