Roger E. Warin

Partner

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Roger Warin is a partner in the Washington office of Steptoe & Johnson LLP and Chair of Steptoe's Executive Committee. For more than 30 years, Mr. Warin has successfully handled a wide range of complex commercial litigation, appearing in courts throughout the United States as well as in various arbitral forums. For more than two decades, he has been lead counsel in representing insurers in numerous major nationwide insurance coverage and reinsurance disputes involving hurricane, financial products, event cancellation, pharmaceutical and medical device claims, professional liability, asbestos, toxic substances, and environmental claims. His cases have also involved securities fraud, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, libel, trademark, products liability, directors' and officers' liability, voting rights, employment discrimination, attorneys' fees, First Amendment, legal malpractice and other professional liability, negligence, real estate, surety, construction, environmental, toxic tort, and insurance coverage claims. He has represented dozens of national law firms in defense of legal malpractice and professional negligence claims and in connection with a wide range of attorneys' fees disputes. Mr. Warin is recognized as one of the leading legal malpractice defense lawyers in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

Mr. Warin is also a successful appellate advocate, having argued more than 20 cases in various federal circuit courts of appeals and state supreme courts.

Mr. Warin is a frequent lecturer and author on insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes, legal malpractice claims, commercial litigation, and attorneys' fees litigation. 

Noteworthy

• Recommended in Legal 500 US 2011 as a Leading Lawyer for Insurance: Advice to Insurers
• Lawdragon 3000 Leading Lawyers in America, 2011
• Named a Top Lawyer in Insurance by Washingtonian magazine, 2011
• Received a #1 Ranking in Chambers USA 2010-2011: America's Leading Business Lawyers; Insurance: Dispute Resolution: Insurer (Nationwide) and Insurance: Insurer (District of Columbia)
• Distinguished as a Top 100 attorney by Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2011 
• Listed in Washington, DC Super Lawyers 2007-2011
• Named Washington, DC Insurance Lawyer of the Year for 2010 by Best Lawyers
• Listed in Best Lawyers in America 2005-2012 for Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice Law, and Mediation
• Received a #1 Ranking in Chambers USA 2008, America's Leading Business Lawyers; Insurance: Insurer Firms and received a #1 Ranking in Insurance: Insurer Firms for the District of Columbia
• Listed in Who's Who Legal for Insurance & Reinsurance, 2011
• Wiley A. Branton Award 2005, Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
• EuroMoney's Expert Guide to the World's Leading Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers (2006, 2008, 2010)
• EuroMoney's Expert Guide to the Best of the Best USA (2007, 2009, 2011)

Select News & Events

• Washington Post Quotes Steptoe’s Roger Warin on Firm Promotions
• Washingtonian Names Nine Steptoe Partners ‘Best Lawyers’
• Steptoe Receives 67 Individual Mentions from Best Lawyers
• Steptoe Receives 13 Practice, 45 Individual Mentions in Legal 500 United States 2011
• Washington, DC Super Lawyers Honors Steptoe Attorneys
• Panelist: “Exploration of Legal Malpractice Defenses,” April 28, 2011, 2011 ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference, Boston, MA
• Steptoe Receives 18 Practice, 56 Individual Mentions in Chambers USA 2011

Professional Affiliations

• Board Member, Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
• Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
• Fellow, American Bar Foundation
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section and Tort and Insurance Practice Section
• Barristers
• Board Member, Council for Court Excellence
• Member, Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity