William Latza

William Latza
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Credentials & Accolades
Bar Admissions
  • New York
Court Admissions
  • U.S. Supreme Court 
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Degrees

  • J.D., Georgetown University Law Center, 1981
  • Graduate Fellowship, The London School of Economics and Political Science, 1977-1978 
  • B.S., University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1977

Honors & Awards

  • Named a "GC Influencer" by Chambers USA, 2019
  • Listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for Insurance: Transaction & Regulatory, 2007-2016 
  • Named to the New York Metro Area Super Lawyers list, 2015 
  • Named to The Best Lawyers in America list for Insurance Law, 2016 
  • Nationally recommended by The Legal 500 United States, 2016
  • Recipient, Founders Award, Society of Financial Examiners, 2010 and 2017

Teaching Experience

  • The College of Insurance (now the Maurice R. Greenberg School of Risk Management, Insurance and Actuarial Science in the Peter J. Tobin College of Business at St. John’s University), annual guest lecturer on reinsurance regulation for graduate seminar on advanced reinsurance
  • University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, guest lecturer on InsurTech for The Fintech Challenge course
  • More than 60 educational presentations for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners; the insurance departments of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Kansas; the National Conference of Insurance Legislators, the National Conference of State Legislatures; the University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration; the University of Connecticut School of Law; the Society of Financial Examiners; the International Association of Insurance Receivers; the American, New York County and New York City bar associations; and others