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Victor Piekarski, a co-founder of SmithAmundsen and partner in the firm's Insurance Services Group, was recently quoted in Law360. The article, "Insurance Attorneys Dominate at SmithAmundsen," discusses that with 44 percent of its 113 attorneys handling significant amounts of insurance work, SmithAmundsen has the heaviest concentration of insurance lawyers of any firm with 100 or more lawyers, according to Law360's 2009 practice area survey. Piekarski explains that many attorneys started their careers as insurance litigators or as in-house counsel for insurers and maintaining an insurance specialty along with a broader array of practices has been a winning strategy for the firm during the recession, helping it weather the downturn and even continue to grow in recent months. SmithAmundsen has been helped by the nature and diversity of their practice areas feeding from one another and the firm is being called upon to handle increasingly complex and specialized matters largely due to the firm’s diverse array of expertise in insurance litigation, including matters involving personal and commercial lines, as well as excess and surplus insurance and reinsurance.

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