Thomas Berman Email & Phone Number

Before starting the firm of BERMAN & ASSOCIATES in 1991 Thomas Berman had managed and consulted with law firms, corporate law departments, accountancy firms and the Legal Services Corporation for twenty three years. BERMAN & ASSOCIATES was begun and continues to this day as an independent consulting firm working in conjunction law firm, brokers and insurance underwriters throughout the United States, Canada, Eastern Europe and the United Kingdom with professional liability risk issues. Affiliates of the firm are located in Michigan, Atlanta, New York and Illinois.For the last twenty years the firm has worked with over 1600 law firms throughout the world. These have included firms of every kind; from a single lawyer to over three hundred lawyers; from Intellectual Property law firms to Malpractice Defence and Plaintiffs Personal Injury law firms. It’s estimated that BERMAN & ASSOCIATES has accomplished over four times more of such assignments than any other consulting firm in the United States. The firm is hired directly by law firms, through independent brokers and/or insurance underwriters. Over the course of that time, approximately four hundred fifty of these assignments have been with plaintiffs firms, two hundred and fifty with corporate and defence and over seventy with intellectual property firms. Mr Berman is on the editorial Board of Managing Partner Magazine and writes a monthly column. He has written for every major nationwide legal publication in the U.S. and in the U.K. as well as publications such as the California, New York and New Jersey Bar Journals.Today, BERMAN & ASSOCIATES is involved in all phases of law firm practice management including Mergers and Acquisitions, Partnership and Shareholders Agreements, Law Firm Planning, Partner Compensation and of course, Risk Management.Specialties: Law Firms of every practice description including, Intellectual Property, Family, Estates and Trusts, Public Offerings, Securities, Mass Torts and Personal Injury.

Listed skills include Insurance, Risk Management, Professional Liability, Liability, and 15 others.

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  Berman & Associates

  Oct 1991 - Present

  BERMAN & ASSOCIATESBerman & Associates has long been recognized internationally as the nation's premier independent law firm risk management consultant organization. Made up of both non lawyers and lawyers, themselves experts in fields associated with Risk Management and Practice Management issues, since its founding in 1991, its members have reviewed more than 1500 law firms in 45 states, Canada and the United Kingdom. Focusing on Loss Prevention, Analysis and Control, the Firm first pioneered the concept of independent "Law Firm Risk Analysis" for law firms in 1991. This has included ideas such as a basic grading scale of law firm risk potential and a Ten Point Program of Risk Analysis developed initially for Insurance Underwriters and then utilized to the benefit of the greater law firm community.Whether the assignment is to develop a compensation formula or to evaluate a professional liability claim, B & A has the experience, dedication and expertise to accomplish the task.BERMAN& ASSOCIATESSan Francisco Office268 Bush Street, Suite 3400San Francisco, California 94104, U.S.A.Phone 415 861 6032Fax 415 863 6622U.K. 0777 351 3123tberman@bermanassociates.netwww.bermanassociates.net