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New York, NY (March 18, 2010) -- Anderson Kill & Olick is pleased to announce that two attorneys in the firm's New York office, Diana Shafter Gliedman and Lawrence J. Bartelemucci, have been named shareholders.

Ms. Gliedman practices in Anderson Kill's insurance recovery group, representing policyholders in actions ranging from discreet insurance coverage disputes to multi-party, multi-issue insurance coverage litigations, with an emphasis on Directors & Officers Liability Insurance, Professional Liability Insurance and Employment Practices Liability Insurance.

Ms. Gliedman often represents law firms, legal partnerships and solo practitioners seeking to analyze potential sources of coverage and maximize insurance recovery.  Working with Anderson Kill's founding shareholder, Eugene Anderson, Ms. Gliedman represented the policyholder in the frequently-cited case of Rosenberg & Estis v. Chicago Insurance Company.  She is a member of the firm's Financial Services insurance coverage group, which serves clients such as broker/dealers, commercial banks, investment advisors, hedge funds, mutual funds and other financial institutions.

Highly committed to pro-bono work, Ms. Gliedman most recently secured a victory for a Tibetan independence activist in The Matter of the Application for Asylum of Sherab Dorje.

Ms. Gliedman holds a J.D. cum laude and was awarded the Order of the Coif at Fordham University School of Law. She holds a B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Rochester.  A member of the New York State and American Bar Associations, she has published widely on matters of insurance law and coordinates Anderson Kill's quarterly column for The John Liner Review.

Mr. Bartelemucci practices in the area of construction law, representing clients in both transactional and dispute-resolution matters.  Mr. Bartelemucci drafts and negotiates a wide range of manuscript and AIA form owner-builder, construction management, architect, design-build, and development agreements.  He has worked on several major development projects involving the leasing of air rights for construction, and has extensive experience representing hospitals and other institutional clients with their construction needs.  Mr. Bartelemucci also has extensive experience drafting and negotiating site-licensing agreements between real estate owners and telecommunications companies.

Mr. Bartelemucci's transactional construction experience enables him to provide informed and practical counsel when handling construction-related disputes.  He has represented clients in both arbitration and litigation forums in a variety of construction-related disputes, including those involving building collapse, fire loss, construction encroaching on adjacent properties, defective construction, non-payment, change order disputes, and mechanic's liens.  Mr. Bartelemucci has substantial experience prosecuting owner's claims under payment and performance surety bonds, including the defense of subrogation claims made by such sureties.

Mr. Bartelemucci holds a J.D. from St. John's University School of Law, and a B.A., magna cum laude, from Manhattan College.  He is a member of the New York State Bar Association and New York County Lawyer's Association.

About Anderson Kill

Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. practices law in the areas of Insurance Recovery, Anti-Counterfeiting, Antitrust, Bankruptcy, Commercial Litigation, Corporate & Securities, Employment & Labor Law, Real Estate & Construction, Tax, and Trusts & Estates. Best-known for its work in insurance recovery, the firm represents policyholders only in insurance coverage disputes, with no ties to insurance companies and no conflicts of interest. Clients include Fortune 1000 companies, small and medium-sized businesses, governmental entities, and nonprofits as well as personal estates. Based in New York City, the firm also has offices in Greenwich, CT, Newark, NJ, Philadelphia, PA, Ventura, CA and Washington, DC. For companies seeking to do business internationally, Anderson Kill, through its membership in Interleges, a consortium of similar law firms in some 20 countries, assures the same high quality of service throughout the world that it provides itself here in the United States.