New York Law School (J.D., magna cum laude, Visual Scholarship Web Editor, New York Law School Law Review); Pennsylvania State University (B.A.)
Jillian Raines has practiced on the biggest stages available to an insurance lawyer, as both an in-house lawyer at the world’s largest technology corporation and outside counsel to corporate policyholders.
Returning to private practice in 2021 after serving as a corporate insurance attorney for Apple Inc., Jill helps policyholder clients navigate their most complex insurance-related issues. As a partner at Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna LLP in New York, Jill has managed a variety of coverage lawsuits and claims, from directors & officers insurance disputes to cutting-edge privacy and product liability claims under technology errors & omissions and general liability policies.
For Paramount Global (formerly Viacom Inc.), Jill has secured multiple major rulings from the Delaware Superior Court. After defeating motions to dismiss, Jill secured a ruling that Viacom’s insurers cannot avoid covering a $122.5 million settlement resolving a shareholder lawsuit involving the 2019 merger of Viacom and CBS, based on the so-called “bump-up” industry exclusion. Following that win, earlier this year Jill successfully argued for summary judgment, securing a ruling in Viacom’s favor that the 2019 Viacom shareholder litigation was not interrelated to a group of prior lawsuits under an earlier policy period.
Jill also helps a number of Fortune 500 companies to secure insurance coverage for complex claims short of litigation under D&O, EPL, cyber, property, and liability policies—work that is uniquely informed by her prior in-house role at Apple. While there, Jill advised the company on its insurance policy language and claims navigation, risk management and mitigation strategies, and insurance due diligence. Her responsibilities also included insurance regulatory matters from insurance licensing and product filings to drafting policy and service contract terms and conditions globally.
At Cohen Ziffer, Jill runs Cohen Ziffer’s advisory services team, helping her clients, including major technology, retail, biomedical, private equity, and critical infrastructure clients pre- and post-litigation by performing insurance program audits, corporate risk assessments, insurance due diligence, and claim resolution services.
Between her graduation from law school in 2012 and 2018, Jill worked with the founding partners of Cohen Ziffer at two different Am Law 200 firms, acting as a key contributor to the insurance recovery group’s success. Before joining Apple, she also served as a Legal & Policy Fellow for The Governance Lab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering, an advocacy organization headed by Dr. Beth Noveck, New Jersey’s first chief innovation officer, who led President Obama’s Open Government Initiative.
Jill was named a winner of Business Insurance’s Break Out Award in 2022 and was recognized as a Rising Star by Insurance Business America in October 2021.
