Mr. Shrake's practice focuses on insurance coverage, extra-contractual liability, and reinsurance disputes and includes directors and officers claims, business torts, commercial litigation, internet commerce, intellectual property, and government/regulatory investigations.
Mr. Shrake's practice is national in scope. He handles an extensive range of insurance coverage, reinsurance, and claims-handling matters for primary and excess carriers in the domestic and London markets. He has represented insurance companies and syndicates in sophisticated coverage disputes with particular emphasis on property damage, professional liability, fiduciary matters, healthcare, Internet and financial institutions. In addition, he has acted as defense and monitoring counsel for high-exposure actions against insureds.
Mr. Shrake's commercial litigation experience includes numerous complex disputes involving class action defense, RICO claims, breach of fiduciary duty actions and other business torts related to corporate disputes between shareholders and owners. He also frequently represents parties in cases concerning fiduciary obligations, compliance, and contract-based disputes, fraud/misrepresentation, trade secret misappropriation, intellectual property theft, restrictive covenant enforcement and defense, and computer fraud.
Mr. Shrake also has significant experience handling defamation and disparagement cases. In addition, he often defends professional liability cases involving accountants, attorneys, insurance agents and brokers, real estate agents, doctors and healthcare professionals and other miscellaneous professional claims.
Mr. Shrake is licensed to practice in California, Minnesota, and Texas, and he has appeared pro hac vice in numerous other jurisdictions.