Elizabeth Sackett is a member of the Litigation Section, focusing on complex business and insurance disputes. Ms. Sackett practices in the area of commercial litigation and insurance. She has extensive experience litigating and mediating complex commercial, insurance, contract, creditor rights, and general business disputes. She also represents companies and individuals in employment noncompete agreement disputes and trade secret actions.

Ms. Sackett’s regional insurance practice includes the determination of coverage under policies, claims-handling practices, extra-contractual and bad faith liability, application misrepresentation, and underwriting matters. She counsels insurers regarding policy coverage and claims-handling practices under CGL, professional liability, D&O, commercial auto, umbrella, and excess policies. Ms. Sackett also routinely represents insurers in the litigation of insurance coverage and unfair claims-handling actions in state and federal courts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. She frequently provides in-house training seminars to insurers and third-party administrators regarding claims-handling practices and insurance coverage analysis.

Ms. Sackett graduated, cum laude, from Tufts University, where she majored in political science and history. She graduated with honors from The George Washington University Law School. She is admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

EDUCATION

—	J.D., with honors, The George Washington University Law School
—	B.A., cum laude, Tufts University, history and political science

PROFESSIONAL & TRADE ASSOCIATIONS

—	American Bar Association (ABA), 1999 to present
—	Boston Bar Association, 1999 to present
—	ABA, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee of the Tort, Trial, and Insurance Practice Section, 2001 to present, co-Web site coordinator (2004 to 2006); coeditor ICLC Newsletter (2006 to 2008)