Joshua D. Lerner

Josh Lerner has a diverse practice including commercial litigation, professional liability, insurance coverage and appeals.

He represents national insurance companies in the Life, Disability and ERISA arena, as well as coverage matters, appeals and class actions. Josh also provides opinions and handles litigation in matters relating to coverage under commercial general liability, errors and omissions, garage liability and trucker’s liability policies. Working closely with SIU professionals, Josh prosecutes recovery actions arising from insurance fraud. Among the insureds Josh represents, are accountants, lawyers, securities broker-dealers, financial planners, IRA custodians and automobile dealers.

Josh also has a strong commercial litigation practice representing portfolio and private lenders and CMBS special servicers in commercial foreclosure litigation. He leads a firm wide team of lawyers that handles foreclosure and other real estate litigation matters from each of the firm’s five offices.

One of his core strengths is as a writer and editor. Josh received focused training in appellate practice while in law school and served as a law clerk on Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal. He has been counsel of record in more than fifty appeals.rnrnJosh served on the firm’s executive committee from 2008-2015.