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Jillian Raines
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Jillian Raines

Partner

jraines@cohenziffer.com
New York
212.584.1831 D
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My Approach

I’m a very diplomatic and reasonable lawyer, but I also fight vigorously for the interests of my clients. My experience as corporate counsel makes me a highly effective advocate, and I speak the language of business. I scrupulously avoid inefficiencies to make sure that we're making the most of our time and that my clients receive the greatest value for their money.

Overview

Recently returning to private practice after serving as a corporate insurance attorney for Apple Inc., Jillian Raines uses her unique insight to help policyholder clients. With knowledge gained from both her in-house tenure and her prior experience as a litigator in private practice, Jill guides organizations through litigation when it makes the best business sense. She creates sensible strategies that preserve commercial relationships and alleviate negative ramifications stemming from the pursuit of courtroom remedies.

With a business-savvy outlook and attention to essential detail, Jill brings an ability to spot issues and creatively address them before they become problems. She collaborates closely with clients and procures an in-depth understanding of their objectives so she can best help them plan and prepare for all risks and contingencies upfront, and ensure payment from the policies purchased when claims arise. Ensuring that insurance policies are the right fit for organizations, Jill helps companies negotiate and obtain sufficient coverage in a range of areas, including those that involve mergers and acquisitions, data security, employment, production and construction as well as across various coverage lines such as directors and officers, professional liability or errors & omissions, employment liability, life sciences, cyber liability, CGL and property.  

Jill’s holistic approach to her work encompasses her conscientious efforts to help individuals and teams bridge their interests and align on common purposes. Her excellent people skills, capacity to make people feel comfortable, and talent at facilitating communications among disparate groups and individuals make her extremely effective in ensuring all voices, points of view, and questions are heard.

At Apple, Jill advised on insurance policy language and claims navigation across the company’s portfolio of coverage and supported various business units on risk management and mitigation strategies as well as insurance due diligence. She drafted and negotiated insurance and indemnification terms in numerous commercial agreements, including leases, services, and supplier agreements, and also collaborated with teams across the company as well as external partners to provide all manner of insurance coverage advice. Jill’s counsel also included various insurance regulatory matters, from insurance licensing and product filings to drafting policy and service contract terms and conditions globally.

Prior to working at Apple, Jill spent several years at major litigation firms, representing individual and corporate clients in state and federal insurance coverage and complex commercial litigation, trials, arbitrations, and mediation.

Recognition and Rankings

  • Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2022 40 & Under List
  • Winner of Business Insurance "Break Out Award" (2022)
  • Recognized as a “Rising Star” by Insurance Business America, October 2021

News/Insights

  • Cohen Ziffer Recognized by Benchmark Litigation in 2023 Guide

    October 6, 2022·Media Coverage·2 minute read
  • Four Cohen Ziffer Partners Named to Benchmark Litigation’s 2022 40 & Under List

    July 28, 2022·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Jillian Raines Selected for Business Insurance’s Break Out Award

    June 1, 2022·News·less than a minute
  • New York Law Journal: Call to Action: Modernizing the ‘War Exclusion’ For the 21st Century

    May 23, 2022·News·less than a minute
  • Law360: Strike And Riot Insurance Considerations For Policyholders

    December 8, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Another Win for COVID-19 Coverage

    October 26, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Spotlight On … Jillian Raines

    August 25, 2021·News·4 minute read
  • Law.com Insurance Coverage Law Center: Court Refuses to Dismiss Business Interruption Suit

    August 18, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Chicago Daily Law Bulletin: Business Interruption Suit Can Proceed

    August 17, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Law360: Ill. Judge Lets NY Builders Press On In Virus Coverage Fight

    August 16, 2021·Media Coverage, News·3 minute read
  • ICLG: Cohen Ziffer adds Apple talent

    March 29, 2021·News·less than a minute
  • Corporate Counsel: Apple In-House Attorney Gets Another Bite at Her Old Firm

    March 18, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Law360 Pulse: Ex-Apple Insurance Atty Joins Cohen Ziffer As Partner In NY

    March 15, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute
  • Busines Wire: Apple Insurance Attorney Jillian Raines Joins Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna as Partner

    March 11, 2021·Media Coverage·less than a minute

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Education

  • New York Law School (JD, magna cum laude, 2012)
    • Visual Scholarship Web Editor, New York Law School Law Review
    • John Marshall Harlan Scholar
    • Judicial Intern for the Honorable Deborah A. Batts (United States District Court, Southern District of New York)
    • Student Research Fellow, Institute for Information Law & Policy, 2010-2012
    • Writer/Reporter, New York Law School legal news blog, Legal As She Is Spoke, 2010-2011
    • New York Law School Government Fellowship, Summer 2010
  • Pennsylvania State University (BA, 2009)
    • Arts Editor, The Daily Collegian, 2008-2009

Bar Admissions

  • New York

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
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