Litigation counsel for myriad insurance coverage issues

Alex Shortridge guides her clients in negotiating and litigating a broad range of substantive areas at all value levels. Her primary focus is insurance coverage, particularly mass tort coverage cases that include asbestos, environmental and/or sexual abuse claims. In addition, Alex advises on all aspects of insurance, from placing coverage to litigating claims, as well as on defense against class actions, municipal liability and Wisconsin Fair Dealership Law claims.

Bar Admissions

• Wisconsin

Education

• Marquette University Law School (J.D., magna cum laude)
  • Marquette Law Review, senior comment editor

• University of Minnesota (B.A.)

• "2014 Wisconsin Insurance Law Update"
• "2015 Wisconsin Insurance Law Update"
• "2017 Wisconsin Insurance Law Update"
• "An Update on Wisconsin Insurance Law and a Look Ahead"
• "Insurance Coverage for Data Breaches & Cyber Liability"
• "Solace For Wis. Suppliers Over Defective Components"
• "Teaching Corporate Employees How Attorney-Client Privilege Works (and Doesn't Work), and Why They Should Care"
• "Will Wisconsin Courts Interpret Indemnity Agreements and Additional-Insured Endorsements Differently in Light of Deepwater Horizon?"
• "Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review – 2016"
• "Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review – 2017"
• 2014 ​Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review
• 2016 Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review
• 2017 Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review
• 2018 Insurance Coverage Case Law Year in Review
• 2018 Wisconsin Insurance Case Law Year in Review
• 2019 Insurance Law Series: 2018 Insurance Coverage Case Law Year in Review
• 2020 Wisconsin Insurance Case Law Year in Review
• 2020 Wisconsin Insurance Case Law Year in Review
• 2021 Wisconsin Insurance Case Law Year in Review
• The Duty to Defend from the Policyholder's Perspective
• Wisconsin Court of Appeals - Insurance Coverage For Use of Wrong Ingredient
• Wisconsin Supreme Court Strengthens Insurer’s Duty to Defend in ‘Advertising Injury’ Cases
• ​2015 Wisconsin Insurance Law Year in Review
• ​California Supreme Court Re-Establishes Corporate Seller’s Ability to Assign Right to Coverage for Legacy Liabilities

Seminar

• 2017 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar
• 2022 HIPAA Cow Spring Conference
• Video Replay | 2017 Annual Legal Ethics Seminar