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Latosha Ellis

202-955-1978 lellis@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Insurance Coverage, Cyber Insurance, Litigation, Colleges and Universities

Position

Counsel

Career

Latosha helps policyholders maximize insurance recoveries with sound advice and effective solutions. Latosha delivers comprehensive end-to-end counsel to help clients with all of their insurance coverage needs from policy procurement and analysis to claims resolution and payment to, if necessary, alternative dispute resolution or litigation. Although valued for her expertise in cyber risk and media liability, Latosha regularly advises and represents clients on all major forms of insurance coverage.

Latosha has counseled policyholders on a number of recent, widely publicized cyber incidents, recovering millions of dollars for clients. She has experience advising clients in the higher education, retail, legal, and financial sectors. She routinely collaborates with in-house counsel and risk managers on insurance issues, including structuring indemnity and insurance obligations, identifying gaps and overlap in critical insurance coverages, and performing due diligence reviews. Latosha has handled and tried cases in state and federal trial courts nationwide.

In addition to her legal practice, Latosha is a frequent contributor to the Hunton Insurance Recovery Blog and often speaks on topics related to insurance coverage and risk management at seminars across the country on emerging issues, including cybersecurity and artificial intelligence, insurance and indemnity clauses in third-party contracts, and insurance coverage denials.

Memberships

• Member of the Board of Directors, Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 2023-present; Treasurer, 2022-2023; Treasurer-Elect, 2021-2022; Secretary, 2020-2021
• Co-Host, ABA Section of Litigation, Audio Content Committee, Legal Talk Network Litigation Radio Podcast
• Member, District of Columbia Bar, CLE Planning Committee
• Co-Chair, 2021 CLE Seminar, ABA Section of Litigation, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (2020-2021); Co-Vice Chair 2020 CLE Seminar (2019-2020)
• Member, ABA Section of Litigation, Virtual Programming Committee (2021-2022); Professional Development Committee (2020-2021)

Education

JD, University of Richmond School of Law, 2014

MBA, Xavier University, 2005

BA, University of Cincinnati, 2001