Warren is the Managing Partner of Smith| von Schleicher + Associates. Warren writes on ERISA and insurance coverage, focusing on legal theory and philosophy.
EDUCATION
J.D. 1987, University of Michigan Law School
Editorial Board, Univ. of Michigan Journal of Law Reform
B.A 1984, Boston University
Ancient Language and Literature
Αττική διάλεκτος and Lingua Latina
Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
1983, Princeton University
Dissertation, Poetics of Contrast: Virgilian Bucolic Imagery in 17th Century Poetry
E avanti a lui tremava tutta Roma
ACADEMICS
Philosophy of Law and Morality
Legal Realism
SMITH | VON SCHLEICHER + ASSOCIATES
CHICAGO + ATLANTA
Managing Partner
ADMITTED
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Courts of Appeal
Sixth Circuit
Seventh Circuit
Ninth Circuit
Illinois (N.D. Ill., C.D. Ill., S.D. Ill., Ill. S.Ct.)
Michigan (E.D. Mich., W.D. Mich.)
Tennessee (E.D. Tenn., W.D. Tenn.)
Wisconsin (E.D. Wis., W.D. Wis.)
Indiana (N.D. Ind., S.D. Ind.)
Ohio (N.D. Ohio)
Pro hac vice: Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Faculty Lecturer – “Preemption & ERISA Plan Design” American Conference Institute (New York City Jan 23, 2014)
Testified before Dept. of Labor’s ERISA Advisory Council, “Managing Disability Risks” (Washington DC Aug. 28, 2012)
“Wearing Out One’s Welcome: Sitting by Designation on the Court of Appeals” (DRI Newsletter, Vol. 22 No. 1, 2011)
“Villains, Victims & Sinners: Morality and the Law of Suicide Exclusions” (DRI Newsletter, Vol. 20 No. 4, 2010)
“The Court Gave, and the Court Hath Taken Away – Judicial Displacement of Administrative Discretion” (DRI, Oct. 2009)
Panelist with Hon. Rebecca Pallmeyer and Mark DeBofsky, “ERISA and Mental Illness” (Chicago Oct. 2009)
“Moral Judicial Estoppel” (The Voice, Vol. 7, Oct. 2008)
Faculty Lecturer – DRI, “Equitable Relief under ERISA” (San Francisco April 2008)
“Injury, Sickness And Causal Ambiguity” (ABA TortSource, Vol. 10, Spring 2008)
“It’s Payback Time: Obtaining Equitable Relief In The Wake of Sereboff” (DRI, March 2008)
“The Causal Conundrum” (The Voice, Vol. 6, Fall 2007)
LEGAL AFFILIATIONS
Defense Research Institute
ERISA, Life, Health & Disability
Publications Editor 2008 – 2012
Annual Meeting Committee Chair 2008 – 2010
CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Lyric Opera of Chicago – Silver Grand Benefactor
Taekwondo Blackbelt
MILITARY
Judge Advocate General Corps, U.S. Navy Reserve