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Richard Giller

Richard Giller

Partner and Chair of the Insurance Recovery and Counseling Group

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Richard Giller serves as head of the Insurance Recovery and Counseling practice group at Greenspoon Marder LLP. He concentrates his practice on recovering insurance benefits from recalcitrant insurance companies on behalf of his institutional and individual clients. With over 40 years of experience, Mr. Giller develops litigation strategies for complex insurance and commercial disputes. He has represented policyholders all over the U.S. and has successfully secured hundreds of millions of dollars in defense costs, settlements, and indemnity payments on behalf of his clients.

Besides advising Fortune 500 clients, Mr. Giller is the most recognized sports insurance recovery attorney in the country and is responsible for creating the athlete disability insurance recovery practice niche out of whole cloth. He represents collegiate and professional athletes, professional sports teams and leagues, and entertainers in securing payouts under various insurance products, including permanent total disability (PTD), temporary total disability (TTD), loss-of-value (LOV), and critical injury (CII) insurance claims. His clients have included athletes such as NBA All-Star Isaiah Thomas, two-time MLB World Series Champion Walker Buehler, and NFL Super Bowl Champion Jay Ajayi, along with a host of others. Mr. Giller is also a thought leader in the area of sports insurance and Name, Image and Likeness (NIL), and currently represents several NIL collectives. In addition, he has successfully obtained recoveries under event cancellation insurance, cast and crew insurance, and other entertainment-related insurance policies and coverages.

Mr. Giller was recognized among Lawdragon’s “Leading Global Entertainment, Sports & Media Lawyers” in 2025, the Los Angeles Times’ “Legal Visionaries” and Daily Journal’s “Top 100 Lawyers” in California in 2024. He was also one of only five lawyers in the country to be selected as a Law360 MVP in Insurance for 2023 and was among the select group of recipients of the 2022 West Trailblazer Award from The American Lawyer magazine. Since 2021, he has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Lawyers in America” guide for insurance litigation and insurance law generally.

As a seasoned litigator, Mr. Giller has substantial experience defending complex product liability cases, representing clients in environmental litigation, prosecuting insurance class action cases, and handling toxic tort matters. He has also tried several civil and commercial matters in state and federal courts, taking cases through arbitration and mediation. In addition, Mr. Giller has extensive appellate experience, including numerous appearances before several California Courts of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as authoring several amicus briefs filed with the California Supreme Court concerning significant insurance issues.

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