Savannah Billingham-Hemminger

Savannah is an associate in the firm’s Insurance + Reinsurance Practice Group. Her practice involves litigation, arbitration, and counseling on a variety of commercial disputes, with an emphasis on complex insurance and reinsurance matters. Savannah has experience in pre-litigation issues, including claims handling, claims investigation, and general coverage, as well as with a wide range of insurance policies including directors and officers (D&O), commercial general liability, professional indemnity, and architects and engineers (A&E).

On reinsurance matters, Savannah has worked on various cases through all stages of arbitration. She has experience with reinsurance disputes involving yearly renewable term reinsurance premiums, recapture provisions, and policy exclusions.

Savannah has a background and experience in international commercial arbitration, including research into the interaction of state law and the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), recent issues in evidence procurement and enforcement, and institutional rules.

While completing her law degree, she served as editor-in-chief for the Pepperdine Dispute Resolution Law Journal, and hosted a day-and-a–half-long conference discussing the new ALI Restatement of International Commercial and Investor-State Arbitration. Savannah graduated with a certificate in Dispute Resolution from the internationally recognized Straus Institute, as well as a certificate from Palmer Center for Entrepreneurship and the Law, and a certificate in International and Comparative Law from Pepperdine School of Law.

Savannah also maintains a pro bono practice covering immigration matters such as deportation, asylum, and Convention Against Torture (CAT) proceedings, and has worked on wrongful conviction matters. Additionally, she volunteers at a local drop-in clinic covering immigration and domestic violence concerns, and she works on Civil Protective Order (CPO) cases.

*Licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia. Not admitted in Massachusetts.

• Recipient of High Honors for 100+ hours of pro bono service, 2022 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll
• Recipient of High Honors for 100+ hours of pro bono service, 2021 Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll