The Team
PilotLegis Team
AON Team
Lisa Perrochet
Chair
As a partner at the firm of Horvitz & Levy, Ms. Perrochet has handled hundreds of appeals and writ proceedings, and has argued before the California Supreme Court and intermediate appellate courts throughout the state. Her practice areas include defense against consumer and punitive damages claims; toxic torts and products liability; insurance coverage and bad faith litigation; professional ethics and professional liability. Ms. Perrochet is also active in the legal community as a long-time member of the Los Angeles County Bar Appellate Courts Section. She has been a board member of the Association of Southern California Defense Counsel for many years, and is Editor of that organization’s Verdict magazine. She is her firm’s risk management partner, and is honored to be serving as Chair of the Board of Directors of PilotLegis RPG.
Tony Leuin
Vice Chair
Tony Leuin is a senior litigation partner with Shartsis Friese LLP in San Francisco. With a broad background in civil disputes of all types, he primarily represents insurance policyholders in disputes with their insurers, and is a member of the American College of Coverage Counsel. He has served on Pilot’s Board of Directors for nearly two decades, formerly chaired the Claims Committee, and currently serves as Pilot’s Vice Chair.
Alison Buchanan
Chair, Claims Management Committee
Alison Buchanan is the Chair of Pilot’s Claims Management Committee and a member of the Board. She is a shareholder with and the General Counsel for Hoge, Fenton, Jones & Appel, in San Jose, California, where she focuses her practice on business litigation, professional liability/professional malpractice, and legal ethics.
Alison is a Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice Law, as certified by the California State Bar’s Board of Legal Specialization. From September 2011 to September 2014, Alison served a three-year term as a member of the California State Bar’s Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct (COPRAC). Alison is a member of the Santa Clara County Bar Association and was the 2016 and 2015 Chair of its Professionalism Committee. Alison is a member of the Bar Association of San Francisco and serves on the Executive Committee of its Legal Malpractice section. Alison frequently lectures throughout the state of California and publishes articles on the subject of attorney ethics. Alison also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the Humane Society Silicon Valley.
Alison earned her undergraduate degree from University of California at Irvine and her J.D. from Chicago-Kent College of Law.
Drew Dilworth
Chair, Risk Management Committee
Andrew Dilworth is a litigation partner with Cooper, White & Cooper LLP. Mr. Dilworth counsels lawyers and law firms in California and nationwide on issues of professional responsibility. His practice focuses on the law governing lawyers. His experience in professional responsibility matters includes handling State Bar investigations and disciplinary proceedings, admission issues, law firm break-ups and attorney departures, client fee disputes, conflicts of interests and disqualification motions, sanctions motions, anti-SLAPP motions, disputes regarding claims of attorney-client privilege or work product, and other matters that relate to the conduct of lawyers and law firms. Mr. Dilworth also counsels lawyers and law firms on risk management issues and compliance with the rules of professional conduct. Mr. Dilworth is the current Advisor and Past Chair of the California State Bar’s Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. He is also a past Chair of the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Legal Ethics Committee. He serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law for the University of San Francisco School of Law where he has taught Legal Ethics for more than twelve years. He also serves as special counsel to his law firm on professional responsibility issues.
Garth Pickett
Chair, Marketing Committee
Garth Pickett, a former risk managing shareholder and executive committee member of Hopkins & Carley a 70+ attorney firm with offices in San Jose and Palo Alto, California. Garth was the attorney along with three law firm administrators who started Pilot. Garth is a past President of Pilot and currently a member of the Board of Directors and chairman of the marketing committee. Garth graduated from Stanford Law School and is a transactional real estate attorney and real estate department chair emeritus. His transactional work focuses on representing hi-tech firms with their real estate needs.
Maryanne Trevisan
Chair, Membership & Standards Committee
Maryanne Trevisan works with clients in the preparation and prosecution of patent applications focusing on the areas of adult, embryonic, and induced stem cell biology, immunology, cancer therapeutics, and nucleic acid sequencing. Maryanne also provides strategic legal counseling to her clients including patentability and freedom to operate analyses and licensing.
Margaret Hepper
Executive Director
Since August 1999, Margaret Hepper has served as PilotLegis’ Executive Director. Her responsibilities include recruiting and underwriting new members, developing risk management programming for the membership, overseeing the group’s day-to-day administration, and strategic planning. Ms. Hepper sits ex officio on PilotLegis’ Board of Directors and all other committees.
Ms. Hepper served on the ABA Standing Committee for Professional Liability from 2004-2007, during which she twice served as Conference Chair.
Prior to PilotLegis, Ms. Hepper spent seven years in the field of law firm risk management, working with midsized and large law firms around the country. Between 1986 and 1992, Ms. Hepper practiced law in Minneapolis-St. Paul. She is a graduate of Northwestern University and William Mitchell College of Law.
Brandon Martin
Assistant to Executive Director
Brandon Martin joined Aon in 2013 as an Executive Assistant. After graduating with a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Communication Studies he has supported numerous business units which include Customer Service, Shared Services, Implementation, Workday, HR Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Professional Services, in addition to C-Level executives. In his current role with PilotLegis, Martin assists Margaret Hepper with ongoing marketing efforts, event management, and any administrative needs for the PilotLegis organization.
Gulden Apprendi
Associate
Gulden Apprendi is an Associate for Aon’s Professional Services Group in New York. She represents mid-sized law and consulting firms focusing on Professional Liability and Cyber Security insurance lines. Prior to joining Aon in early 2016, Gulden worked as an assistant at a global law firm Sullivan & Cromwell. Gulden has a Registered Professional Liability Underwriter designation and holds degrees from Florida International University and Birkbeck, University of London.
Phone: 212.441.1393
Email: gulden.apprendi@aon.com
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Jim Belding
Senior Vice President and Executive Director
James C. Belding is a Senior Vice President and Executive Director in the Commercial Risk Solutions, Professional Services Group at Aon, specializing in all aspects of the placement of professional liability insurance for law firms.
Phone: 201.460.6726
Email: james.belding@aon.com
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Matt Corbin
Senior Vice President
Matthew K. Corbin is a Senior Vice President with Aon’s Professional Services Group. As a member of Aon’s loss prevention team, Matt consults with Aon’s law firm clients on a wide range of professional responsibility and liability issues. Before joining Aon in 2013, Matt was a partner with Lathrop Gage LLP in Kansas City, Missouri, and Overland Park, Kansas. He was a business trial and appellate lawyer handling commercial, business tort, employment, construction, insurance, professional liability, and regulatory matters. Before joining the firm, Matt clerked for the Hon. Mary Beck Briscoe of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit and the late Hon. G. Thomas Van Bebber in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
Phone: 816.225.5815
Email: matthew.corbin@aon.com
Dan Klauss
Senior Vice President
Daniel D. Klauss is a Senior Vice President working in California’s Bay Area for Aon’s Professional Services Group. His exclusive focus since 1988 has been advising and representing mid-sized and large law firms on insurance and risk management issues. Prior to that, Mr. Klauss worked in the general property casualty industry as an underwriter, a claims examiner and an instructor for the Insurance Institute of Canada.
Phone: 415.215.2881
Email: daniel.klauss@aon.com
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Christina Ladouceur
Vice President and Director
Christina Ladouceur is a Vice President for Aon’s Professional Services Group based in New York. Christina started her career at Aon in Montreal and in 2012 relocated to New York focusing on insurance and risk management for law firms.
Phone: 212.441.1750
Email: christina.ladouceur@aon.com
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Fran Murray
Vice President
Fran Murray is a Vice President in Aon’s Professional Services Group focusing exclusively on Property, Casualty, and Specialty Lines insurance products for his law firm client base. Fran started his career as a property adjuster, adjusting law firm claims in New England. He transitioned to an underwriter of law firms for a leading global insurance carrier for eight years, and now for the past four years has exclusively represented Aon law firm clients on a wide variety of risk management needs.
Phone: 212.441.2555
Email: francis.murray@aon.com
Brian Padgett
Associate
Brian M. Padgett is an Associate on Aon’s mid-sized law firm team where he works on employment practices/management liability and professional liability insurance placements. He joined Aon in May 2017. Prior to joining the company, Brian spent nine years as an aviation insurance underwriter.
Phone: 212.441.2129
Email: brian.padgett@aon.com
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Doug Richmond
Managing Director
Douglas R. Richmond is Managing Director of Aon’s Professional Services Group and leads Aon’s loss prevention team. Before joining Aon, Doug was a partner with Armstrong Teasdale LLP in Kansas City, Missouri (1989–2004), where he had a national trial and appellate practice. Doug is the lead author of the book Professional Responsibility in Litigation (2d ed. 2016), and the co-author of an insurance law treatise, Understanding Insurance Law (6th ed. 2018). He teaches Legal Ethics at the Northwestern University School of Law and a seminar on Liability Insurance Law at the University of Florida College of Law. Doug earned his J.D. at the University of Kansas.
Phone: 312.339.2003
Email: doug.richmond@aon.com
Tom Ricketts
Cyber Practice Leader
Tom Ricketts is the Cyber Practice Leader and co-leads the Property and Casualty Department within the Professional Services practice in New York, providing risk management and insurance advice for all Property and Casualty lines of coverage to the division’s clients; including placing cyber insurance for more than 100 law firms from AmLaw 10 to AmLaw 200.
Phone: 212.441.1744
Email: tom.ricketts@aon.com
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Mark Webster
Vice President and Director
Mark A. Webster is a Vice President with Aon’s Professional Services Group. As a member of the group’s loss prevention team, Mark consults with Aon’s law firm clients on a wide range of professional responsibility and liability issues in an effort to identify and minimize the risks threatening law firms. Before joining Aon, Mark was a partner with Lathrop Gage LLP in Kansas City, Missouri, and Overland Park, Kansas. He was a real estate and corporate lawyer handling real estate financing and purchase transactions, commercial leasing, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate formation and governance.
Phone: 913.201.3446
Email: mark.webster1@aon.com
Chester White
Vice President and Director
Chester D. White is a Vice President working in New York City for Aon’s Professional Services Group. His exclusive focus since 2006 has been advising and representing mid-sized and large law firms on insurance and risk management issues. Prior to that, Mr. White worked in the general property casualty industry as a broker. He has attained the RPLU and ARM designations.
Phone: 212.441.1551
Email: chester.white@aon.com
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Bruce Wilson
Senior Managing Director
Bruce G. Wilson is a Senior Managing Director in Aon’s Professional Services Group, a member of the Management Committee and co-leader of the PSG law firm client service team. Advising professional firms on insurance, reinsurance, risk management and captive management issues, Mr Wilson has worked as a broker in Toronto, Montreal, San Francisco and New York.
Phone: 203.722.4404
Email: bruce.wilson@aon.com
