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Best Insurance law firms in New York

Grouped into editorial tiers — words, never scores. No paid placement and no numeric rank; within a tier the order rotates monthly and carries no meaning.

Last verified 22 Jul 2026 · Next review by 22 Aug 2026 · Change log

Direct answer & research summary

Best Insurance law firms in New York are tiered by Sartori & Partners from public footprint as of July 2026, not from a numeric score: 11 firms sit on this board. Sartori & Partners has completed 400+ placements since 2017 (230+ in-house), including 52 general counsel and chief legal officer searches, with a median of 11 weeks from brief to accepted offer. A NASDAQ-listed medtech in Boston accepted its successor general counsel in week 11, from a shortlist of four at day 24.

01 — The ranking

The New York Insurance board

A tier on this New York Insurance board names relative firm standing in words. Placement speaks to coverage disputes, liability defence and carrier-side presence; order inside each band carries no hierarchy and is not a score.

NEW YORK × INSURANCE11 FIRMS · NO SCORESREV. 2026-07
REFFIRMNEW YORK INSURANCE BANDSIGNAL
TIER 1 — MARKET LEADERS3 FIRMS

The top editorial band for the best Insurance law firms in New York: firms that set the tone for Insurance mandates at scale in New York. Within-tier sequence rotates and is not a ranking.

T1·01 Clyde & Co25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T1·02 Kennedys25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T1·03 Rivkin Radler25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
TIER 2 — HIGHLY ACTIVE4 FIRMS

Highly active on the New York Insurance board means consistent coverage, liability and carrier-side presence and peer recognition short of the leader set. No numeric score is assigned.

T2·01 Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T2·02 Wilson Elser25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T2·03 Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T2·04 Kaufman Dolowich Voluck10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
TIER 3 — ESTABLISHED4 FIRMS

This band covers firms with solid Insurance standing and mapped benches in New York, without the intensity of the tiers above. Within-tier order is deliberately flat.

T3·01 Goldberg Segalla10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T3·02 Marshall Dennehey10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T3·03 Cozen O'Connor25–49 attorneys mapped · major local depth 25–49 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓
T3·04 DAC Beachcroft10–24 attorneys mapped · major local depth 10–24 ATTORNEYS FLAT → EVID ↓

All counts are shown as bands, never precise headcounts. Notable firms sit outside the tiers by design: verified minimal presence, not assessed at full tier depth.

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02 — Evidence, methodology & sources why each firm · how tiers are set · sources · change log · verified 22 Jul 2026 · next review 22 Aug 2026

Firm evidence

Tier 1 — Market leaders Open firm profile →

Clyde & Co

Clyde & Co is placed in market leaders for Insurance in New York. Public mapping (banded): 25–49 attorneys, major local depth, ≈10 partners · 10 counsel · 20+ associates. Evidence gates — office (G1) PASS, local practice (G2) PASS, recent signal (G3) PASS. The placement carries no numeric score.

Strongest mapped work

InsuranceLitigation & DisputesConstruction

Public hiring signal

Hiring signal: FLAT — no public hiring change detected in the mapping window.

Limits of this assessment

  • —A tier is Sartori’s editorial opinion, not a fact about the firm or a client-satisfaction measure.
  • —Facts are mapped from public sources and shown as bands; they lag reality by weeks or months.
  • —No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input.

Sources for this entry

Methodology

How tiers are assigned

Deterministic public-footprint core (local depth, practice share, seniority mix, public hiring momentum), computed relative to this market's own distribution. Tier placement is derived from this public mapped data; a per-firm public-source ledger is compiled for firms in the annual research pass and applies to those firms' factual claims, not to tier membership. No third-party legal-directory bands are used as an input.

Market scope

10–24 firms earn a tier in New York within this scope (banded).

Disclosures

Firm names used nominatively (factual). All counts shown as bands, never precise headcounts. No firm logos. Report an error via the site contact form.

Sources & change log

  1. 1 New York | Clyde & Cofirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  2. 2 New York | Clyde & Cofirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  3. 3 Clyde & Co — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  4. 4 New York - United States | Kennedys Lawfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  5. 5 Rooted in Midtown, built for the future: Our move to 22 Vanderbilt Avenuefirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  6. 6 Rooted in Midtown, built for the future: Our move to 22 Vanderbilt Avenuefirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  7. 7 Our Locations | Rivkin Radlerfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  8. 8 New York City Office | Rivkin Radler Attorneys | Midtown Eastfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  9. 9 Rivkin Radler — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  10. 10 Office Locations | NY, NJ, FL, TX, CA | Mound Cottonfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  11. 11 Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass — attorney bios & practice pagesfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  12. 12 Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  13. 13 Wilson Elser — New York office pagesfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-20
  14. 14 Wilson Elser — attorney bios & practice pagesfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-20
  15. 15 Wilson Elser — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-20
  16. 16 Contact - Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLPfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  17. 17 Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan — attorney bios & practice pagesfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  18. 18 Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  19. 19 New York City - Kaufman Dolowichfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  20. 20 Kaufman Dolowich Voluck — attorney bios & practice pagesfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  21. 21 Kaufman Dolowich Voluck — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  22. 22 Offices | Marshall Denneheyfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  23. 23 Offices | New Yorkfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  24. 24 Marshall Dennehey — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  25. 25 Cozen O'Connor: Officesfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  26. 26 Cozen O'Connor: New Yorkfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  27. 27 Cozen O'Connor — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
  28. 28 New York | DAC Beachcroftfirm_website · G1 · 2026-07-21
  29. 29 New York | DAC Beachcroftfirm_website · G2 · 2026-07-21
  30. 30 DAC Beachcroft — New York news & announcementsfirm_website · G3 · 2026-07-21
22 Jul 2026 Scope-aware market-relative core assembled.
22 Jul 2026 30 verified source(s) ingested for the researched firms; tier placement comes from our own market data so unresearched visible firms do not block approval → APPROVED (auto).
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04 — Questions

About this ranking

Who are the best Insurance law firms in New York?

Who leads Insurance in New York? As of July 2026, Market leaders are Clyde & Co, Kennedys, Rivkin Radler. Sartori does not name a single number-one firm; the gap inside Tier 1 is treated as unmeasurable, and the wider board of 11 firms uses worded tiers only.

Is Clyde & Co the best Insurance law firm in New York?

Clyde & Co sits in Tier 1 — Market leaders — of Sartori's New York Insurance board as of July 2026, alongside Kennedys, Rivkin Radler. Sartori does not name a single #1: the gap between Tier 1 firms is genuinely unmeasurable, and a numeric score would be false precision.

Which firms have the biggest Insurance benches in New York?

By mapped New York bench, the largest firms on this board are Clyde & Co, Kennedys, Rivkin Radler, Mound Cotton Wollan & Greengrass, Wilson Elser, Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan, Cozen O'Connor (25–49 mapped lawyers each). All counts are bands, never precise headcounts.

Which Insurance teams are hiring in New York?

As of July 2026, no firm on this board shows a public hiring signal in the mapping window. Live New York mandates are listed on Sartori's jobs board.

What is a Tier 1 law firm?

In Sartori's rankings, Tier 1 — Market leaders — is an editorial judgement expressed in words, never a score: the firms whose New York bench depth, seniority mix and market standing set the reference point for the market. As of July 2026 that is Clyde & Co, Kennedys, Rivkin Radler. Within the tier no firm outranks another.

Which are the best law firms in New York overall?

Sartori's overall New York board groups 25 firms into editorial tiers; as of July 2026 its Tier 1 is Sidley Austin, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Davis Polk & Wardwell, Fried Frank, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Kirkland & Ellis, Latham & Watkins. See /firms/in/new-york/.

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This ranking is compiled independently by Sartori from public sources. Tiers are Sartori’s editorial opinion, expressed without numeric scores; firms are named for identification only, no logos are reproduced, and no firm has paid for or approved its placement. No third-party legal-directory band is used as an input. Nothing here is legal advice or a recommendation to instruct counsel.