Mark B. Holton

Special Counsel

  • Mark B. Holton
  • Phone: +1 212 471 1863

    Import to Address Book

  • Duane Morris LLP
    1540 Broadway
    New York, NY 10036-4086
    USA
  • Duane Morris LLP
    230 Park Avenue, Suite 1130
    New York, NY 10169-0079
    USA

Mark B. Holton is a veteran litigator with experience in securities litigation, class action defense, RICO, insurance and reinsurance, accounting malpractice, legal malpractice and First Amendment law. He has represented investment banks; insurance brokers; insurance and reinsurance firms; accounting, consulting and law firms; the federal government; and major news media organizations. 

Mr. Holton is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he was a member of the Virginia Law Review and elected to the Order of the Coif. He also is a cum laude graduate of Harvard College.

Areas of Practice

  • Insurance and Reinsurance

Admissions

  • New York
  • Louisiana

Education

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1988
    ◦ Virginia Law Review
    ◦ Order of the Coif
  • Harvard College, A.B., cum laude, 1984

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Special Counsel, 2018-2019; 2021-present

  • Vocke Law Group LLP
    - Of Counsel, 2017

  • Grais & Ellsworth LLP
    - Partner, 2010-2017

  • Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
    - Partner, 2002-2010
    - Of Counsel, 1998-2001

  • Correro, Fishman, Haygood LLP
    - Partner, 1997-1998

Professional Activities

  • American Bar Association

Representative Matters

  • Represented APCIA, the largest insurance trade association in the United States, in successfully persuading a Washington state superior court to grant a motion for summary judgment to invalidate an emergency regulation by the Washington Insurance Commissioner to ban the use of credit history in insurance underwriting, a ban predicated on the contention that credit reporting safeguards for consumers during the pandemic resulted in unfair discrimination. Successfully argued that the Commissioner failed to establish the requisite good cause necessary to adopt an emergency regulation without tangible evidence of unfair discrimination.