E-mail: Elizabeth B. Celniker

Elizabeth B. Celniker specializes in representation of insurance carriers on coverage matters and insurance coverage litigation.  Since 2003, her focus has been on commercial general liability coverage matters.  Prior to that time, Ms. Celniker worked in defense of first-party property insurance coverage and bad-faith litigation, as an associate at LHB Pacific Law Partners.  She served as a law clerk to the Honorable William B. Shubb at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, where she focused on civil, pretrial law-and-motion matters.  She is a member of the State Bar of California.

Ms. Celniker received her Juris Doctorate from Boalt Hall at the University of California at Berkeley.  At Boalt Hall, she was a 1995-96 Regent’s Scholar and was active as an associate editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and a member of the Ecology Law Quarterly.  Prior to studying law, she worked as a public policy analyst for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Office of the Inspector General.  She attended the University of California at Santa Barbara, where she received a Bachelors of Art degree with Highest Honors in 1990.  Ms. Celniker is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and a National Merit Scholar.