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Michael P. Coughlin, Esquire, Principal, Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein, P.C., Commercial Litigation Department

Overview

Michael P. Coughlin is a co-founder and principal of the firm Kaplin Stewart Meloff Reiter & Stein in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and chairman of the firm's Commercial Litigation Department.  Mr. Coughlin has extensive commercial litigation experience, frequently representing title underwriters, employers, businesses, lending institutions and real estate developers in a wide range of commercial disputes in the federal and state courts and government agencies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.  He has substantial experience in mediation and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms, including "private" arbitration, and arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and the National Academy of Conciliators.
For the past fifteen years, the majority of Mr. Coughlin's practice has been devoted to representing title agents, title underwriters and their insureds in title insurance claims litigation, including Stewart Title Guaranty Company, First American Title Insurance Company, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, Industrial Valley Title Insurance Company, Lawyers Title Insurance Corporation, Chicago Title Insurance Company, Fidelity National Insurance Company, Old Republic Title Insurance Company, and United General Title Insurance Company.
He regularly writes and lectures to various groups on issues of interest to the title insurance industry and is currently co-editor of the "Title Policies" section of the Pennsylvania Land Title Association's publication, "Common Ground".  He has represented the Pennsylvania Land Title Association, as amicus curiae, in several appeals before the Pennsylvania appellate courts.
In addition, Mr. Coughlin successfully defended on behalf of four title underwriters over 200 homeowners in the action instituted by the former boxer, Joseph Frazier, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, seeking to set aside deeds to those homeowners as a result of alleged fraud in the chains of title to their properties.

Professional Memberships

• Pennsylvania Bar Association, 01/1900-
• Montgomery County Bar Association, 01/1900-

Previous Firms & Positions Held

Cohen Shapiro Polisher Shiekman & Cohen, Association, 01/1900 -

Cohen Shapiro Polisher Shiekman & Cohen, Associate, 01/1900 -

Colleges Attended

• LaSalle University, 1980
• Temple University School of Law, 1985

Languages Spoken

• English