Courtney’s practice focuses on advising businesses and municipalities in insurance coverage and bad faith matters. Her experience litigating in both state and federal courts in North Carolina, and handling appeals in North Carolina’s appellate courts and the Fourth Circuit informs her evaluation of the coverage landscape. Her insurance coverage practice focuses on evaluating general liability, law enforcement liability, public officials liability, employment practices liability, commercial property, excess, and umbrella insurance contracts. She provides coverage opinions, drafts reservation of rights letters and other correspondence to insureds, drafts and amends manuscript policy forms and acts as monitoring counsel.

A graduate of Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, Courtney worked in a molecular genetics laboratory for a Fortune 500 company before attending law school. Courtney received her Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University where she was recognized as an outstanding trial advocate by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Courtney is an active member of DRI’s Insurance Law Committee, collaborating with fellow coverage attorneys across the country, and has served as a council member on the Insurance Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. She has also presented as a continuing legal education instructor for the International Association of Defense Counsel, the North Carolina Association of Municipal Attorneys and the North Carolina Bar Association.

Courtney is a fellow in the American College of Coverage Counsel. She has also earned an AV-rated ranking from Martindale-Hubbell and is Ranked Band 1 by Chambers USA in Insurance Law.