Krishna J. Shah
Krishna J. Shah is the Associate Editor of the Legal Malpractice Law Review. Her practice is focused on the defense of legal malpractice claims. She is also experienced in handling coverage claims for insurers on a variety of policies, including professional liability, commercial general liability, and excess and umbrella. Most recently, Krishna successfully argued that a New Jersey lawyer who practices as a professional corporation has a duty to report all malpractice claims to his or her malpractice carrier and must also cooperate with the carrier in the defense of the claims. The case was one of first impression and the import of the ruling is that attorneys who practice as a PC, LLC or LLP and who must therefore carry malpractice insurance under New Jersey Court Rule 1:21-1A, cannot deprive former clients who sue for malpractice of the benefit of that mandatory malpractice insurance coverage by defending themselves pro se. Krishna serves as the co-author of the New Jersey Law Journal’s Annual Review of the New Jersey Supreme Court’s decisions in the areas of legal ethics and malpractice.
Krishna graduated from Rutgers University with Honors in Political Science (B.A. 2001) and from the George Washington University Law School (J.D. 2005) where she earned Honors in Oral Advocacy and Legal Research and Writing. She is admitted to practice law in New Jersey, New York, and the United States District Court, District of New Jersey. She is an associate in the Hackensack, NJ office of Rivkin Radler, LLP .
