Biography
John S. Diaconis practices in the area of insurance and reinsurance claims and acts as an arbitrator in reinsurance matters, having been certified by ARIAS U.S. He has almost thirty years of experience in the industry as both in-house and outside counsel. Mr. Diaconis is a partner with Bleakley Platt & Schmidt, LLP, and served as Vice-President and Claims Counsel with Hartford Financial Services Group. Prior to that, he was a Partner first at Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker and later at Peterson & Ross. Mr. Diaconis also served as Law Clerk to Hon. Joel J. Tyler in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York upon his graduation from law school. He received his J.D. from Drake University Law School, where he was a member of Law Review, and his LL.M. from New York University School of Law.