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After reviewing nearly 900 nominations, the legal-news website Law360 has identified 160 lawyers as its � �attorneys who have distinguished themselves from their peers over the past year through high-stakes litigation, record-breaking deals, and complex global matters.� Among those included is a 91����� Aquinas College alumnus: Raymond Tittmann (�94).

A partner in the Los Angeles office of Wargo French, Mr. Tittmann is a litigator specializing in insurance coverage, class and collective action, unfair competition, and complex commercial litigation. This year, he �helped a subsidiary of The Home Depot negotiate a global settlement of thousands of claims brought by homeowners and their insurers,� write the website�s editors, �landing him on the list of Law360�s 2019 Insurance MVPs.�

In its , Law360 discusses how Mr. Tittmann was able to negotiate a $100 million class-action lawsuit down to a $24 million settlement. �Working with the varied stakeholders instead of against them, we were able to create a win-win opportunity to achieve global peace for all concerned,� he says. The story also describes his �most challenging case� of the year, representing seven insurance underwriters in a complicated dispute for which there was no known precedent. �Solving your client�s problem,� he notes, �almost always requires a creative solution to narrow disputes rather than expand them.�

Asked why he chose to become an insurance attorney, Mr. Tittmann references his time at the College. �I always tell people, if you can read Aristotle, you can read an insurance policy,� he says. �Every time I�m asked to parse a sentence in a policy or debate the meaning of the word �occurrence,� I feel like I�m back in college.�