Adrienne N. Kitchen is a key member of the firm’s mass tort insurance teams, including those handling national hair relaxer and hair dye bodily injury litigation. Her caseload spans some of today’s most demanding litigation environments, including matters involving talc and asbestos liability and ethylene oxide exposure claims arising from medical sterilization facilities. She also handles high-stakes casualty matters such as crane collapse deaths and security guard negligence incidents.
On the professional liability side, Adrienne regularly handles attorney malpractice matters, advising insurers on coverage obligations under lawyer malpractice policies and litigating disputes when claims cannot be resolved. She also counsels clients on trademark, unfair competition, and trade secret disputes, including cases where competing trademark holders seek to force businesses to abandon their marks.
Prior to joining BatesCarey, Adrienne served as Special Counsel at a boutique firm concentrating on complex insurance coverage disputes for corporate policyholders, and as an associate at a large international law firm where she represented policyholders in multi-faceted insurance matters. Adrienne also completed a judicial clerkship for Hon. Diane J. Larsen in the Chancery Division of the Circuit Court of Cook County from 2015 to 2017.
Before law school, Adrienne worked as a journalist, a background that informs her ability to distill complex facts into clear, compelling narratives for judges, juries, and clients alike.
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“Insurance Coverage Issues for Deepfakes,” ABA Coverage Magazine (November 2025) “Insurance Is Key to Managing Global Supply Chain Risk,” ALM’s New York Law Journal (October 2024) “Insurance Coverage Issues, Artificial Intelligence and Deepfakes,” Reuters (October 2024) “Campus Protests May Trigger Insurance Coverage for Property Damage and Economic Losses,” Lexis Nexis (August 2024) “Coverage for Supply Chain Interruptions,” ABA Coverage Magazine (August 2024) “D&O Coverage for DEI-Related ESG Claims,” Reuters (February 2024) “Why 7th Circ.’s BIPA Insurance Analysis Is Significant,” Law360 (July 2023) “A Policyholder’s Self-Insured-Retention Obligations Under a Pollution Legal Liability Policy,” ABA Coverage Magazine(March 2023) “Business Development Best Practice for Policyholder-Side Insurance Recovery Attorneys,” ABA Coverage Magazine (December 2022) “Seventh Circuit ‘Reasonable Costs’ Ruling Is a Win for Policyholders,” Law360 (September 2022) “2 Reasons Why Ill. Virus Coverage Ruling Is Significant,” Law360 (July 2022) “Independent Defense Counsel: Rate Caps, Guidelines, and Deductions (Oh, My!),” ABA Coverage Magazine (July 2022) “Insurance Should Not Manipulate Judiciary to Avoid Regulation,” Law360 (November 2020) “The Ordinance or Law Exclusion: How it (Might) Bar Claims Following Insured Property Loss,” IRMI Insurance Law Essentials Deep Dives (October 2020) “Novel Coronavirus Property Damage Coverage: Property Rights, Physical Loss, Physical Damage, and the Novel Coronavirus,” Insurance Coverage Law Report (October 2020) “The Ordinance or Law Exclusion: How it (Might) Bar Claims Following Insured Property Loss,” American College of Coverage Counsel (May 2019) “You Gotta Have Faith Good Faith,” American College of Coverage Counsel (May 2019) “The Role of Representations and Warranties Insurance Coverage in M&A Activity,” Financier Worldwide (May 2018) “Smart Devices and Criminal Investigations: Protecting Suspects’ Privacy and Fourth Amendment Rights,” Criminal Law Bulletin (August 2017) “When Pre-Trial Diversion Programs Disappear: The Need to Protect Diverted Defendants’ Due Process and Liberty Rights,” Criminal Law Bulletin (February 2017) “Genetic Privacy and Latent Crime Scene DNA of Non-Suspects,” Criminal Law Bulletin (March 2016) “The Need to Criminalize Revenge Porn,” Chicago-Kent Law Review (January 2015) “Don’t Break the Safety Valve’s Heart,” Seventh Circuit Law Review (January 2014)
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“From Wellhead to Wall Street: Insurance, Pollution, Greenwashing, & Securities Liability,” Passport to Calgary! For the Houston Young Lawyer’s Association, University of Houston Law Center, Canadian Bar Association Alberta, and University of Calgary (April 2025) “Insurance Coverage Issues Lurking Behind DeepFakes,” Breakout for the ABA Litigation Section 2025 Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar (March 2025) “Coverage for Supply Chain Disruptions: Caused by UFOS, Alien Abductions, Or Earth-Bound Catastrophes,” ABA ICLC Conference Breakout (March 2024) “To Pay or Not to Pay: Medical Monitoring,” ABA ICLC Conference Breakout (March 2022) “Sound Advice: Biometric Privacy Podcast,” ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (August 2020) “How Many Pollution Incidents are There?” ABA ICLC Conference Roundtable (March 2020) |