Gina M. Foran

Senior Associate

  • Gina M. Foran
  • Phone: +1 213 689 7426

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Gina Foran is a Senior Associate practicing in the firm’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She has nearly a decade of experience handling complex, high-stakes commercial litigation, with a primary focus on insurance coverage and bad faith matters.

Ms. Foran represents domestic and international insurers in coverage disputes involving environmental liability, toxic torts, personal injury, and product liability claims. Her practice includes providing strategic coverage analysis and opinions, advising on claims handling and risk exposure, and litigating coverage and extra-contractual disputes in state and federal courts across the country. In addition to her insurance practice, Ms. Foran has experience in bankruptcy and insolvency-related litigation, including asbestos and mass tort bankruptcies and state receivership proceedings involving complex claims administration and insurance recovery issues.

Ms. Foran is also active in the Firm’s Gaming Industry and Appellate practice groups, where she contributes to briefing and strategy in trial and appellate matters involving commercial and regulatory disputes.

She has been recognized for her work by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch and California Super Lawyers: Rising Stars. Ms. Foran is a member of the American Bar Association, Professional Business Women of California, and the National Association of Women Lawyers.

Ms. Foran received her J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law in 2016 and earned her B.A. from San Francisco State University in 2012.

Areas of Practice

  • Litigation

  • Insurance Coverage Litigation

  • Business Reorganization and Financial Restructuring

Representative Matters

  • Represented an insurer in obtaining a dismissal without leave to amend at the demurrer stage in a duty to defend declaratory relief action filed by the insured against several insurers. The demurrer argued that the complaint failed to allege an actual controversy between the client and the insured, and that the policy language required neither a duty to defend nor a duty to reimburse defense costs. Because the policies had been filed in the same court in a different case, the court was able to review them and make the determination at the pleading stage that there was no duty to defend or to reimburse defense costs absent consent of the client.

  • Successfully demurred to the entire complaint in a breach of fiduciary duty, negligent misrepresentation, and intentional misrepresentation case against a third-party administrator and employee; simultaneously successfully moved to strike punitive damages without leave to amend based on insufficient allegations for punitive damages sought relief.

  • Represented insurance company in complex South Carolina litigation involving asbestos receivership actions, including in an action against insurer whereby we obtained dismissal of said action prior to needing to file responsive pleading.

  • Defeated putative class action to recover alleged gambling losses filed against freemium + sweepstakes operator Fliff in United States District Court for Central District of California. Obtained decision that Fliff Terms of Use were enforceable and that the named plaintiff’s case was subject to individual arbitration. Class action case dismissed. Bishoy Nessim v. Fliff, Inc., Case 5:23-cv-01048-SSS-SHK (USDC, CD Cal.)

  • Represented an insurance company in a matter concerning numerous claimants’ sexual abuse allegations against various institutions.

  • Representing an insurer in an asbestos bankruptcy case in Washington bankruptcy court, obtaining a complete victory at the district court appellate level in a case of first impression involving the use of a section 363 sale and a 105 injunction relating to insurance settlements.

  • Represented an insurance company in a matter concerning the tension between trade secret protections and customer information.

Pro Bono Matters

  • Representing clients in defensive asylum proceedings with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Admissions

  • California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California

Education

  • University of San Diego School of Law, J.D., 2016
  • San Francisco State University, B.A., 2012

Experience

  • Duane Morris LLP
    - Senior Associate, 2025-present
    - Associate, 2018-2024

  • Selman Breitman LLP
    - Associate, 2016-2017

Professional Activities

  • Bar Association of San Francisco
    - Insurance Practice of the Barristers Club Section

  • National Association of Women Lawyers

Honors and Awards

  • Named to Best Lawyers "Ones to Watch," 2026
  • Listed in Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Stars