Full Profile
Da-Shon Akelan Dixon is a member of the North American Financial Institutions and Directors & Officers (FIDO)/Professional Liability Practice Group at Clyde & Co, specializing in professional liability coverage counseling and litigation. His practice focuses primarily on litigating professional liability coverage disputes on behalf of insurers, including prosecuting declaratory judgment actions, actions to rescind insurance policies, defending breach of contract actions, and handling disputes involving bad faith and/or extra-contractual damages. Da-Shon also litigates actions between insurers to resolve allocation and relative priority issues.
In addition to his litigation work, Da-Shon provides domestic and international insurers with comprehensive advisory services throughout the claim resolution process. This includes delivering coverage opinions, advising on the allocation of indemnity payments, strategizing to mitigate the risk of bad faith and/or extra-contractual damages, and assisting with the collection of consent judgments. Da-Shon also has considerable experience serving as monitoring counsel for insurers.
Before joining Clyde & Co, Da-Shon represented domestic and international insurers in insurance coverage counseling and litigation, specializing in areas such as lawyers' professional liability, directors' and officers' liability, and a broad spectrum of other policy types.
Admissions
- Georgia
- Court of Appeals of the State of Georgia
- Supreme Court of Georgia
- US District Courts for the Southern, Middle, and Northern Districts of Georgia
Education
- J.D., University of Georgia School of Law, 2020
- B.A., Georgia Southern University, 2016
Memberships
- State Bar of Georgia
- Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS)
- BIPoCC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color at Clyde) – Atlanta Office Ambassador
- The Davenport-Benham Chapter of the Black Law Students Association at the University of Georgia School of Law – Vice-President (2018-2019)
