Betsy Cook Lanzen focuses her practice in the areas of commercial litigation and insurance coverage disputes for policyholders. Ms. Lanzen has extensive litigation experience, having handled a wide range of business disputes, including complex contract matters, insurance coverage disputes, and trademark and trade secret cases in federal and state courts across the country as well as various arbitration forums. She frequently counsels clients about legal issues impacting their day-to-day business operations and transactions.

Ms. Lanzen has represented policyholders in insurance coverage matters involving builders’ risk polices, commercial general liability and directors and officers insurance. She has prosecuted actions and defended clients in a variety of trade secret, intellectual property and unfair and deceptive trade practices claims. Ms. Lanzen has also litigated many complex contract disputes for multi-million dollar companies.

In 2011, Ms. Lanzen was selected as one of the Triangle's Women Extraordinaire by Business Leader Magazine. She was the recipient of the 2008 Impact Pro Bono Award from Business Leader Magazine. Ms. Lanzen is a board member of the Eastern Distict of North Caronlina Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and regularly participates in the annual MS Bike Tour where she rides more than 150 miles to raise money for the Chapter.

Professional & Community Activities

Leadership Raleigh (2006-2007)

National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Eastern District of North Carolina Chapter, Board of Trustees

North Carolina YLD Poverty Issues Committee, Former Chair

Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Member and Participant in the Inter-City Visit Exchange

Wake County Young Lawyers' Division, Past President North Carolina Young Lawyers' Division, Past Division Director

Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, J.D. (1998)
    with honors, Morehead Scholar
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., Political Science and International Studies (1993)
    with distinction

Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina (1998)

Court Admissions

  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (2000)
  • U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (2000)
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (2000)
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Who We Are

What fully engaged means to me:

Working relentlessly to deliver exceptional results to our clients, our community and the firm.

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Betsy Cook Lanzen

Experience Highlights

Lulu Enterprises Inc. v. Hulu LLC
The firm served as lead trial counsel for Hulu LLC, a news corporation, and NBC Universal collaborative venture in the suit related to the launch of more
Intellectual property and litigation for an aerospace and automotive products manufacturer
Defended an aerospace and automotive products manufacturer in a complex intellectual property licensing dispute involving allegations of breach of more
Environmental complex business litigation for paper manufacturing company
The firm serves as lead counsel on behalf of a paper manufacturing company in environmental complex business litigation regarding a liability dispute more
Trade secrets claim against a large financial institution
Represented a large financial institution in a trade secrets action. We resolved claim prior to arbitration. more