ASHFORD&ROWEPrivate Insurance Counsel (617) 555-0195
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Professional Liability · Private Client · Boston

Counsel for what
you've built.

Ashford & Rowe advises professional firms and private clients on the risks that matter — with the discretion, precision, and access of private counsel.

By appointment · (617) 555-0195

A different standard

We insure professional reputations and private estates — quietly, precisely, personally.

Est. 2011Boston · Back BayBy consultationMA Lic. #1987234
Practice Areas

Three disciplines.
Practiced deeply.

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I.

Professional Liability

Errors & omissions programs for firms whose names are their balance sheets. We negotiate manuscript wordings, defend panel-counsel choice, and read every exclusion twice.

For Law · Architecture · Finance · Consultancies

Inquire
One-on-one advisory meeting over drawings in a refined office
II.

Directors & Officers

D&O towers, employment practices, and fiduciary coverage for boards that prefer their names in annual reports — not case captions. Side-A structures a specialty.

For Boards · Funds · Founders · Nonprofits

Inquire
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III.

Private Client

High-value homes, collections, marine, and personal excess — placed with carriers whose appraisers know a Sargent from a print, arranged around your family office, not ours.

For Estates · Collections · Coastal Property

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Insured value under counsel
Client retention · 10 yr
Median partner response
Founded · Back Bay
Eleanor Rowe and James Ashford, founding partners
The Firm

Two partners.
No account managers.

Ashford & Rowe was founded on an old-fashioned premise: the person who places your coverage should be the person who answers when something goes wrong. Clients are accepted by referral and capacity — we would rather do less, better.

Between them, the partners have placed and defended coverage through two financial crises, one pandemic, and several hundred renewals that never made the news. That is the point.

  • James Ashford, CPCUProfessional Lines · ex-AIG Financial Lines
  • Eleanor Rowe, JDPrivate Client & D&O · ex-coverage counsel
  • Advisory bench of 6claims, appraisal & risk engineering
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When our E&O carrier reserved rights, Eleanor was in our conference room the next morning. Not on a call. In the room.

Managing Partner · AmLaw 200 firm · client since 2014

Engagement

How a relationship begins

01

Consultation

A private conversation about your firm or estate — exposures, ambitions, and what keeps you up at night. No brokers' theater.

02

The Audit

We read every current policy line by line and deliver a written opinion: gaps, overlaps, and what we would change. Yours to keep, either way.

03

Placement & Stewardship

Coverage placed with carriers we would defend in front of your board. Then an annual cadence of review — and a partner's cell number.

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Boston · Back Bay · Since MMXI
Consultation

Begin the conversation

Tell us briefly about your firm or your holdings. A founding partner — not an associate — will respond within one business day to arrange a time.

Held in strict confidence. No mailing lists, ever.

Received, with thanks.

A founding partner will respond within one business day. If the matter is urgent, telephone the office directly.

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