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概述

Allan Edmiston is a trial lawyer with deep experience and a proven track record in high-stakes, difficult cases. He is also one of Loeb’s General Counsel, responsible for overseeing legal ethics and risk management matters across Loeb’s eight offices.  

Allan leads Loeb’s multidisciplinary Professional Services Litigation team. He defends professional services firms, including law firms and their lawyers, against claims for malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, aiding and abetting, malicious prosecution, and fraud, arising out of a variety of contexts and practice areas. In a recent legal malpractice arbitration, Allan obtained a defense award, including prevailing-party attorneys’ fees, for an Am Law 200 law firm.

Allan also litigates major real estate disputes involving breach of contract claims, preemptive rights, landlord-tenant issues, title insurance coverage and bad faith claims, priority rights, and easements. Allan’s trial victories in this area include a defense verdict – after a seven-week jury trial – for a leading title insurer in a case involving a bad faith claim seeking $100 million in damages.

Most recently, following years of litigation, a trial and an appeal, Allan obtained a published appellate decision affirming that the renowned Claremont Colleges are entitled to enforce – as equitable servitudes dating back decades, to 1957 – a right of first offer and an educational use restriction, both burdening the former campus of the Claremont School of Theology.

…You have done an outstanding job arguing this case. Your client should be very proud of your representation. I really mean that. CA Superior Court judge commenting on Allan’s advocacy following closing argument during trial

Finally, Allan has considerable experience litigating complex corporate matters, including shareholder derivative suits, investor actions, and contests over corporate control, as well as business and other commercial disputes involving claims for breach of contract, unfair competition and business torts, among others.

As part of his pro bono efforts, Allan has served as a prosecutor for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, trying misdemeanors including battery, trespass, theft and vehicular hit-and-run.

  • "Walking the Tightrope: Managing Risk in a Litigation Practice," Law Firm CLE
    Presenter
  • “It’s a Jungle Out There: Liability Traps for the Transactional Lawyer,” Law Firm CLE
    Presenter
  • “Real Risk in Real Estate Practice,” Aon Law Firm Symposium
    Panelist

教育背景

  • 埃默里大学法学院法学博士, 法学博士
  • Trinity College (CT), 文学学士

所属法院

  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

执业资格

  • 加利福尼亚州

承认

  • Named "Best Lawyer" in Commercial Litigation (2021-2025) and Intellectual Property Litigation (2023-2025), The Best Lawyers in America, published by Woodward White, Inc.
  • Named "Southern California Super Lawyer" in Business Litigation, published by Thomson Reuters (2017-2023)
  • Named "Southern California Rising Star" in Business Litigation, published by Thomson Reuters (2009-2011, 2014-2016)
  • Named Up-and-Coming 100, Southern California Rising Stars, published by Thomson Reuters (2016)

联系

  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America (an invitation-only, peer-selected trial lawyer honorary society)
  • Director and Vice-President, Attorneys Insurance Mutual Risk Retention Group
  • Director, Western Justice Center
  • Member, Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Member, Judicial Appointments Committee, Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers
  • Former Member, Board of Fellows, Trinity College (CT)