Jack M. Schuler is Managing Partner and Senior Trial Lawyer in the firm. Mr. Schuler graduated in 1979 from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, where he was Associate Editor of the Southwestern University Law Review. Mr. Schuler worked for 10 years with LaFollette, Johnson, DeHaas & Fesler, where he obtained numerous defense verdicts in representation of heath care providers including hospitals, clinics, physicians, and nursing personnel. In 1990, Mr. Schuler was recruited to be the managing partner of the Los Angeles branch office of Erickson, Arbuthnot, Brown, Kilduff & Day, a multi-office California civil litigation firm, where he continued to represent defense interests in professional matters.

Mr. Schuler is a trial specialist, certified by the American Board of Trial Advocates. He has obtained numerous favorable verdicts in trials involving personal injury, wrongful death, real estate matters, environmental matters, products liability, business disputes and intellectual property disputes.

Mike Brown is a partner in the firm. Mr. Brown graduated in 1974 from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. Mike Brown has specialized in the defense of professional negligence claims with a primary focus on litigating claims in the field of medical malpractice. His experience includes the defense of physicians, hospitals, dentists, chiropractors, nurses, physical therapists, and associated healthcare professionals.

He maintains an active trial practice in both State and Federal courts in the State of California. His trial experience includes virtually every branch of medical and hospital service being comprised of over 50 Superior Court trials. He also regularly represents healthcare professionals before the Medical Board of California and the Nursing Board of California. He is a trial specialist certified by the American Board of Trial Advocates, and he is on the faculty of the ABOTA Trial School.

Linda Diane Anderson

Linda Diane Anderson is a senior associate in the firm. Ms. Anderson graduated from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1979 where she was a member of the Southwestern University Law Review. Ms. Anderson specializes in the defense of medical negligence claims including the defense of physicians, nurses, hospitals, and other healthcare practitioners. She is also experienced in representing insurance companies and their insured, in automobile and general liability cases.

Alexander Cohen

Alexander Cohen is a senior associate at Schuler & Brown and a member of the Business and Real Estate Practice Group. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from California State University Northridge in 1992 and his Juris Doctor degree from Kensington University of Law in 1996. He is a member of the California State Bar and the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Mr. Cohen practices general civil litigation, with special emphasis in the areas of real estate, commercial, and business litigation. Mr. Cohen’s practice focuses on all aspects of real estate and contract law, including commercial lease negotiations. He represents a variety of businesses and individuals, and has a diverse clientele base including real estate brokers and agents, real estate developers, contractors, commercial landlords and tenants, property owners, engineers, manufacturers, and wholesalers. Mr. Cohen is also fluent in Farsi.

Sam D. Ekizian

Sam Ekizian is a senior associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He specializes in appellate matters as well as insurance, real estate, and business litigation. He also has significant experience in professional liability and products liability matters. Mr. Ekizian has handled numerous cases in state and federal courts ranging from complex civil litigation to matters involving significant constitutional issues.

Mr. Ekizian recieved his Juris Doctor degree from the University of La Verne where he graduated Summa Cum Laude as Valedictorian. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law for over seven years teaching courses in legal writing. He is active in the legal community and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court, Central District, as well as the Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit. He speaks fluent Armenian.

John D. Hardy

John Hardy is an associate in the firm. His experience is in civil litigation working with both plaintiffs and defendants. Mr. Hardy has a strong track record as a skilled negotiator and has been extremely successful for his clients in mediation, arbitration and litigation. His legal practice and expertise is primarily in the field of real estate including, both litigation and transactional work. He is a licensed real estate broker.

Mr. Hardy also practices law in the fields of insurance bad faith, construction defect, business litigation, and personal injury litigation. Mr. Hardy received his Juris Doctor degree from the University of La Verne and his undergraduate degree from California State University Northridge, graduating with honors from both. He is admitted to practice law in both state court and federal district court.

Daniel E. Hoffman

Daniel E. Hoffman is a senior associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. Mr. Hoffman received his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1982. Mr. Hoffman is an experienced trial attorney and mediator. Mr. Hoffman has extensive experience in defending insurance companies, public entities, contractors, and subcontractors. Mr. Hoffman’s primary practice areas are construction defect litigation, insurance coverage and insurance bad faith litigation, employment law litigation, business litigation, real estate litigation and personal injury litigation.

Mr. Hoffman has served as a settlement conference judge for the Los Angeles Superior Court in Van Nuys and he has served as a Los Angeles Superior Court arbitrator and mediator. Mr. Hoffman was the managing attorney for CNA Insurance Company in Los Angeles, and was responsible for forming CNA’s construction defect department.

Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson is an associate in the firm. Mr. Johnson graduated in 1973 from the University of La Verne College of Law. Mr. Johnson commenced his legal career at the offices of Bonne, Jones & Bridges in Los Angeles with a primary emphasis on litigating medical malpractice defense cases. He has defended physicians, hospitals, dentists, chiropractors, veterinarians, acupuncturists, and holistic practitioners in civil medical malpractice cases and before the California Medical Board regarding licensing issues.

Mr. Johnson has tried over 60 cases to verdict and has been a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates for 15 years. He has been an instructor in the ABOTA Trial School for almost as long. He is an adjunct professor of law at Notre Dame Law School and, through that program has been an instructor for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy for many years. Mr. Johnson regularly gives risk management seminars at the International College of Bariatric Surgeons at their annual meetings in Seattle, Washington and Orlando, Florida. He is a Kaiser Permanente certified neutral arbitrator as well as a Los Angeles County Superior Court panel mediator.

Maurice S. Newman

Maurice Newman is an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He has been a member of the California State Bar since 1985, with proven ability to negotiate and strategize complex legal transactions. Mr. Newman also has extensive litigation experience in matters involving insurance coverage and bad faith disputes as well as cases involving insurance agents’ and brokers’ malpractice, and business litigation matters. He is an Arbitrator-Mediator for the Los Angeles County Superior Courts having heard over 200 arbitrations.

Jacqueline Perry

Jacqueline Perry is a senior associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office and handles litigation matters in England. Ms. Perry graduated from Oxford University in England with a Masters Degree in Law in 1977. From there she attended the College of Law in London and has since been in practice as a Barrister in England. In 2001, she was admitted to the California State Bar. Ms. Perry has been appointed to the rank of Queen’s Counsel (one of Her Majesty’s Counsel) in recognition of her ability and success as an advocate. She has been involved in substantial and ground breaking cases in the UK including co-coordinating and leading the settlement negotiations for the survivors of the thalidomide pharmaceutical disaster resulting in a covenant amounting to more than $300 million for the trust fund established to support this group.

She has brought her expertise to the US and is regarded as a leading expert in all areas of tort litigation for both plaintiffs and defendants. Ms. Perry trained as a mediator with the Notre Dame Law School and teaches advocacy for her Inn of Court, Gray’s Inn in the UK. She has published articles and written for international organizations on Jurisprudence and established books on legal practice. She has appeared on both television and radio in the UK speaking on topical legal issues.

Farid Yadegar

Farid Yadegar is an associate in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1999 and his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in 2004. He is a member of the California State Bar and has served as a mediator on the ADR panel of the Los Angeles Superior Court.

Mr. Yadegar practices general civil litigation, with special emphasis in the areas insurance bad faith, construction defect, business litigation, and toxic mold litigation. He also has extensive experience in real estate transactional work, having served as a financing and development consultant for a commercial development holding company, scouting and locating prime properties for development and participating in all key phases in negotiating for site control, environmental assessments, zoning, purchasing and closing.