Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts



Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense


515 Flower Street, Suite 1000, Los Angeles, California 90071

Practice Areas

  • Construction Law
  • Professional Liability
  • Admiralty and Maritime Law
  • Civil Rights
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Directors and Officers Liability
  • Employment Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Fidelity and Surety
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Regulation
  • Marine Insurance
  • Mass Tort
  • Municipal Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Property Loss
  • Reinsurance
  • Subrogation
  • Toxic Torts
  • Transportation
  • Trucking Law
  • Employment Litigation and Counseling
  • Catastrophic Loss Investigations and Litigation
  • National Appellate Practice
  • National Trial Practice
  • Professional Contracts and Disputes


Additional Locations


Personnel Information

Founding Partner


Bernard London

Los Angeles, CA

Admitted
  • New York, 1978
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Federal Claims
Additional Biographical Details:

Trustee, Village of Lloyd Harbor, 1999; Police Commissioner, Village of Lloyd Harbor; Selected for inclusion in the New York Super Lawyers List (2009-2019)

Memberships:
  • New York State Bar Association (Committees on Professional Liability, Reinsurance and Litigation)
  • Defense Research Institute
Publications:
  • Author and Lecturer on Construction and Insurance Law
  • Author of Municipal Zoning Codes, Professional Liability Insurance and Construction Law
Education:
  • New York University, B.S., 1972
  • The College of Insurance, St. John's University, 1973
  • St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1977

Born: 1950

Partners


Richard S. Endres

Los Angeles, CA

Practice Areas
  • Advertising Injury
  • Agent/Broker Liability
  • Bad Faith
  • Bodily Injury
  • Carrier Defense
  • Casualty Insurance Law
  • Catastrophic Injury
  • Commercial Insurance
  • Comprehensive General Liability
  • Construction Accidents
  • Coverage Analysis
  • Declaratory Judgments
  • Directors and Officers Liability
  • Errors and Omissions
  • Excess and Surplus Lines
  • Excess and Umbrella
  • Extra-Contractual Liability
  • Extra-Contractual Litigation
  • Fire Loss
  • Insurance Coverage Litigation
  • Insurance Defense
  • Medical Products Liability
  • Premises Liability
  • Product Liability
  • Professional Errors and Omissions
  • Property and Casualty
  • Property Damage
  • Risk Management
Admitted
  • California, 1989
  • New York, 1990
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1989
  • Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division - Second Department, 1990
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, 1991
  • U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California, 2003
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2004
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Memberships:
  • New York State Bar Association (Sections on Product Liability, Torts and Insurance, Construction, Trial Lawyers)
  • State Bar of California (Sections on Product Liability, Torts and Insurance, Construction, Business Litigation)
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • Orange County Bar Association (Insurance Section Secretary, 2016-2017; Chair Elect, 2017-2018; Chair, 2018-2019)
  • Professional Liability Underwriting Society
Education:
  • State University of New York at Albany, B.S., 1985
  • California Western School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1989

Born: 1963


Nicholas Davila

Los Angeles, CA

Practice Areas
  • Construction Defect
  • Defense Litigation
  • General Liability
  • Product Liability
Admitted
  • California, 2008
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Memberships:
  • Orange County Bar Association
  • Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
  • Defense Research Institute
Education:
  • University of Vermont, B.A., 2003
  • New England School of Law, J.D., 2006
Language:
  • Spanish

Born: 1980


Julie E. VanWert

Los Angeles, CA

Practice Areas
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Employment Law
  • Professional Liability
Admitted
  • California, 1993
  • U.S. District Court, Central District of California
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
Memberships:
  • State Bar of California
  • Los Angeles County Bar Association
  • National Association of Women Lawyers
Education:
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1989
  • University of California at Los Angeles School of the Law, J.D., 1993

Born: 1968


(See profile under New York, NY for additional information)

(This firm also appears in the Subrogation section of this publication)

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