David L. Brandon

    Partner
    Los Angeles
    Direct: 213.417.5306
    Main: 213.891.9100

    Practice Focus:

    • Main Biography
    • Appellate Advocacy
    • Commercial Law, Intellectual Property & Unfair Competition
    • Construction Law
    • Lawyers' Professional Liability
    • Professional Liability

    David Brandon has over 20 years of litigation experience in the representation of clients in state and federal courts at the trial and appellate levels. His clients have been involved in diverse sectors of the economy, including lending, loan servicing, water supply, construction and design, insurance, housing, retail and legal services. He has represented clients in both the prosecution and defense of a wide variety of claims, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of commercial contracts, securities fraud, professional liability and intellectual property disputes.

    David has taken an active role in the issues that are important to the members of the legal profession. In April 2004, he was featured on the cover of Los Angeles Lawyer in connection with his featured article “Burning Issues: The Representation of Insureds Under Burning Limits Policies.” He currently serves on the Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has spoken to groups of business people, attorneys and law students on topics including the preservation of electronic evidence, ethics, claims prevention and the identification of fraudulent claims. David has also served as an Adjunct Professor of Appellate Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

    Selected reported decisions include Weseloh Family Ltd. Partnership v. K.L. Wessel Const. Co. (2004) 125 Cal.App.4th 152; Carlson v. Blatt (2001) 87 Cal.App.4th 646; ITT Small Business Finance Corp. v. Niles (1994) 9 Cal.4th 245; and De La Pena v. Wolfe (1986) 177 Cal.App.3d 481.

    Education

    • Loyola Law School, 1982
    • California State University, Northridge, 1979

    Court Admissions

    • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    • United States District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California

    Bar Admissions

    • California, 1982

    Professional Memberships and Activities

    • Defense Research Institute, Professional Liability Committee, Program Vice Chair
    • American Bar Association
    • Los Angeles County Bar Association, Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee
    • Adjunct Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, teaching Appellate Advocacy

    Distinctions

    • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated – Martindale-Hubbell
    • 2010 Southern California Super Lawyer
    • 2009 Southern California Super Lawyer
    • 2008 Southern California Super Lawyer
    • 2006 Southern California Super Lawyer

      Other Information

      • Pro bono work for the Western Law Center for Disability Rights

      Speeches and Publications

      • Proper Use of Contingent Expert Contracts, County Bar Update, November 2009
      • California Court of Appeal Limits Ability of Trial Court to Impose Monetary Sanctions for Unethical Conduct, Lawyers Professional Liability Advisory, July 2009
      • Two Courts Limit Potential Exposure to Non-Clients, Lawyers Professional Liability Advisory, April 2009
      • Attorneys Investigating Potential Claims Should Word Their Advertisements With Care, Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, May 2008
      • The Burden Of Full Disclosure Regarding Transactions With Clients May Be Too High To Satisfy, Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, March 2008
      • California Supreme Court Imposes Duty on Attorneys To Refrain From Using Inadvertently Received Privileged Information, Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, December 2007 (Click here to view this article from the American Bar Association website.)
      • Continuous Representation Tolling Provisions Do Not Apply to Former Law Firms, Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, October 2007 (Click here to view this article from the American Bar Association website).
      • Limitation of Liability Clauses and Equitable Indemnity Claims, Construction Briefings, September 2007
      • Attorney Self-Defense and the Duty of Confidentiality, County Bar Update, May 2007 (The website is http://www.lacba.org/showpage.cfm?pageid=7832)
      • Don’t Delay - Act Right Away, Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, January 2007
      • "Reasonableness Rule Limits Damages Tied to Cost of Defense of Discovery Sanctions Motion," Lawyers’ Professional Liability Advisory, June 2006 (Click here to view this article on the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability Web Site.)
      • "Who's Watching? Beware the Vulnerabilities of Communicating through Advanced Technology," County Bar Update, January 2006 (Click here to view this article on the L.A. County Bar Association Web Site.)
      • "Borissoff: Attorney Duties Can Run to Third Party that Legislature Determines Assumes Rights, Powers of Original Client,"County Bar Update, November 2004 (Click here to view this article on the L.A. County Bar Association Web Site.)
      • "Burning Issues: The Representation of Insureds Under Burning Limits Policies," Los Angeles Lawyer, April 2004 (click here to view this article.)
      • "Is it Better to Burn Out or to Fade Away?", American Bar Association, Fall 2004 National Legal Malpractice Conference, San Francisco, Panel Participant
      • "Ethical Issues and the Burning Limits Policy," West Coast Casualty Construction Defect Seminar, Panel Participant, May 3, 2003
      • "Ethical Issues in Entertainment Law," Beverly Hills Bar Association, Panel Participant, January 23, 2003
      • "Claims Handling and Referral Procedures for Suspected Fraudulent Claims," Westport Insurance Corporation, Panel Participant, August 23-24, 1999
      • "Preventing Legal Malpractice in the Specialties," Lawyers’ Mutual Insurance Company, Panel Participant, March 12, 1993
      • Frequent guest lecturer to law students on Law Practice Management and Ethics