Insurance & employment litigation
Trial lawyers for insurance, employment and real estate.
For businesses, policyholders and property owners in California and Nevada.
Insurance
Bad faith, claim assistance and broker liability for policyholders and businesses.
For policyholders and businesses whose insurer denied, delayed or underpaid a valid claim.
Help with a denial or low offer before a lawsuit, alongside your public adjuster.
Claims against brokers whose errors left clients without coverage, and defense of brokerages against errors and omissions claims.
Employment
Wage and hour, PAGA and termination claims, defending employers across California.
Defense of employers in overtime, meal and rest break, and worker classification claims.
Defense of employers against representative actions under California’s Private Attorneys General Act.
Wrongful termination, discrimination and retaliation claims, plus employees with meritorious claims.
Verdicts, dismissals and settlements
Insurance broker liability
$2.4M
Jury verdict against an insurance broker
Los Angeles Superior Court
Insurance broker defense
Dismissed with prejudice
No settlement paid by our client, a national insurance brokerage
Summary judgment
Real estate fraud
$7.7M
Jury verdicts for LLC investors in a fraud and fiduciary duty case
Los Angeles Superior Court
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
Our partners have each practiced law for more than 25 years.
Brandon C. Fernald
Founding Partner
Founded the firm in 2009. Duke Law; seven years at Norton Rose Fulbright. Admitted in California, Nevada, North Carolina and Illinois.
Brandon’s bio
Adam P. Zaffos
Partner
USC Law, 2001. Norton Rose Fulbright and Hogan Lovells, then senior litigator at The Wonderful Company. Admitted in California.
Adam’s bio