Our Appellate Practice

Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich is a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School, and is certified by the State Bar of California as an appellate specialist.  He has briefed or supervised the briefing in over 250 appeals, and has argued more than 100 appeals in courts across the United States, including the U.S. Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court. He has more than 45 published opinions, including landmark opinions concerning insurance bad faith, ERISA, Medicare, and arbitration. The Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (“CAALA”), the third-largest trial-lawyer organization in the United States, has twice honored him as its Appellate Lawyer of the Year (in 2004 and 2008).  He is the only two-time winner of the award.

You can tell a lot about an appellate lawyer by the trial lawyers who hire him, and by the opponents they take on together.

Our appellate clients include some of California’s most prominent trial lawyers: William Shernoff, Michael J. Bidart, Michael Alder, Gary Paul, Ricardo Echeverria, Paul Kiesel, Phil Michels, Daniel J. Callahan, Dan Stormer, Shirley Watkins, Steve Heimberg, Tony Stuart, and Daniel Zohar.

Our opponents have included companies of enormous wealth and power, who hire the best corporate defense firms: Anthem Blue Cross, Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Blue Shield of California, PacifiCare, Health Net, Allstate, State Farm, Progressive, Mercury, 21st Century, Kaiser Permanente, UNUM, Nationwide, National Steel & Shipbuilding, Arch Insurance, Pacific Specialty Insurance, State Fund, Crum & Forster, Farmers, MEGA Life, Gulf Insurance, AIG, McDonald’s Corp., Liberty Mutual, Evanston Ins., the Hartford,  National Union, Lexington Ins., Chubb Insurance, Safeco, Auto Club of So. Cal., Travelers, and CIGNA.

If we can take on opponents like these and win, the odds are good that we can help you with your next appeal.

Our Insurance-Litigation Practice

While the bulk of our practice involves appellate litigation, we also take on a limited number of trial-level matters.  Our expertise in legal writing increases the chances of prevailing on summary judgment and getting the matter to trial. And our analysis of insurance issues is so well-respected that we are sometimes approached by insurance companies. For example, we were recently asked by a title insurer to evaluate whether to make a $17 million claim against its liability insurer.  

So, if you, your family, or your business is involved in an insurance-related dispute, we may be able to help.