Jeffrey A. Charlston

Jeffrey A. Charlston, an equity partner in the Firm, is a business litigator who heads up the Firm’s professional liability defense practice and the Firm’s insurance coverage practice for subject matters other than asbestos, environmental and mass tort claims. Mr. Charlston has extensive experience in the handling of all phases of civil litigation, from the commencement of litigation through trial and appeal. He specializes in the defense of professional liability claims involving a variety of professions including lawyers, insurance agents and brokers, and real estate agents and brokers, as well as general business and commercial litigation, and in the representation of insurers in connection with coverage advice, declaratory relief actions, and bad faith defense, in subject matters involving professional liability, director and officer liability, public entity liability, general liability, and personal lines (automobile liability and homeowner liability).

 

Born in Los Angeles, California, Mr. Charlston received his Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Pomona College in 1971, and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, in 1975, where he was the recipient of the American College of Trial Lawyers Medal for Excellence in Advocacy, and was a member of the Moot Court Executive Board. Mr. Charlston is a member of the State Bar of California and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts, the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court of the United States.  Mr. Charlston has also litigated cases in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon. Mr. Charlston is a member of the Professional Liability and Litigation Sections of the American Bar Association, the Defense Research Institute, the Professional Liability Underwriting Society, and the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM).

 

Mr. Charlston is the author of “Defending Legal Malpractice Claims,” Prosecuting and Defending Insurance Claims (Wiley Law Publications, 1989).