Friedman, Alan E.

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

Alan Friedman is a trial lawyer with 40 years experience in complex business litigation, arbitration, and mediation. His broad practice includes disputes in health care reimbursement, human organ transplant, hospital development, computer systems integration, hotel partnership and hotel owner-operator relations, religious denominations, agricultural cooperatives, real estate, and asset valuations.

Alan represents clients in state and federal trial and appellate courts and in AAA, JAMS, and other arbitrations and mediations. He recently tried and won a multimillion dollar computer systems integration case before a Los Angeles JAMS arbitration panel for a children's hospital against one of the world's largest computer outsourcing companies, then successfully defended the hospital's arbitration award in the courts. He also won summary judgment in San Francisco superior court in favor of a religious denomination, affirmed on appeal, to prevent a member church from taking millions of dollars of church assets out of the denomination.

Alan is a past president of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers. He initiated and chaired a statewide ABTL Discovery Rules Task Force of lawyers and judges, which formulated streamlined discovery procedures for use in civil business cases (downloadable at http://abtl.org/casemanagementorder.htm). He serves on the Los Angeles Superior Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and its ADR Operations Subcommittee. Alan is a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of California, and the Los Angeles County Bar Association, where he has served on several committees on federal court practices.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• International Litigation & Arbitration
• Health Care
• Alternative Dispute Resolution & Mediation
• Construction Litigation
• Litigation/Health Care
• Construction
• Hospitality

Representative Cases

• Albertson's defends price scanner accuracy claims
• Albertson's wins motion to dismiss in case alleging violation of RICO claims
• Childrens Hospital of L.A. wins $2M in overcharges on computer systems outsourcing contract , (2009)
• City of Hope prosecutes professional negligence and fraud action against two law firms and private investigation firm , (2009)
• Group of individuals and corporations win summary judgment in L.A. Superior Court real estate partnership action
• Los Angeles Unified School District favorably resolves $10 million breach of contract and construction delay action by general contractor and electric subcontractor for renovations at several schools
• Los Angeles Unified School District successfully resolves dispute seeking $1 million for breach of HVAC contract
• Mandarin Oriental International sells 40% interest in hotel partnership to Kahala Royal Corp
• Mandarin Oriental successfully defends against arbitration involving partnership dispute
• Medical software company obtains preliminary injunction in dispute with primary licensee

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Business & Commercial Law, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Contracts, Disability, Elder Law, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, Food & Drug Administration, Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Medicare & Medicaid, Mental Health, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Nursing Home, Patent Litigation, Social Security -- Disability, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• Amherst College
• Stanford University

Address

555 South Flower Street
Fiftieth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300

Phones

1.213.243.2517 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.213.243.2539 (Business Fax)

Emails

Contact Us (Business Email)

Websites

http://www.jonesday.com