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Latham recognized for wins on behalf of clients Michelle Cochran and Fluor Corp.
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Steven Lesan represents policyholders in high-stakes insurance matters, including coverage disputes and bad faith litigation, policy negotiations and renewals, and strategic portfolio management.
Steven regularly handles matters in state or federal courts, or before arbitration panels related to a full spectrum of policies, including:
He has established an impressive track record recovering hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of Fortune 500 policyholders in complex and often cross-border insurance disputes. His sophisticated strategic instinct and exclusive focus on representing policyholders has led to precedent-setting decisions at the California Supreme Court, and favorable ADR solutions to seemingly intractable issues.
Steven's client representation also touches on every aspect of insurance advising, including:
Steven has served as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, lecturing on insurance and environmental law issues.
Prior to practicing law, Steven served as a judicial extern for Judge M. Margaret McKeown of the US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and for Judge Thomas J. Whelan of the US District Court for the Southern District of California, and as a law clerk for the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, Office of the Inspector General. While in law school, Steven was the comments editor for the San Diego Law Review.
Steven's client work includes representing:
Latham recognized for wins on behalf of clients Michelle Cochran and Fluor Corp.
Latham’s success leading the joint defense effort that secured the complete dismissal, with prejudice, of all claims against our client BMW and several other German automakers in the so-called “Circle of Five” emissions conspiracy litigation was chosen among the Top Defense Verdicts of 2020.