Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

Bernard London

Los Angeles, CA

• E-Mail: BLondon@LondonFischer.com

Admitted

• New York, 1978
• U.S. District Court, Eastern, Northern, Southern and Western Districts of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
• U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Additional Biographical Details:

Trustee, Village of Lloyd Harbor, 1999; Police Commissioner, Village of Lloyd Harbor; Selected for inclusion in the New York Super Lawyers List (2009-2019)

Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association (Committees on Professional Liability, Reinsurance and Litigation)
• Defense Research Institute

Publications:

• Author and Lecturer on Construction and Insurance Law
• Author of Municipal Zoning Codes, Professional Liability Insurance and Construction Law

Education:

• New York University, B.S., 1972
• The College of Insurance, St. John's University, 1973
• St. John's University School of Law, J.D., 1977

Born: 1950

Richard S. Endres

Los Angeles, CA

• E-Mail: REndres@LondonFischer.com

Practice Areas

• Advertising Injury
• Agent/Broker Liability
• Bad Faith
• Bodily Injury
• Carrier Defense
• Casualty Insurance Law
• Catastrophic Injury
• Commercial Insurance
• Comprehensive General Liability
• Construction Accidents
• Coverage Analysis
• Declaratory Judgments
• Directors and Officers Liability
• Errors and Omissions
• Excess and Surplus Lines
• Excess and Umbrella
• Extra-Contractual Liability
• Extra-Contractual Litigation
• Fire Loss
• Insurance Coverage Litigation
• Insurance Defense
• Medical Products Liability
• Premises Liability
• Product Liability
• Professional Errors and Omissions
• Property and Casualty
• Property Damage
• Risk Management

Admitted

• California, 1989
• New York, 1990
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California, 1989
• Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division - Second Department, 1990
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, 1991
• U.S. District Court, Central and Northern Districts of California, 2003
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California, 2004
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Memberships:

• New York State Bar Association (Sections on Product Liability, Torts and Insurance, Construction, Trial Lawyers)
• State Bar of California (Sections on Product Liability, Torts and Insurance, Construction, Business Litigation)
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Orange County Bar Association (Insurance Section Secretary, 2016-2017; Chair Elect, 2017-2018; Chair, 2018-2019)
• Professional Liability Underwriting Society

Education:

• State University of New York at Albany, B.S., 1985
• California Western School of Law, J.D. (magna cum laude), 1989

Born: 1963

Nicholas Davila

Los Angeles, CA

• E-Mail: ndavila@londonfischer.com

Practice Areas

• Construction Defect
• Defense Litigation
• General Liability
• Product Liability

Admitted

• California, 2008
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of California

Memberships:

• Orange County Bar Association
• Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
• Defense Research Institute

Education:

• University of Vermont, B.A., 2003
• New England School of Law, J.D., 2006

Language:

• Spanish

Born: 1980

Julie E. VanWert

Los Angeles, CA

• E-Mail: jvanwert@londonfischer.com

Practice Areas

• Insurance Coverage
• Employment Law
• Professional Liability

Admitted

• California, 1993
• U.S. District Court, Central District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Memberships:

• State Bar of California
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• National Association of Women Lawyers

Education:

• University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1989
• University of California at Los Angeles School of the Law, J.D., 1993

Born: 1968