Overview
Allan B. Cooper is a Partner in the Litigation Department.
His practice focuses on business and commercial litigation, including:
- Appellate
- Breach of fiduciary relationships
- Business torts, contracts, trade secrets and competitive business practices
- Insurance litigation, including professional liability and legal malpractice, bad faith, and coverage
- Land use, zoning, and environmental disputes
- Real estate litigation, including representing financial institutions, developers, title insurers, mortgage bankers and others in matters involving:
- Brokerage
- Commercial landlord-tenant problems
- Construction and mechanics’ liens
- Lenders’ liability
- Lis pendens expungement
- Real property security instruments
- Specific performance
- PMI and mortgage guaranty insurance
- Title problems
Allan has had numerous published appellate decisions and is the author of Beware: Anti-Growthers Snag Building Permits First, California Builder, 1987; Lis Pendens Expungement Practice: Still Not Much Relief for the Property Owner, Beverly Hills Bar Journal, 1980; and The Prosecutor’s Role in California Sentencing: Advocate or Informant?, UCLA Law Review, 1973.
Allan served as a consultant for the California Continuing Education of the Bar in 1992 on their publication Handling a Real Property Foreclosure. He is a contributing author of Use and Abuse of Interrogatories, California Continuing Education of the Bar, 1983, 1986.
He is a former clinical lecturer in law at the University of Southern California and currently teaches business law at California State University Northridge.
Education
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Order of the Coif
A.B., University of California, Los Angeles, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Practice Areas
Admissions
- California
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court