Alan Van Gelder

Alan Van Gelder

Alan Van Gelder

Alan Van Gelder is a partner at the law firm of Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP in Santa Monica, California. He is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law (2002) and California State University Northridge (1999). Since 2002 Mr. Van Gelder has been representing plaintiffs in cases involving severe personal injury, wrongful death, dangerous conditions, product liability, business litigation, and legal malpractice.

Articles written by this author:

The actual-injury provision and the statute of limitations

Legal malpractice: Protecting clients from deals that take their time to go bad

Alan Van Gelder
Christian Nickerson

Marijuana use and the civil jury trial

Marijuana use and the civil jury trial

The rules you must know before evidence of marijuana use is put before the jury

Alan Van Gelder

Pedestrians: Walking the line of dangerous-condition claims

Missing traffic signals, inadequate crosswalks, and improper signage

Alan Van Gelder
Alexis Djivre

Distracted drivers: Seeking punitive damages

Combatting the common defenses when you seek punitive damages against the distracted driver

Alan Van Gelder

Defense medical exams in brain-injury cases

Use motion practice to stop defense experts from abusing the MMPI2 and other testing in brain-injury cases

Alan Van Gelder

Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation

Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation

Do not let Privette’s implied delegation shift the cost of defendant’s harm onto plaintiffs and workers’ compensation carriers

Alan Van Gelder