Elizabeth D. Le
Experience
- Insurance Coverage and Litigation: Practice focuses on coverage litigation, insurance subrogation, and defense of bad faith litigation. Experienced in catastrophic fires, explosions, pipeline explosions and failures, generators and turbines, equipment failures, production facility losses, mechanical failures involving a diverse range of products and process equipment, industrial equipment, consumer products and losses caused by welders, construction workers, equipment operators, manufacturers, suppliers, and repair/maintenance providers.
- Business Litigation: Represents large corporations in a variety of business litigation matters, including class action defense, false advertising and deceptive trade practices, fiduciary duties, and breach of contract actions.
- Member of the Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi L.L.P. Diversity Committee.
Selected Results*
Represented several foreign and domestic insurance companies in litigation arising from the Olympic pipeline rupture and explosion in Bellingham, Washington. As a result of the unavailability of the pipeline, Atlantic Richfield sustained business interruption and extra expense losses. The litigation involved the resolution of coverage issues with Atlantic Richfield and a subrogation action against the owner and operator of the pipeline. The subrogation case settled for a confidential amount a month before trial was scheduled to begin in federal court in Seattle.
Co-trial counsel in representation of insurer in breach of contract and bad faith action arising from fire to aquatics and recreation center.
Represented major insurer in multi-million dollar coverage dispute arising from construction defect of large hotel.
Represented insured and insurers in subrogation action arising out of catastrophic failure of power generator for recovery of property and business interruption damage.
Represented major ski lift manufacturer and construction company in a series of products liability actions.
Represented plaintiffs in civil rights litigation concerning unreasonable search and seizure and violations of due process and Fourth Amendment rights.
Recognition
- Named a "Southern California Rising Star," by Law & Politics (2008)**
Languages
Memberships
- American Bar Association, Advisory Panel
- Los Angeles County Bar Association
- Beverly Hills Bar Association
- Century City Bar Association
Civic Associations
- Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Executive Advisory Council
Bar Admissions
- California
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, J.D. (2001); Editor of Loyola Law Review
- Brandeis University, B.A., cum laude (1997)
Selected Speeches
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Poised for Leadership
London Women Insurance Leadership Seminar, London, England
(February 6, 2008)
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