Mr. Jeff Carlisle has focused his practice on the resolution of insurance coverage disputes through consultation, mediation, arbitration and/or litigation. He served as lead trial attorney for a major US insurer in the Asbestos Insurance Coverage Cases before Judge Brown in San Francisco and has evaluated coverage for insurers involving hundreds of policies issued to various types of mass tort defendants including asbestos, mold, breast implants, environmental pollution and DBCP. In recent years, Mr. Carlisle has developed an additional expertise in consulting regarding various types of medical professional insurance claims.
R. Jeff Carlisle
jcarlisle@lynberg.com213.624.8700
When not working, Mr. Carlisle can be found working out (meaning playing basketball), following any number of sports including his daughter’s college basketball team, hiking through the California coastal mountains with his wife Melinda, or enjoying time with his growing family including his two sons and their wives, his daughter and his grandchildren.
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General
Position at L&W
- – Partner
Practice Areas
- – Mediation Practice as Counsel and as a Mediator
- – Appellate Practice
- – Bad Faith
- – Comprehensive General Liability Coverage
- – Construction Defect
- – Public Entities
- – Employment Practices Liability
- – Healthcare Malpractice
- – Insurance Contract Interpretation & Drafting
- – Mass Torts
- – Personal & Advertising Injury
- – Products & Completed Operations
- – Professional Liability Errors & Omissions
Education
Legal
- – Juris Doctor
- – University of Southern California
- – 1977
Undergraduate
- – University of California, Berkeley
- – 1973
Professional
Bar Affiliations
- – State Bar of California
- – U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- – U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- – U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- – U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
- – U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
Professional Affiliations
- – Association of Southern California Defense Counsel
- – American Bar Association- TIPS
- – International Association of Defense Counsel
Seminars
- – Emerging Toxic Torts
- – Long-tailed Liabilities Coverage Issues
- – Asbestos Liabilities and Trends
- – Asbestos Bankruptcies
- – Notice Issues in Claims Made Policies
Notable
Awards
- – Los Angeles area’s “Best Lawyers – Insurance Law”, 2006 to present
Professional Activities
- – Strauss Institute for Dispute Resolution
- – Los Angeles County Bar Association, Joint Association Settlement Officer
- – AAA Arbitrator
