Michael Alder
Owner/Senior Trial Attorney | Alder Law, P.C.
Michael Alder is a personal injury, employment law and wrongful death trial lawyer and owner/senior trial attorney of Alder Law, P.C. in Sherman Oaks, California. Admitted in California and Louisiana; J.D., Louisiana State University.
Meet Michael
Michael Alder is the owner and senior trial attorney of AlderLaw, a Los Angeles-area plaintiffs’ firm based in Sherman Oaks, California. He represents people in personal injury, wrongful death, employment and business tort litigation, and the firm also works on behalf of municipalities in ground and water contamination cases.
Alder earned both his undergraduate and law degrees at Louisiana State University and is licensed in California and Louisiana. In 2011 he obtained a $39.4 million verdict in Ventura County, a $29.1 million personal injury verdict in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, and a $33 million breach-of-contract award with punitive damages in Los Angeles County, making him the first lawyer in the country with three verdicts on VerdictSearch’s Top 100 list in a single year.
Alder was the 2012 president of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, which also named him its Trial Lawyer of the Year, and California Lawyer gave him a Clay Award as its 2014 personal injury attorney of the year. He founded Los Angeles Trial Lawyers Charities and the American Museum of Tort Law, sits on the board of the Inner-City Law Center and created the Warrior Fund, which offers case funding to newer lawyers taking on large corporations and insurers.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., Louisiana State University
- Undergraduate degree, Louisiana State University
- Admitted: State Bar of California
- Admitted: State Bar of Louisiana
Practice Areas
- Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (President, 2012; Board of Governors since 2001)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Member since 2003)
- Consumer Attorneys of California (Member since 2001)
- Los Angeles Trial Lawyers' Charities (Founder; 2018 President)
- Inner-City Law Center (Board Member)
- American Museum of Tort Law (Founder)
- Los Angeles Superior Court Bench/Bar Committee
- Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA (Board of Directors, since 2023)
- California Lawyer, Clay Award / Personal Injury California Attorney of the Year (2014)
- CAALA Trial Lawyer of the Year (youngest recipient)
- Southern California Super Lawyers (2004-2019)
- Three-time nominee, California Trial Lawyer of the Year
- Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyers in California (2011)
- Daily Journal Top 20 Under 40 (2005)
- $39.4 Million Verdict: Personal injury verdict in Ventura County (2011), described by his bio as the largest in the county’s history.
- $33 Million Award: Breach of contract award with punitive damages in Los Angeles County (2011).
- $29.1 Million Verdict: Personal injury verdict in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana (2011).
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