Reed Aljian

Reed Aljian is one of the Firm’s two co-founding partners and serves as its Managing Partner. Reed’s litigation practice covers a broad range of legal matters, including partnership disputes, contract disputes, construction defect, real estate, insurance coverage, trust and estate litigation, and employment claims, including wage and hour, wrongful termination, retaliation, sexual harassment, and sexual assault. Reed has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in individual and class action lawsuits. Reed has successfully tried cases to verdict in federal and state court and to judgment in arbitration. He also serves as general counsel to various companies and high net worth individuals.

Over the course of his career, Reed has volunteered significant time to the community. He has represented numerous pro bono clients in Los Angeles and Orange County, typically representing low-income individuals in real property litigation matters. He is the former chair of Neighbor Legal Services’ Dickran Tevrizian Fellowship Committee and is a former member of two California State Bar Committees, including the Committee for the Delivery of Legal Services (2008-2011) and the Committee on Administration of Justice (2011-2014).

Reed has received numerous honors over the course of his career. In 2005, for his services representing an elderly homeowner, Public Counsel of Los Angeles honored Reed as its Consumer Law Project Volunteer of the Year. In 2008, McDermott Will & Emery honored Reed with its annual award for Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Pro Bono and Service to the Community. Super Lawyer’s magazine has selected Reed as a Super Lawyer every year from 2013 to the present. In 2014 and 2018, based upon peer reviews and evaluations, Super Lawyer’s selected Reed among the Top 50 Lawyers in Orange County.

Reed was born in Santa Monica, California. He obtained his undergraduate degree in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. At Berkeley, he was a four-year letterman and starting catcher on the baseball team and participated in the 1992 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. After graduation, he played professional baseball in the California Angels baseball organization and was a member of the Northwest League Champion Boise Hawks in Boise, Idaho and the Lake Elsinore Storm in Lake Elsinore, California.

Reed obtained his juris doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. During law school, he worked as a law clerk in the Enforcement Division of the Securities & Exchange Commission in its Pacific Regional Office and as a judicial extern for the Honorable Dickran Tevrizian, Jr., United States District Court Judge, Central District of California. Prior to co-founding the Firm, he was a member of the trial department of two large international law firms, including Jones Day in its Los Angeles office and McDermott Will & Emery in its Orange County office.

He is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and all California courts.

In His Own Words

“I’m very competitive by nature. Litigation is just another form of competition and I love it. I cannot imagine doing anything else.”

Honors & Awards

• Top 50 Attorneys in Orange County, Super Lawyers Magazine (2014, 2018)
• State Bar of California's Wiley W. Manuel Certificate of Pro Bono Legal Services (2013)
• Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers Magazine (2012-present)
• Rising Star, Super Lawyers Magazine (2008-2011)
• Outstanding Achievement and Commitment to Pro Bono and Service to the Community, McDermott Will & Emery LLP (2008)
• Consumer Law Project Volunteer of the Year, Public Counsel (2005)

Professional Affiliations & Community Service

• Former Chairman of the Hon. Dickran Tevrizian (ret.) Fellowship Committee, Neighborhood Legal Services of Glendale
• Former Board Member, State Bar of California's Committee on Administration of Justice (2012-2015)
• Former Board Member, State Bar of California's Committee for the Delivery of Legal Services (2009-2011)

Educational Background

• B.A., English Literature, University of California-Berkeley (1995)
• J.D., Loyola Law School-Los Angeles (2000)