Jeffery Daar has practiced law since 1982 and is a principal of Daar & Newman.  Jeffery takes a holistic approach to clients’ legal and business issues.  His diverse expertise includes strategic planning, complex state and federal litigation, innovative dispute resolution, and international transactions and disputes.  Jeffery assists clients in finding real solutions to problems by implementing both short-term and long-term strategies.  Jeffery’s practice focuses on both litigation and transactional projects.   

Jeffery’s extensive litigation background gives him added insight to structuring transactions for clients along with his entrepreneurial approach to problem solving and dispute resolution.  Jeffery is known for his extensive background in a number of practice areas, including but not limited to class actions, internationally oriented litigation and transactions, insurance including insurance insolvency, products liability, consumer litigation, unfair competition and injunctions, appellate work, private post-secondary schools and colleges, and intellectual property.  Jeffery’s experience includes representing municipalities in the Executive Life Insurance Company insolvency, trying a major securities class action before the Delaware Chancery Court, and practicing before the California Supreme Court and other appellate courts. 

Jeffery is the Chair of the International Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (2007-2008).  He is also the Co-Chair of the 2007 Symposium on International Arbitration and Litigation Strategies.  Jeffery is also the Chair of the Consulegis Intellectual Property, Entertainment Law and Information Technology Specialist Group  (http://www.consulegis.com/html/specialist_groups/ip_group.html), coordinating lawyer specialists in these areas in more than 30 countries since 2002.

Jeffery has close working relationships with lawyers throughout Europe, Latin America and Asia.  This permits him to assemble international legal teams for innovative global solutions to business transactions and disputes.  Jeffery is also a member of the Executive Committee of the International Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and is a member of the International Trade & Investment Committee of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.   

Jeffery is the Chair of the City of Los Angeles Rent Adjustment Commission, which is responsible for adopting policies, rules and regulations pertaining to the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance and is the Appeals Board for the City of Los Angeles Housing Department.  Jeffery has served as a City Commissioner since 2003.  Jeffery served as the Chair of the Democratic Party of the San Fernando Valley from 2001 to 2007.  Jeffery is also a longtime member of the Executive Board of the California Democratic Party and an elected member of the Los Angeles County Democratic Central Committee.  Jeffery has held various leadership positions in other nonprofit organizations.    

His publications include “Obtaining Strategic Injunctions Against Infringers Of U.S. Patents,” the chapter "Licensing and Regulation of Insurance Adjusters" in the Matthew-Bender treatise, California Insurance Law, an international article on the Year 2000 (Y2K) computer problem, and an article "Overview of AIDS and the Insurance Industry" published in the Insurance Advocate.

Practice Areas:

Education:

Admissions:

Civil Litigation, focusing on complex disputes 

Class actions

International Arbitration

Appellate

Business transactions, including cross-border international matters, 

Insurance 

Products liability

Intellectual Property 

J.D., University of California, Davis, 1982

  ·  Member of Law Review and Moot Court Board

  ·  Awarded First Place and First Place Brief in Intellectual Property Moot Court      

     competition by the Intellectual Property Section of the Los Angeles County 

     Bar Association

B.A., Claremont McKenna College, 1979

California Bar (1982)

United States Court of Appeals (9th Circuit)

Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of the  U.S. District Court of  California

State Bar of California 

Los Angeles County Bar Association

Chair, International Law Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association

Chair, Consulegis Intellectual Property, Entertainment Law and 

     Information Technology Specialists Group

Chair, City of  Los Angeles Rent Adjustment Committee

Association of Business Trial Lawyers

Member, Executive Committee of the International Law Section of the Los Angeles 

     County Bar Association

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