Alan Van Gelder

Alan Van Gelder

Alan Van Gelder is a partner at the law firm of Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP in Santa Monica, California. He is a graduate of Southwestern University School of Law (2002) and California State University Northridge (1999). Since 2002 Mr. Van Gelder has been representing plaintiffs in cases involving severe personal injury, wrongful death, dangerous conditions, product liability, business litigation, and legal malpractice. 

Articles written by this author:

The actual-injury provision and the statute of limitations

Legal malpractice: Protecting clients from deals that take their time to go bad


Marijuana use and the civil jury trial

Marijuana use and the civil jury trial

The rules you must know before evidence of marijuana use is put before the jury


Pedestrians: Walking the line of dangerous-condition claims

Missing traffic signals, inadequate crosswalks, and improper signage


Distracted drivers: Seeking punitive damages

Combatting the common defenses when you seek punitive damages against the distracted driver


Defense medical exams in brain-injury cases

Use motion practice to stop defense experts from abusing the MMPI2 and other testing in brain-injury cases


Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation

Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation

Do not let [[case]]Privette[[/case]]’s implied delegation shift the cost of defendant’s harm onto plaintiffs and workers’ compensation carriers