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title: Alan Van Gelder
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![Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Van-Gelder-Alan_2bc5617c63015739affda6f2cabf1413.jpg)

# 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](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-november/the-actual-injury-provision-and-the-statute-of-limitations "The actual-injury provision and the statute of limitations")

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

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")
[Christian Nickerson](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/christian-nickerson "Christian Nickerson")

[2014 November](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-november)

[![Marijuana use and the civil jury trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Van-Gelder-istock-519436967_90a116e5cee6ff5c2d44f7940ff5badf.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-may/marijuana-use-and-the-civil-jury-trial "Marijuana use and the civil jury trial")

## [Marijuana use and the civil jury trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-may/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

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")

[2015 May](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-may)

## [Pedestrians: Walking the line of dangerous-condition claims](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-march/pedestrians-walking-the-line-of-dangerous-condition-claims "Pedestrians: Walking the line of dangerous-condition claims")

Missing traffic signals, inadequate crosswalks, and improper signage

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")
[Alexis Djivre](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alexis-djivre "Alexis Djivre")

[2017 March](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-march)

## [Distracted drivers: Seeking punitive damages](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-april/distracted-drivers-seeking-punitive-damages "Distracted drivers: Seeking punitive damages")

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

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")

[2017 April](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2017-april)

## [Defense medical exams in brain-injury cases](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2020-december/defense-medical-exams-in-brain-injury-cases "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

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")

[2020 December](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2020-december)

[![Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/van-gelder-istock-1061858632-web_849a52b21b6b9529ebd27c46d7fdc61e.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-may/look-to-the-contract-to-defeat-implied-delegation "Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation")

## [Look to the contract to defeat implied delegation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-may/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

[Alan Van Gelder](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/alan-van-gelder "Alan Van Gelder")

[2023 May](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2023-may)