Michael Alper focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation with particular emphasis on insurance disputes and consumer class actions.  He has represented clients in connection with a broad range of insurance and consumer matters including:

• Represented an insurance company in a putative class action lawsuit seeking reformation of all of the client's Colorado automobile insurance policies to provide unlimited lifetime medical and wage-loss payments to all insureds who ever made a claim for no-fault benefits.  After defeating the plaintiffs' attempt to certify a class, the WTO legal team settled the remaining individual claims very favorably.
• Represented insurance companies in numerous lawsuits alleging bad faith breach of the insurance contract, including cases involving catastrophic injuries.
• Represented reinsureds and reinsurers in reinsurance disputes.
• Represented commercial landlords and tenants in lease disputes, including the prosecution of actions to terminate leases and the defense of a lawsuit for alleged damage to a large industrial recycling facility.
• Defended consumer lawsuits under California Business and Professions Code § 17200, including cases involving allegations that a title insurance company allegedly retained "secret interest" on escrow deposits, failed to escheat unclaimed property to the state, and charged customers for services it did not perform or which cost far less than the amount charged.
• Represented a major oil and gas company in a wrongful death lawsuit arising from an accident occurring on an oil rig owned by the company.
• Represents clients in appellate matters in both state and federal courts of appeals.