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Ms.
Adrian received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications,
Legal Institutions, Economics and Government from The
American University in Washington, DC in 1994, and her
Juris Doctor from Pepperdine University School of Law
in 1997. She is admitted to practice in California and
Maryland. She is also admitted to the US District Courts
for the Central District of California, the District
of Maryland, and the United States Supreme Court.
While
in law school, Ms. Adrian worked as a research assistant
to several law professors, and was published in a Real
Property textbook. She also clerked for the United States
Attorney's office in Las Vegas, Nevada, as well as a
bankruptcy firm in Pacific Palisades, California. During
her final semester of law school, she worked full time
for the Honorable Rudi Brewster, Judge for the United
States District Court, Southern District of California.
Ms.
Adrian started her law career as in-house defense counsel
for a major California insurance company in their San
Diego office, gaining invaluable litigation experience,
including several jury trials. She then relocated to
the Baltimore-Washington, DC area where she continued
in the field of liability defense, including auto, premises
liability, toxic torts, medical malpractice and elevator/escalator
liability with a Washington, DC based law firm, practicing
in both Maryland and the District of Columbia. Thereafter,
Ms. Adrian's practice has specialized in defending workers'
compensation and Labor Code section 132a discrimination
claims, as well as prosecuting subrogation claims, while
continuing to maintain her civil defense practice. During
the development of her workers' compensation practice
from 2003 through 2008, she served as faculty on an
annual basis for Lorman Educational Services' Workers'
Compensation Update programs in San Diego and Orange
Counties. She was also a contributing author for the
monthly journal, Workers' Comp Alert.
At
EPS, Ms. Adrian works in the firm's Los Angeles office,
practicing in the areas of workers' compensation defense,
LHWCA defense, and workers' compensation subrogation.
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