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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 continues to practice
in the areas of workers' compensation, 132a and subrogation,
and offers her decade of civil litigation experience
to contribute to the firm's growing civil defense practice.
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