Biography

Mr. Shuman has spent his entire legal career with Engstrom, Lipscomb & Lack. He is a seasoned litigator and trial attorney. He is admitted to the California Bar, the United States District Courts for the Central, Southern, Northern, and Eastern Districts of California, and the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. He is rated “AV” (Preeminent) by Martindale-Hubbell, the largest peer rated organization, which means his peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence.

Since the late 1990’s, Mr. Shuman’s practice has focused on business and insurance litigation matters for individuals, businesses, and groups of people victimized by breaches of contract, fraudulent and negligent misrepresentation, negligence, interference, professional negligence, and breaches of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in both the insurance and commercial context, and other business torts. Notable successes include participation in trials resulting in recoveries of $32 million in a case where his clients were wrongfully deprived of their share of a business and $10.2 million in a lender liability case by an individual against one of the country’s largest banks. He also was lead counsel in a class action against a life insurer that resulted in a settlement valued at more than $19 million, co-handled a construction claim that settled for $12 million, and recovered $5 million in the civil case arising out of the death of famed American Top 40 disc jockey Casey Kasem. He is responsible for multiple other recoveries of a million dollars or more. He has represented numerous clients on life insurance matters over the last 15 years, including many fraudulently induced into buying premium-financed life insurance, in addition to the many general business litigation matters he has handled. In the earlier stages of his career, Mr. Shuman practiced in the fields of insurance coverage, insurance defense and general business matters. During the 1990’s he was one of three attorneys in Southern California with expertise in jewelry insurance.

Mr. Shuman received his J.D. in 1978 from UCLA Law School, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside, graduating in three years with highest honors. He is a member of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles. He is a past President of the UC Riverside Alumni Association Board of Directors, on which he served for 18 years, and has also chaired its Alumni Engagement Committee and served on its Executive Committee. He also for many years chaired the UCR Alumni Scholarship Committee covering northern Los Angeles County, which annually awards an alumni scholarship to an incoming student. Mr. Shuman has published on the subject of enforcing foreign judgments. Mr. Shuman is happily married to his wife of 46 years, and they have three adult children.

Education

• UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 1978, J.D.
  – Member, UCLA Law Review
• University of California, Riverside, CA, 1975, B.A. with highest honors, Major in Political Science

Bar Admissions

• California, 1978
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

Litigation Percentage

100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Professional Associations

• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, Member
• Consumer Attorneys of California, Member

Notable Past Positions

• UC Riverside Alumni Association Board of Directors
• UCR Alumni Scholarship Committee

Honors and Awards

• Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated