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Los Angeles, CA 90071
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Houman Ehsan

Counsel


Houman Ehsan is a counsel in O'Melveny's Los Angeles office and a member of the Class Actions, Mass Torts and Insurance Litigation Practice.  As a medical doctor and a lawyer with an MBA, his practice is focused on healthcare litigation defense, providing unique analysis of legal and factual issues involving technical medical or scientific components inherent in healthcare litigation.

Illustrative Professional Experience

  • Analyzing medical literature and patient charts in providing risk analysis for a healthcare client.
  • Analyzing coding and billing practices of physicians and providing critical analysis of expert witnesses on CPT coding.
  • Investigating facts and developing analysis to defend a medical device company client against multiple tort claims including claims asserted under California's Unfair Competition Law.
  • Analyzing and identifying factual basis to defeat RICO claims asserted against a healthcare client.

Professional Activities

Co-Author,  “Attributable Risk And Specific Causation,” Law360 (November 2008)
Language,  Farsi (fluent)

University of Southern California Law School,  J.D.:  Order of the Coif

University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business,  M.B.A.:  Beta Gamma Sigma

University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals,  post-graduate training in Internal Medicine

University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine,  M.D.

University of California, Berkeley,  B.A., Molecular and Cell Biology/Neurobiology:  Phi Beta Kappa


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