Mr. Halpern is a retired former founding partner of Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP. Prior to forming Halpern May Ybarra Gelberg LLP, Mr. Halpern was a named partner at one of its predecessor firms, Abelson Herron Halpern LLP.
Mr. Halpern’s area of practice was business litigation, with exceptional expertise in insurance coverage disputes. He also counseled businesses on the strategic management of insurance portfolios, to maximize present and future recoveries. While practicing law, Mr. Halpern successfully represented policyholders in numerous coverage and bad faith actions across the United States, at the trial and appellate levels, in arbitration and other ADR proceedings, in insolvency proceedings and for claims under nearly every policy type. He led many high dollar and high profile insurance litigations, and briefed and argued key insurance issues in the Courts of Appeal, Federal Circuit Courts and at the State Supreme Court level. Over the course of his career, Mr. Halpern tallied over a billion dollars in insurance-related recoveries for his clients.