Biography

John W. Hurney is an experienced civil litigator who focuses his practice on complex litigation and class actions, including business, insurance and contract disputes, business fraud, serious personal injury, wrongful death and product liability cases.
 
Since 2005, Mr. Hurney has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pepperdine University School of Law Faculty, where he teaches with their Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, the Nation's premier Dispute Resolution Program. He has also served as an arbitrator and a mediator for the Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County court systems.

Mr. Hurney has represented some of America's largest companies, including United Air Lines, Inc., Real Estate Disposition Corporation, Granite Construction Company, McDonald's Corporation, Brother Records, Inc. (the corporate entity for The Beach Boys), AM Best Company, Century Surety Company, Jack in the Box, Inc., Knight Transportation, Foodmaker, Inc., Gold's Gym, Smith Food & Drug Centers, Inc. and LA Fitness International.

He has excelled at both the trial and appellate levels. His appellate decisions include a favorable Appellate ruling for the Beach Boys, Brother Records, Inc. v. Gaba (9th Cir. 2008) 2008 WL 2649640.

Mr. Hurney also co-authored Beware of Opposing Counsel Bearing Gifts, published in the Los Angeles County Bar Association's County Bar Update, March, 2008.
 

• Assisted in favorable Appellate ruling for the Beach Boys, Brother Records, Inc. v. Gaba (9th Cir. 2008) 2008 WL 2649640.
   

• Member of California State Bar since 1992.
   
• Appointment: Adjunct Professor of Law, Pepperdine University School of Law, 2005-present.
   
• Appointment: Arbitrator and Mediator, Los Angeles County and San Bernardino County Courts.
   
• Member: Pepperdine University Alumni Board, 2003-2007.
   
• Honor: Winner of Pepperdine University School of Law's Settlement & Negotiations Competition.
   
• Honor: Winner Representing Pepperdine University School of Law (second place) at the ABA Regional Competition in Denver.
   

• Admitted to practice: California, Arizona, U.S. District Courts for the Central, Northern, Eastern, and Southern Districts of California, and Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.
   
• Admitted to California Supreme Court, 1992.
   
• Admitted to Arizona Supreme Court, 2003.
   
• Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D., 1992; Special Certificate in Dispute Resolution.
   
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, B.A. in Political Science (emphasis on Soviet foreign policy) and Theatre, 1989; Member of Academic Honor Society, Order of Omega; President of Theta Chi.

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