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Jerry Flanagan is Counsel at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, with nearly 30 years of experience representing insurance consumers in healthcare policy, legislation, and litigation. He previously served as Litigation Director for Consumer Watchdog, where he led class actions resulting in $34.8 million in settlements over unlawful “narrow network” practices and argued before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of HIV-positive plaintiffs against CVS. He is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, where he teaches Health Insurance Regulation: Law, Policy and Politics.

Reid Ehrlich is an associate at Shernoff Bidart Echeverria LLP, where he focuses on law and motion and appellate litigation in insurance bad faith cases. He came to the bar through California’s Law Office Study Program, and by the time he sat for the bar exam, he had already handled briefing in approximately ten appeals. He also contributed to pro bono advocacy that resulted in the exoneration of a wrongfully convicted man through the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Conviction Review Unit.