Alan William Sparer
Sparer Law Group
For over 30 years, Mr. Sparer has successfully represented individuals and businesses in litigation involving securities, contract, insurance, real estate, probate, and trust matters. Sparer Law Group (SLG), Mr. Sparer has obtained over $200 million in settlements, judgments, and recoveries on behalf of securities investors. Mr. Sparer also leads an SLG team that has successfully defended financial professionals and investment funds under investigation by the SEC, FINRA, and the California Department of Business Oversight.
SLG regularly helps resolve sensitive and confidential family disputes involving claims of elder abuse or financial misconduct. In the process, Mr. Sparer has successfully represented trustees, special administrators, and beneficiaries in mediation, arbitration and probate court.
SLG is frequently called upon to provide legal representation in one-of-a- kind legal disputes that cross the boundaries of multiple areas of law such as securities regulation, real estate, elder abuse, trust and probate, fraud, or fiduciary duty.
Mr. Sparer has been honored for his public service, which includes impact litigation on behalf of World War II veterans exposed to radiation during America’s atomic weapons testing program, litigation on behalf of resident Vietnamese fishermen seeking the right to own and pilot fishing vessels in California coastal waters, and defense of UC Berkeley students facing expulsion for participating in peaceful anti-apartheid protests.
- Securities Law
- Stockbroker & Investment Fraud
- Elder Law
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Health Care Law
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Trust and Probate Litigation
- Elder Financial Abuse
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Free Consultation
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Contingent Fees
Alternative and contingent fee arrangements offered
- California
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- 9th Circuit
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- 10th Circuit
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- U.S. District Court of Colorado
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- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
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- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
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- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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- English
- Attorney. Principal
- Sparer Law Group
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- Attorney, Director
- Howard Rice Law Firm (now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP)
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- Assistant Professor
- North Carolina State University at Raleigh
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- Stanford University
- J.D.
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- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ph.D.
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- Columbia College of Columbia University
- B.A. (1969)
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- AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated
- Martindale Hubbell
- Northern California Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyers
- 2008-2010, 2014-2018
- Bar Association of San Francisco
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- Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA)
- Member
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- California State Bar # 104921
- Member
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- Change of Venue
- Bonora & Krause: Jurywork: Systematic Techniques
- Batson and the Discriminatory use of Preemptory Challenges
- Bonora & Krause: Jurywork: Systematic Techniques
