Norvik Azarian
Norvik Azarian is the Managing Attorney at Tact Law Firm, APC. His practice focuses on assisting individuals with long-term disability and short-term disability ERISA claims, personal injuries, and appellate matters. While advocating for his clients, Norvik draws on his past experiences to provide unique insights to their cases and level the playing field.
Prior to starting Tact Law Firm, Norvik worked at two prestigious defense firms in Los Angeles, where he defended major insurance companies, ERISA benefits administrators, managed care entities, and Fortune 500 corporations. During his time as a defense attorney, Norvik represented many ERISA benefits lawsuits involving claims for long-term disability, short-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life insurance, and health care benefits.
Norvik understands how insurance companies and ERISA claims administrators operate and approach the cases he now advocates for his clients.
Norvik also has years of experience handling complex appellate matters. During law school, Norvik served as a judicial extern to a prominent Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where he assisted the Circuit Judge in evaluating appeals, drafted portions of appellate opinions, and learned how appellate judges consider and decide cases.
In his practice, Norvik has worked on numerous civil appeals. He has represented clients at the California Courts of Appeal, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and has authored a successful opposition to a petition for writ of certiorari at the United States Supreme Court in a complex ERISA case involving a circuit split regarding co-fiduciary liabilities. See Cho v. First Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 852 Fed. Appx. 304 (9th Cir. 2021), cert. denied, 142 S. Ct. 1118 (2022).
- Insurance Claims
- Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Personal Injury
- Animal & Dog Bites, Brain Injury, Car Accidents, Construction Accidents, Motorcycle Accidents, Premises Liability, Truck Accidents, Wrongful Death
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 325315
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- Armenian
- English
- Associate
- Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP
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- Represented prominent insurance companies, real estate agents, brokerages, property managers, and attorneys in professional negligence claims.
- Associate
- Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
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- Defended major insurance companies, ERISA benefits administrators, managed care entities, and Fortune 500 corporations in ERISA benefits lawsuits involving claims for long-term disability, short-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment, life insurance, and health care benefits. Additionally, worked on several appellate matters.
- Certified Law Student
- Loyola Law School Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic
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- Co-authored successful appellate brief on novel issues of the right to bodily privacy under the Fourth Amendment and qualified immunity and argued before the Ninth Circuit. See Ioane v. Hodges, 903 F.3d 929 (9th. Cir. 2018).
- Judicial Extern
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
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- Norvik was selected to serve as a judicial extern to a prominent Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In this capacity, Norvik assisted the Circuit Judge and his law clerks in evaluating civil and criminal appeals involving a broad range of issues and drafted portions of appellate opinions. This experience allowed Norvik to learn how appellate judges consider and assess cases.
- Research Assistant to Professor Aaron Caplan
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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- Norvik assisted Professor Caplan with updating his constitutional law textbook, An Integrated Approach to Constitutional Law.
- Law Clerk
- Hartounian Law Firm
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- Assisted Managing Attorney, Alex Hartounian, with litigating California employment matters, including discrimination claims.
- Law Clerk
- Hartounian Law Firm
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- Assisted Managing Attorney, Alex Hartounian, with litigating California employment matters, including discrimination claims.
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
- J.D. (2018) | Law
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- Graduated in top 15% of class
- Honors: Dean's Honor List
- Activities: Ninth Circuit Appellate Clinic; Armenian Law Students Association
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- University of California - Irvine
- B.A. (2015) | Economics
- Honors: Dean's Honor List
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- State Bar of California # 325315
- Member
- - Current
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