Randall Miller, ’84, has more than 35 years’ experience as a litigator focusing on defending and counseling professionals, corporations, directors, officers, and insurers. A legal malpractice specialist and principal at Miller Law Associates in downtown Los Angeles, he represents attorneys facing State Bar charges and was involved in the John Eastman election interference case.
Miller was recognized for his expertise by the Daily Journal in 2024 when he was named one of the Top 30 Professional Responsibility Lawyers in California.
Miller has extensive litigation and trial experience in state and federal courts in a broad variety of matters. His legal malpractice cases have included matters arising out of intellectual property, patent, bankruptcy, class action, family law, personal injury, products liability, and trusts and estates, and virtually every form of commercial transaction. He has been retained by law firms ranging from sole practitioners to multi-national firms.
Miller represents financial professionals and businesses in matters ranging from suitability and selling away, to churning, breach of fiduciary duty, and conflicts. He has broad appellate experience, with 12 published State and Federal decisions and numerous non-published opinions. He regularly handles private and industry arbitrations, as well as attorney ethics counseling, fee disputes and arbitrations, risk management/loss prevention, insurance coverage and underwriting, and claim monitoring.
Prior to founding Miller Law Associates in 2009, Miller was an equity partner at the national law firm of Sedgwick, Detert, where he was founder and Chair of the Professional Liability Group in its Los Angeles office, and before that, Managing Partner of Long & Levit’s Los Angeles Office.
Miller has been named to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers every year since 2004. In addition, since 2010, Miller has served as the Chair of the California State Bar Committee on Professional Liability Insurance, which oversees the State-Bar sponsored lawyers E&O insurance program, administered by Marsh and underwritten through Arch; he has been a member since 2005. Furthermore, he is one of a handful of lawyers chosen to represent California superior and appellate court judges and justices before the Commission of Judicial Performance, the entity charged with enforcing California’s Code of Judicial Conduct.
Miller earned a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York and the University of California, Davis in 1980 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1984. In 2011, he was certified by the California State Bar as a specialist in Legal Malpractice Law.
Miller remains involved with his alma matter by serving on McGeorge’s Alumni Association Board of Directors.
Throughout 2024, the University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law will celebrate members of its vast alumni network in honor of the school’s 100-year anniversary. This post is part of a series highlighting 100 exceptional McGeorge School of Law alumni.
Stay tuned for more blog posts as we celebrate the law school’s centennial anniversary.