Stephen L. Raucher

Top rated Business Litigation attorney in Los Angeles, California

Reuben Raucher & Blum
Stephen L. Raucher
Reuben Raucher & Blum

Practice areas: Business Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Employment Litigation; view more

Licensed in California since: 1992

Education: University of California Berkeley School of Law

Selected to Super Lawyers: 2009 - 2025 Selected to Rising Stars: 2004 - 2007

Reuben Raucher & Blum

12400 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90025 Visit website

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A highly respected civil litigation attorney, Stephen L. Raucher is a partner at Reuben Raucher & Blum. From the firm's offices in Los Angeles, California, he represents individual and business clients throughout the greater metropolitan area in a variety of cases. With extensive experience assisting both plaintiffs and defendants, Mr. Raucher has handled construction and other real estate disputes; legal and other forms of professional malpractice; breach of fiduciary duty and unfair competition claims; contract breaches; and similar matters. Mr. Raucher also has a strong background in insurance coverage issues, including errors and omissions, general liability and directors and officers policies.

As an undergraduate, Mr. Raucher attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he majored in English and received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude in 1989. He then pursued his legal studies at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. While he was there, Mr. Raucher served as an associate editor of Ecology Law Quarterly, a highly respected environmental law journal. After being awarded his Juris Doctor in 1992, Mr. Raucher was an associate at a leading Los Angeles firm before joining his current firm in October 1994. Admitted to practice before all California state courts, he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Mr. Raucher has long been active in several legal organizations. He is a past president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, and he has served on several of that group's committees and sections. Mr. Raucher has also been a member of the board of trustees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

Practice areas

Business Litigation, Insurance Coverage, Employment Litigation: Defense, Real Estate: Business

Focus areas

Bad Faith Insurance, Insurance

  • 50% Business Litigation
  • 30% Insurance Coverage
  • 10% Employment Litigation: Defense
  • 10% Real Estate: Business

First Admitted: 1992, California

Professional Webpage: https://www.rrbattorneys.com/stephen-l-raucher

Bar/Professional Activity:
  • Past Chair, Litigation Section, Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Chair, Amicus Committee, Beverly Hills Bar Association
  • Past President, Beverly Hills Bar Association, 2010
  • Past President, Beverly Hills Bar Association Barristers
  • Past Member, Board of Trustees, Los Angeles County Bar Association
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Honors/Awards:
  • Super Lawyer, Los Angeles Magazine, 2009 - Present
  • Rising Star
Educational Background:
  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., summa cum laude, 1989
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
  • Summary of significant insurance cases in 2023., Insurance Law chapter of California Litigation Review, Litigation Section of California Lawyers Association, 2024
  • A new case, 24th & Hoffman Investors, LLC v. Northfield Ins. Co., cut off the right to a defense in a case involving both covered and uncovered claims based on the language of a habitability exclusion., Closing a Habitability Exclusion Loophole, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2022
  • In 2009, the Court of Appeal decision in Burlage v. Superior Court opened a "back door" to overturning arbitration rulings. On May 30, 2019, the California Supreme Court decisively closed that door in Heimlich v. Shivji., Heimlich Shut The "Back Door" To Vacating Arbitration Awards, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2019
  • The 1st District Court of Appeal's ruling in Miller Marital Deduction Trust v. Zurich Am. Ins. Co. holds that Cumis counsel disputes with insurance companies are not subject to the anti-SLAPP statute, which will obviate years of delay when Cumis issues arise., Are Cumis Counsel Disputes With Insurers Subject To Anti-SLAPP?, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2019
  • Signs of the Times: Has the Warning Requirement of Proposition 65 Gone Too Far?, 20 Los Angeles Lawyers 44, 1997
  • Businesses can suffer interruption in the wake of natural disasters.  Businessowners should evaluate their insurance coverage to recoup losses., Businesses Suffer When Disaster Strikes, Too, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2018
  • An analysis of the ramifications of the California Supreme Court's ruling in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP v. J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc., Conflict Waiver Enforceability And The Duty Of Loyalty, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2018
  • An analysis of the California Supreme Court's pending decision in Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP v. J-M Manufacturing Co., Inc., State High Court Soon To Decide Conflict Waivers Case, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2018
  • Raising the Stakes for Environmental Polluters: The Exxon Valdez Criminal Prosecution, 219 Ecology L.Q. 147, 1992
  • 2017 Developments In California Insurance Coverage Law, California Litigation Review, 2018
  • Privileges When Law Firms Seek Advice, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2014
  • 2016 Developments In California Insurance Coverage Law, California Litigation Review, 2017
  • 2015 Developments In California Insurance Coverage Law, California Litigation Review, 2016
  • Curb Your Cumis Counsel, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2015
  • State High Court Clears Up Confusion Over Disparagement, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2014
  • 2012-2013 Developments In California Insurance Coverage Law, California Litigation Review, 2014
  • Vacating Arbitration Awards, Now Less Daunting of a Task?, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2009
  • Divergent Rulings Tweak Law on Insurance-Broker Liability, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2005

Office location for Stephen L. Raucher

12400 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90025

Phone: 424-394-0324

Selections

17 Years Super Lawyers
4 Years Rising Stars
  • Super Lawyers: 2009 - 2025
  • Rising Stars: 2004 - 2007

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