Harland C. Frost is an associate attorney at LMM and an integral part of the firm’s corporate law and litigation practice groups. With his deep experience and legal knowledge in these fields, Harland has become a trusted advisor to business owners and design professionals, where he assists clients in building their businesses from the ground up. While at LMM, Harland has drafted and negotiated hundreds of contracts on his clients’ behalf involving transactions and projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Harland understands the unique legal challenges that business owners face and offers expert guidance from contract drafting, review, and negotiations, through project delivery, all the way through claim resolution. As a member of the LMM team, Harland continues to be a driving force in the firm’s unwavering commitment to provide exceptional service and client-oriented results. Harland earned his Juris Doctor (JD) from Santa Clara University School of Law in 2018, focusing his studies in the Corporate Law Specialization within their High Tech Law Certificate Program.
J.D. | Santa Clara Law School
B.A. | University of California Santa Cruz
American Institute of Architects
American Council of Engineering Companies
California
Dismissal of Cross-Complaint against Engineer. Harland represented a structural engineering client sued by the architect on a cross-complaint in a multi-million-dollar dispute related to a public works project in Santa Barbara County. After a multi-state investigation into the architect, LMM determined that the architect had failed to maintain its ability to transact business in California, had been dissolved in the state where it was formed, and thus had no standing to sue LMM’s client. Through novel motion practice, first to dismiss the architect’s cross-claims, then to dismiss the intervening insurer’s claims, LMM secured orders dismissing the case entirely as to their client.
Successful Resolution of Commercial Lease Dispute. Steve and LMM represented a national architecture firm in a dispute against its landlord in a high-rise building in Southern California. The landlord’s failure to maintain the premises caused a business interruption for the firm. After initiating arbitration proceedings on the client’s behalf, Steve successfully resolved the matter with the landlord and shepherded the process through a coverage dispute under the firm’s business interruption policy, allowing the client to recover on multiple fronts to make itself whole.
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