ALAN SPARER
Secretary — Board Member, January 2025 - present

For over 30 years, Mr. Sparer has successfully represented individuals and businesses in litigation involving securities, contract, insurance, real estate, probate, and trust matters. Since founding 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 represented financial professionals and hedge funds before the SEC, FINRA, and the California Department of Business Oversight.

Over the years Mr. Sparer has regularly represented trustees, special administrators, and beneficiaries involved in sensitive and often confidential trust disputes and probate matters. In 2008, Mr. Sparer and SLG represented City College of San Francisco in overcoming the final land use and environmental challenges to the construction of a new campus in San Francisco’s Chinatown District.

Mr. Sparer has been honored for his pro bono 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.

Education J.D., Stanford Law School, 1982 Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976 Kellett Fellow, St. Johns College, Oxford University, 1971 B.A., Columbia College of Columbia University, 1969 Employment Sparer Law Group., founded 2003 Howard, Rice Law Firm (now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, San Francisco), Director, 1986-2003. North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, 1975-1979.