Max Alderman

Max Alderman is an associate at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, where he specializes in high-stakes litigation. Max has represented major technology companies, early- and late-stage start-ups, nonprofits, government agencies, and individuals in complex commercial and civil disputes involving copyright infringement, antitrust, breach of-contract, unfair competition, and fraud claims. He has experience drafting and arguing key motions, taking and defending depositions, and has been a member of multiple state and federal trial teams. Max has also devoted a significant amount of his energy to his pro bono practice, which includes securing habeas corpus relief for a wrongfully convicted client in the California Court of Appeal and assisting the California Attorney General’s Office with restricting the sale of ghost guns in California.

Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Max served as a law clerk to the Honorable Salvador Mendoza, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and to the Honorable Jennifer A. Dorsey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada.  He was also an associate at an Am Law top 20 firm. Max earned his J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he was an articles editor on the Stanford Law Review, executive editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, co-president of Stanford’s OutLaw organization, and where he served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Michelle Friedland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Before law school, he studied Philosophy at the University of Warwick, which he attended as a Marshall Scholar, and he received his B.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno.