Oscar Alvarez is a litigation associate in Morrison Foerster’s Los Angeles office and a member of the firm’s Complex Litigation + Advisement Group.

Oscar represents clients in high-stakes business disputes and complex litigation across the country, with a focus on product liability, consumer products, multidistrict litigation, and class actions. He has represented clients ranging from individuals to Fortune 100 companies in industries including cosmetics, energy, technology, food and agriculture, and retail.

Oscar serves on the defense team in one of the nation’s largest multidistrict product liability litigations, where his work spans bellwether and case strategy, complex scientific issues, expert discovery, and legal and evidentiary briefing. His broader commercial litigation experience includes disputes involving consumer protection, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation, copyright and trademark infringement, defamation, and fraud.

Oscar handles matters at every stage of litigation, from case assessment and dispositive motion practice through discovery and trial, including taking depositions and arguing motions. He has led discovery and briefing strategy in complex matters, and courts have adopted his arguments and analytical framework in multiple orders. Before joining Morrison Foerster, he served on the trial team in a multi-week jury trial involving infrastructure and utility issues, where he cross-examined a key damages witness. He is also fluent in Spanish.

Oscar earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law on a full-tuition merit scholarship. While there, he served as chief articles editor of the Journal of Law and Technology and managing editor of the Journal of Environmental Law and Policy, and externed for the Honorable Terry J. Hatter Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Before law school, Oscar worked in corporate finance at one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy companies.