Edward D. Baker is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Lewis Brisbois and is a member of the General Liability Practice. Prior to joining Lewis Brisbois, Mr. Baker worked as an associate at a small law firm in Los Angeles, where his practice focused on business and commercial litigation in the petroleum industry, as well as chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganizations and asset sales. 

Mr. Baker has experience litigating complex matters in both state and federal courts, and has achieved successful outcomes for his clients in various ADR settings, including mediation and arbitration. Mr. Baker also has significant appellate experience, and has written briefs in the California Court of Appeals, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit where he wrote appellate briefs in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multidistrict litigation. 

Mr. Baker earned his J.D. from Southwestern Law School. While in law school, Mr. Baker was an associate editor and a published author on the Southwestern Law Review, and competed nationally on Southwestern’s Moot Court team. Mr. Baker also spent a summer interning with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri, and interned with the Office of the United States Trustee for Region 16 in Los Angeles in his final year of law school. Mr. Baker also spent a semester as an extern to the Honorable Judge Barry Russell at the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California.

Prior to law school, Mr. Baker received his M.A. in music business from New York University and worked in the music industry in New York City. Mr. Baker attended college at Whittier College in Whittier, California where he studied philosophy and was an NCAA dual-athlete on Whittier’s soccer and golf teams.   

Admissions

• State Bar Admissions
  • California
• United States District Courts
  • United States District Court for the Central District of California
  • United States District Court for the Northern District of California
  • United States District Court for the Southern District of California
• United States Bankruptcy Courts
  • United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California
• United States Courts of Appeals
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Admissions

California

United States District Court for the Central District of California

United States District Court for the Southern District of California

United States District Court for the Northern District of California

United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California

Education

Southwestern Law School

Juris Doctor

New York University

Master of Arts in Music Business

Whittier College

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy