Alan Hurst

Alan Hurst is a partner in Akerman’s Consumer Financial Services, Data and Technology (CFS+) Practice Group. His practice emphasizes high-volume and high-stakes litigation against aggressive consumer plaintiffs or class action firms, and his matters often involve novel issues with potential business-wide or industry-wide implications. Licensed in Utah and Virginia, he has litigated in more than a dozen states from Massachusetts to Hawaii and achieved results like the following:

• Won certiorari from the Hawaii Supreme Court, reversing an intermediate appellate ruling that prevented loan servicers’ from introducing their predecessors’ records in court—a ruling that would have rendered many Hawaii mortgages effectively unenforceable.
• Won trial- and appellate-court rulings confirming mortgage creditors’ right to preserve homes at risk of property damage.
• Negotiated favorable class-action settlements resolving allegations that mortgage servicers had violated debt collection laws or charged unlawful fees.
• Won reversal of punitive damages award in consumer bankruptcy matter.

Alan also handles financial technology and general commercial litigation including:

• Disputes about intellectual property licensing and trade secrets.
• Loan repurchase claims for breach of contractual warranties.
• Legal malpractice claims.
• Commercial lease disputes.

Alan devotes his pro bono efforts to family law matters and regularly writes on legal topics for the Deseret News.