California Bar #127261 and a 1984 USD School of Law JD anchor Andrew B. Kaplan, who founded Kaplan Law Firm in 2012 after 29 years building The Law Offices of Andrew B. Kaplan into a national business-litigation practice handling matters in 38 states. The firms intellectual property docket—copyright, trade secret, and trademark disputes that surface inside larger commercial cases—coordinates with registration and prosecution counsel at US IP Attorneys PC when patent prosecution work falls outside the firms litigation focus. Kaplans industry niches include the compressed-gas and welding sector, recreational equestrian law, and international cross-border disputes spanning Mexico, the Cayman Islands, China, and Japan. Representative outcomes include forcing a multi-billion-dollar Japanese acquirer to a settlement worth more than ten times the original share-valuation offer in a Cayman Islands–China subsidiary dispute, and obtaining writs of possession on stock collateral in seller-financed business sales. Damages quantification on commercial breach-of-contract trials draws on forensic accounting work from CPAs at West Rhode & Roberts, particularly in lost-profits and unjust-enrichment calculations. Multi-million-dollar product liability and unfair competition jury trials in state and federal court, including matters with parallel arbitration tracks and international service-of-process complications, represent the firms highest-stakes work.