Biography
In 2024, Elliot was named to the Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts list twice: once for a $12.5 million plaintiff’s judgment after trial in a breach of contract action, and once for a complete defense verdict in a $5 million defamation case.
Elliot’s practice covers commercial disputes, investor claims in FINRA arbitration, and employment matters. His clients have included a multinational health care provider, a global absence management administrator, a credit union, a new media production company, a digital venture capital marketplace, a blockchain performance engineering company, other attorneys, and individual investors. He prepares every matter as if it is going to trial.
Elliot graduated from the UCLA School of Law. Before law school, he earned his bachelor’s degree in political science, cum laude, from UNLV. During law school he clerked for the Complex Litigation Section of the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office and the Enforcement Department of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). He served as co-chair of UCLA’s Public Interest Law Fund. After graduation he was selected for the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Los Angeles Chapter fellowship, working with ABOTA trial attorneys and for a Superior Court judge.
Early in his career, Elliot served low-income clients through Los Angeles legal aid organizations. As a staff attorney at the Eviction Defense Network, he represented tenants facing eviction. As a volunteer attorney with Bet Tzedek Legal Services’ Employment Rights Project, he represented workers bringing wage claims.
Elliot is Treasurer of the Financial Planning Association of Los Angeles and served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the PIABA Bar Journal, the Public Investors Advocate Bar Association’s peer-reviewed publication on securities arbitration. He grew up in Las Vegas and speaks fluent Spanish.