Overview
Aaron Van Tassel is a civil litigator with a unique international legal background and a wide-ranging practice that spans healthcare defense, professional liability, elder abuse, complex tort litigation, business and contract disputes, product liability, construction defect, and civil rights. His career is distinguished by global legal service, deep experience in law and motion, and a steadfast commitment to public interest, advocacy, and institutional reform.
While completing his Juris Doctor and Master of Laws at Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s satellite campus in Rome, Italy, Aaron began his legal journey abroad, working on anti-corruption and human rights development projects across Europe and Southeast Asia. During this time, he participated in legal fieldwork in France and Cambodia. In Cambodia, he interned at a non-governmental organization where he supported vulnerable populations affected by land expropriation and provided guidance on due process and anti-corruption efforts.
Aaron’s early legal training included authoring legal manuals to support vulnerable populations affected by land expropriation, delivering weekly legal seminars for local practitioners, and helping build a sustainable support model for a human rights program that remains active today. He also delivered a major academic presentation to over 300 Southeast Asian law students and professors on topics including American due process, anti-corruption structures, the land-grabbing crisis, and culturally informed rule-of-law strategies.
In Rome, Aaron interned at a major international developmental law agency, where he contributed to prosecutorial capacity-building initiatives, supported anti-corruption programs in Indonesia and the Philippines, and assisted with regulatory reform in electronic evidence admissibility and judicial training.
Between 2018 and 2024, Aaron lived and worked in Southeast Asia, where his legal career evolved to include roles as a senior legal advisor to in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Upon admission to the California Bar in 2021, he transitioned to in-house counsel to a multinational marketing firm In Bangkok where he advised on contract formation, regulatory compliance, and international risk mitigation. While still in Thailand, he founded and ran a U.S.-based immigration law practice where he united families in the US.
While he was in Thailand and currently at home in Orange County, California, Aaron began focusing on litigation where he spent most of his time on plaintiff-side civil handling matters involving business law, elder abuse, fraud, and unfair competition. As lead law-and-motion counsel, he successfully argued dispositive motions, drafted hundreds of complaints, and secured favorable results in complex, multiparty matters. He later transitioned to healthcare defense, where he represented long-term care providers and institutional defendants in claims involving alleged elder abuse, negligence, and professional liability.
During his free time, Aaron remains an avid surfer who surfs daily and enjoys planning his next surf trips and travel excursions. Aaron is a loving father who cannot wait to teach his son to surf, like Aaron’s dad taught him, when he gets a little older. When he is not thinking of his next destination, Aaron is an ardent reader of psychology and self-improvement books. Aaron remains interested in world events, empowering communities, and maintaining global rule of law.
Credentials
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law (LL.M., 2016)
- Trinity Law School (J.D., 2015)
- University of California, San Diego (B.A., 2010)
Licensed to Practice in
- California
