He has first- or second-chaired over a dozen trials or binding arbitrations to conclusion, including jury and bench trials in California federal and state courts, and arbitration hearings before AAA, JAMS and FINRA. He has taken or defended over 100 depositions, successfully briefed and argued nearly 100 motions, and handled several winning appeals from inception to decision in the Ninth Circuit and the California Court of Appeal. About half his practice is devoted to business trials and appeals, primarily in the context of commercial, real estate/real property, land use, bankruptcy, financial services and employment disputes. The other half is devoted to class action defense. He has defended class actions involving antitrust, RICO, ADA/Unruh, UCL (Bus. & Prof. Code § 17200), usury, FDCPA and business fraud claims.