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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 00:07:33+00:00

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Mediator, settlement officer, early neutral evaluator and/or arbitrator in over 400 civil cases for the Los Angeles Superior Court and the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Adjunct Professor of Law: Pepperdine Law School and Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution. http://law.pepperdine.edu/straus/.
Attorney General of Hawai’i v. Trustees of the Bishop Estate [removal and surcharge claims against sitting trustees]; Garey v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co. [life insurance coverage-suicide exclusion]; Activision v. Philips Interactive Media [copyright infringement]; Rotbart v. Feliciano and Hollman v. Feliciano [Estate of Larry Hillblom]; In the Matter of Washington Medical Center [construction defects and delay claims].
A Los Angeles firm specializing in complex commercial litigation, business transactions, and the protection and exploitation of intellectual property. Employments have included the successful resolution of litigation by the Hawai’i Attorney General to remove and surcharge trustees of the Estate of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop (the Bishop Estate/Kamehameha Schools litigation) defense of extended arbitration proceedings arising from the death of, and paternity claims against, the estate of Larry Hillblom (the founder of DHL) and the defense of multi-party, multi- jurisdiction class action litigation challenging recruiting and employment practices in the garment industry in the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianna Islands (Saipan).
Specializing in complex commercial litigation and arbitration. Pace Healthcare Management v. ASA (breach of joint venture agreement, trade secrets theft); Richie’s Electronic Supply v. ITC Electronics (antitrust); Extradition of Blaxland (extradition for alleged violation of Australian securities law); Kulperger v. Pacific Innovations (sexual harassment); Kaptein v. Los Angeles County, University of Southern California and Dr. Shaul Massry (sexual harassment, constructive discharge).
A 220 lawyer firm with offices throughout California specializing in a broad range of litigation, including the successful defense and prosecution of several professional negligence cases (HOH v. Lyon & Lyon; Self-Cleaning Environments v. Christie, Parker & Hale; Flores v. Marvin Mitchelson); a precedent-setting toxic tort case (Home Federal Savings Bank v. Rossmoor Corp., et al.); a major antitrust and unfair competition case (Pennsylvania Life Insurance Co. v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co.); and the successful prosecution of several cases involving enforcement of finder’s fee contracts (Kurinij v. Bear Stearns), antitrust and patent/trademark infringement (Phrobis v. Buck Knives), and trade secret misappropriation (Spectra Star v. ERO, Inc.). Commercial litigation engagements also included successful arbitration before the International Chamber of Commerce Court of Arbitration involving allegedly defective ammunition provided to the United Arab Emirates by Swiss munitions broker Heckler & Koch, S.A., and federal litigation involving foreign sales of U.S. defense equipment by General Dynamics and Dr. Shaul Massry (sexual harassment, constructive discharge).
General commercial litigation including entertainment: Lynn Redgrave v. Universal Studios (“Housecalls”); Steenbergen v. MGM (“The Natural”); Saul Zaentz v. Polygram Records (“Amadeus”); Bob Evans (“Cotton Club”, “Two Jacks”); securities (Universal Savings Bank v. Unity); banking (In re Conservatorship of Universal Savings Bank; Baadi v. Imperial Savings Bank); construction defects; regulatory and administrative proceedings (California Energy Commission v. Bonneville Power Administration); and hostile acquisition litigation in the Delaware Court of Chancery (Garrett and Stater Bros. v. Brown). Member – Finley, Kumble litigation committee.
Alaska Department of Environmental Affairs, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Energy Resources Commission, Federal Trade Commission) on behalf of trade associations (American Petroleum Institute, Western Oil & Gas Association, American Hot Dip Galvanizers, Association of Urethane Manufacturers) and individual clients (Ford, Union Oil, Alyeska Pipeline, Mobile, Exxon, Arcata Graphics, Continental Can).
Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating: CV – Peer ranking “at the highest level of professional excellence” for lawyers admitted for 10 years or more.
Pepperdine School of Law, 2008. Recipient of the McKibbon Award for Teaching Excellence.
Lecture member at seminars conducted by the Practicing Law Institute and CEEB continuing education audio-visual programs regarding developments in environmental law.
“Communication and Conflict: Managing Verbal Aggression in Mediation,” www.Mediate.com., April 2003.
Circuit United States Courts of Appeal; the United States District Courts for the Central (1970), Southern (1989) and Northern (1973) Districts of California.
Pro hac vice admissions in the Eastern District of Missouri (1994), the Eastern District of New York (1987), the District of the Northern Marianna Islands (1999), the Delaware Court of Chancery (1986), the Hawaii Family and Probate Courts (1996, 1999), and the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama (2001).
UCLA Graduate School of Management MBA, Executive MBA, and Executive Seminar programs.
Adjunct Professor of Law, Pepperdine Law School, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Seaver College.
Business Law Instructor, University of Phoenix MBA Program (Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business; Legal Issues in the Workplace [Employment and Labor Law], Risk Management.
Guest Lecturer, Hawaii International Dispute Resolution Group (International Commercial Dispute Resolution Lecture).
Guest Lecturer, Berger International Legal Studies Program, Cornell University Law School, 2006, 2007.

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