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Orange, Ca, Us

Newport Beach, California, Us

Newport Beach, California, Us

• Transactional business and employment practice focusing on medium and large California and national employers in the technology, real estate, property management, restaurant, medical, cannabis, and construction industries.• Complex litigation practice focused on complex multi-plaintiff business, large loss general liability, employment, and class-action defense, including extensive discovery, deposition, and law and motion practice.• Obtained multiple successful dismissals of class-action claims, including a full class-action dismissal on demurrer and multiple settlements that resulted in dismissal of all class claims by developing creative extrication strategies and utilizing aggressive motion practice.

Lead attorney on all employment related matters, and responsible for the firm's entire related litigation case load, including all necessary legal research, pleadings, law and motion, discovery, depositions, and trials. Negotiate, draft, review, and interpret business contracts, including lease and property, franchise and license, distribution, employment, releases, severance, service, NDA, and IP/confidentiality contracts. Provide written and oral legal counsel to clients' Executives, Boards, and management on risk assessment, employment practices, regulatory compliance, auditing, contract negotiation and lifecycle management, dispute resolution, and developing creative solutions within legal limitations. * Assisted regional real estate brokerage with expansion, including the development of comprehensive real estate agent, broker, and employee contracts, along with enhancement of employee and contractor policies and procedures.* Litigated favorable outcomes in numerous wage and hour, discrimination, and other employment related lawsuits in front of state and federal courts and administrative agencies.* Negotiated and drafted numerous employment, contractor, service, land and building lease, NDA, and other business related contracts for small, medium, and large domestic and international clients.* Developed and implemented employee policy and procedure manuals for domestic, international, and multi-jurisdictional corporations in the Maritime, logistics, real estate, and restaurant industries.* Defended and obtained favorable settlements in several harassment and PAGA cases brought by top litigation firms in Southern California.* Secured six-figure court judgment on behalf of a local small business involving a fraudulent UCC-1 financing statement maliciously filed by a neighboring business.

Denver, Co, Us

Taught core-subject legal classes, including Business Law, Contracts, Civil Litigation, Torts, Legal Research & Writing, and Law Office Management.

Principle attorney on all legal matters. Provided written and oral legal advice and recommendations on a wide range of litigation, corporate, business, employment, and bankruptcy matters. * Successful defense of multinational corporation in franchise contract dispute.* Successful defense of adversarial challenge to discharge by disgruntled party in individual Chapter 7 bankruptcy dispute--entire adversary challenge dismissed on Debtor's motion.* Secured substantial settlement on the eve of trial from local banking institution in a case involving a bank employee’s fraud and conversion of client’s money.

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Lead Attorney on all bankruptcy, employment litigation, and related matters. Developed and retained new business, bankruptcy and litigation clients.* Victorious 5 day personal injury jury trial in Orange County Superior Court.* Successfully confirmed an arbitration award valued at approximately $600,000 plus applicable interest; client's award confirmed after intense challenge by defendant represented by large multinational firm.* Jointly developed and implemented all law office procedures, including employee policies and procedures, records management, and corporate formalities.

Boa, Sociology

Jd, Law

Ma, Business Administration