Professional Experience
- The Burke Law Firm
- Kinsella Boesch Fujikawa & Towle (prestigious boutique litigation firm)
- Morrison & Foerster (top 10 international law firm)
- United States Courts (judicial clerkships), Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and US District Court (CD Cal)
- RAND Corporation (research analyst at nationally known think tank)
- AV-rated (top 10 percent of lawyers nationwide)
Educational Background
- UCLA School of Law
- UCLA Law Review (prestigious journal of scholarly legal articles)
- Roscoe Pound Moot Court Honors Society (oral argument competition)
- Research Assistant (Professor Steven Shiffrin, co-author of leading Constitutional Law treatise and textbook)
- Teaching Assistant, Legal Writing and Research
- Greenberg Scholar
- Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management (business strategy and management)
- University of Illinois (cognitive science, political science)
Relevant Litigation Experience
- Tried numerous cases for State Farm Insurance in the nation's largest employment discrimination class action
- On defense team representing Northrop Grumman in contract dispute with the Royal Canadian Air Force
- Oversaw nationwide litigation involving Girls Gone Wild
- Successfully resolved numerous class actions
- Extensive experience litigating partnership and shareholder disputes
- Represented an international cosmetics company and a freight forwarder in antitrust price-fixing actions
- Negotiated white collar criminal plea agreements with the US Department of Justice and with numerous State Attorneys General
- Handled law firm dissolutions for premier Los Angeles law firms
- Obtained substantial judgment for a well-known child actor in a suit against his parents and business manager for mismanagement of assets
- Successfully represented bondholders in Charles Keating/Lincoln Savings & Loan securities fraud cases through federal appeals
- Represent commercial art dealers in greymarket copyright disputes
- Prevailed in constitutional law cases challenging retroactive tax law changes, and imposing constitutional limits on punitive damages
- Represent broad range of industry clients in wrongful termination, unfair competition and commercial litigation matters
- Represent media broadcasters and corporate entities in free speech, court access and defamation cases
Business Matters
- Negotiate supply chain, vendor and distribution agreements
- Negotiate business acquisitions and divestitures
- Conduct due diligence for corporate acquisitions and private equity investments
- Negotiate commercial equipment and real property lease agreements
- Represented equity partners in large marina resort development
- Represented large national hotel operator in real estate acquisitions
- Worked with World Bank to finance hotel construction and housing for NGO's in Haiti following its devastating earthquake
- Negotiate technology transfer licenses with Sandia National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Represented solar power company in acquiring utility-level solar power projects
- Advise medical professionals and outpatient surgical centers (and represented plastic surgeons on ABC's "Extreme Makeover")
- Represent entertainment production companies in corporate and content acquisition matters
General Counsel Experience
- General Counsel for companies in food manufacturing, media and entertainment, health and beauty products, and real estate development
- Outside general counsel for entertainment content producers, defense industry technology licensing, alternative energy production, education enterprises, and biotechnology