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Partner
Noteworthy
Certified Law Clerk, District Attorney’s Office of Los Angeles County (2004); Extern, Hon. Robert W. Alberts, United States Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California (2003). Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Education and Honors
Pepperdine University School of Law (J.D., 2005); Pepperdine University (B.A., Political Science, 2002); Pi Gamma Mu, Pre-Law Honor Society; Delta Gamma Sorority.
Professional Associations
American Bar Association’s White Collar Crime Committee; State Bar of California’s Litigation Section, Criminal Justice Section, Estate Planning; Los Angeles County Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section; Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
Bar Admissions
California (2005); Nevada (2008); United States District Court, Central and Eastern Districts of California.
Sampling of Representative Cases:
Qui Tam Actions:
- Represented plaintiffs in qui tam actions against home health care agencies to pursue claims of Medicare fraud and violations of the Anti-Kickback statutes.
Wrongful Death:
- Represented plaintiffs in wrongful death claim against manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of SCUBA diving equipment for their negligent acts which caused a husband/father’s untimely death.
- Represented surviving child in wrongful death claim against Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority for its employee’s negligent operation of a bus.
Products Liability:
- Represented plaintiffs in products liability action against manufacturer, distributor, and retailer of SCUBA diving equipment for, in part, failing to include safety measures on its equipment that could have remedied foreseeable misuses of the product.
Premises Liability:
- Represented plaintiff who sustained life-threatening personal injuries in premises liability claim against the City of Los Angeles alleging that plaintiff’s injuries were caused by the dangerous condition of a city street.
- Represented plaintiff against City of Los Angeles for dangerous condition of public property claims related to a motorcycle accident that was caused by a large pothole in the street that had gone unrepaired.
- Represented public entity against claims that a defective traffic signal caused a car accident and resulting personal injuries.
- Represented public entity against claims that it maintained a dangerous condition in its park and recreational areas.
- Successfully obtained recovery for tenant of housing community who sustained serious physical and emotional injuries from an assault and battery that occurred on the property.
Medical Malpractice:
- Successfully obtained recovery for plaintiff who sustained personal injuries after medical personnel left part of a medical device in plaintiff after completing a hysterectomy procedure.
- Represented surviving parents of a woman who overdosed on various medications a medical doctor negligently provided to her.
Wrongful Termination:
- Represented plaintiff against non-profit organization who wrongfully terminated plaintiff’s employment after plaintiff resisted complying with the organization’s unlawful practices.
- Successfully obtained recovery for management level employee who was wrongfully terminated from his position with a national corporation.
- Represented police department in connection with claims that an officer had been wrongfully terminated from the force due to his military commitments.
- Successfully obtained recovery for sales level employee who was wrongfully terminated from her position with a national corporation.
Employment Discrimination and Harassment Causes of Action:
- Successfully obtained recovery for plaintiff whose employer had posed illegal questions during the interview process and then, after hiring plaintiff for a management level position, discriminated against him on account of his age and marital status.
- Successfully represented management level employee who had been terminated and discriminated against on account of his race and religion.
- Successfully defended police department against claims that the department had discriminated against an officer on account of his age.
- Represented law firm employee in connection with claims that supervisors discriminated against her on the basis of her race and gender and subjected her to a hostile work environment.
Wrongful Arrest:
- Successfully represented public entity and peace officers accused of wrongfully arresting person who carried a loaded firearm while driving on city streets.
- Successfully represented public entity and peace officers accused of wrongfully arresting person who carried narcotics while driving on city streets.
Retaliation for Complaining About Unlawful Conduct:
- Represented plaintiff whose employer retaliated against him for complaining about illegal and fraudulent Medicare billing practices and who had illegally provided kickbacks to physicians who referred business to his employer.
- Represented plaintiff against employer who retaliated against her and terminated her employment because plaintiff complained about the organization’s unlawful conduct in the United States and overseas.
- Defended police department against claim that department retaliated against officer who complained about alleged unlawful conduct.
Breach of Contract:
- Represented employee for breach of contract claims against employer failed to uphold promises regarding certain employment benefits.
- Represented contractor against business owner who failed to tender payment for work performed to repair building and abate a public nuisance.
- Represented company in breach of contract action against a distributor of the company’s product.
- Successfully represented produce distribution company in defense against breach of contract claims by a foreign produce grower.
- Successfully represented plaintiff in dispute regarding home purchase and lease contracts.
- Successfully represented interior designer for breach of contract claims against development and construction companies for failing to uphold promises regarding certain contractual benefits.
Negligence:
- Represented pregnant plaintiff who sustained personal injuries and prenatal complications after being rear-ended by a negligent truck driver.
- Represented plaintiff who sustained personal injuries when the operator of a recreational boat trip negligently operated the boat causing it to become airborne and crash into
- Represented plaintiff bicyclist who sustained personal injuries when the driver of a motor vehicle negligently exited a freeway and collided with plaintiff who was properly within a crosswalk.
- Represented plaintiff bicyclist who sustained personal injuries when the driver of a motor vehicle negligently drove on a college campus.
- Successfully defended peace officer against negligence claims arising from a low-impact rear-end vehicular collision.
- Represented public entity against claim its park employees negligently caused a person to sustain personal injuries when closing down the park.
Fraud:
- Successfully represented several former and current insurance sales agents against claims that they fraudulently sold insurance policies.
- Represented plaintiffs who had been fraudulently induced to purchase a home through an employer’s home purchase plan.
- Represented plaintiff who sustained substantial property loss in connection with a storage unit he had been fraudulently induced into leasing.
Wage and Hour Class Action:
- Successfully defended corporation against wage and hour claims arising from allegations that the company failed to provide employees with meal breaks, rest periods, overtime pay, and reimbursements.
- Represented plaintiffs in class action wage and hour lawsuit against a national corporation.
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