High-profile, impactful cases. Tenacity, professionalism, dedication. Former CA Governor & US Senate commended. The firm has widely recognized expertise in handling complex claims that present challenging procedural and legal issues. The firm has served as counsel in matters with proceedings or parties in over two dozen countries. Areas of practice include mass tort, product liability, environment
al law, consumer protection, intellectual property, Internet, technology, business, privacy, and entertainment. The firm has recently been involved in Product Liability, Mass Tort, Consumer Protection & Class Actions including nationwide litigation involving the global recall of thousands of hip implant devices and surgical mesh medical devices. . For more than two decades, the firm has represented individuals pursuing nationwide consumer claims in significant product liability cases, global medical device recalls, pharmaceutical drug recalls, unsafe vehicles, SUV rollovers, Birth Control Device Litigation, diet drugs, diabetes drugs, and several medical device claims. Our firm undertakes complex personal injury litigation involving brain injury, spinal cord injury, and birth defect litigation, typically involving catastrophic personal injury or wrongful death. We have been involved in complex environmental litigation, including claims related to the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, regarded as one of the largest environmental disaster in US history with millions of gallons of oil pouring into the Gulf of Mexico and causing catastrophic damages to Gulf residents and the environment. Lawyers in our firm previously engaged in claims involving pipelines transiting California State Lands and San Francisco Bay tideland areas. Our firm has been involved in technology, E-commerce, Internet, media, and entertainment claims. Our firm has represented individuals, inventors, and businesses in matters and disputes throughout North America and before the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. Our firm has also represented actors, directors, producers, writers, recording artists, production and distribution companies in a wide variety of disputes in the United States, Canada and Europe. Our litigation work has included claims related to E-commerce, trademark, copyright, patent, trade secrets, license rights, entertainment distribution, DVD and movie rights, net profits, privacy, Internet domain disputes, brand infringement and dilution, entertainment and film properties, music libraries and profits, software disputes, Internet security, hacker liability, and other intellectual property or Internet related disputes. Our firm has been engaged in business & financial litigation in a variety of business disputes in the United States and abroad. Our firm has represented domestic and foreign companies in a range of litigation, from a variety of industries including, investment, technology, media, film, music, airlines, beverage manufacturers, real estate companies and developers, textile manufacturers, shipping companies, hotel operators, mining, and others. One of the defining cases concerning international service of process on foreign nationals under the Hague Convention was successfully argued by our firm, reported in Federal Rules Decisions. The case has been cited by the United States Courts of Appeal, the Hawaii Supreme Court, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology (Fall 2003). Our office has pursued compelling constitutional claims on behalf of individuals, groups, and survivors. Our firm has prosecuted individual and class action claims before the United States trial and appellate courts,involving claims brought under the United States Constitution and various civil rights acts for underenforcement of domestic violence laws, racial profiling, and failure to provide adequate and necessary medical care in detention centers. Certain matters undertaken by our firm have involved complex domestic or international proceedings and/or involved millions of individuals. Certain matters have been best suited for class action or coordinated prosecution, including the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Toyota Recall Litigation, pharmaceutical liability, medical device litigation, asbestos litigation, automotive recalls, technology and Internet litigation, electronic banking, financial or investment matters with parties or proceedings in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington, Wisconsin, Washington, and Washington D.C., Canada, Mexico, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand, The Philippines, England, Ireland, Egypt, India, Pakistan, Portugal, Italy, France, French Polynesia, Kiribati (Not admitted in all jurisdictions).
