Representative Experience

• In legal malpractice arbitration involving alleged damages exceeding $4 million, obtained defense summary judgment on behalf of AmLaw 200 law firm.
  
• Defense of Warnaco, a publicly-traded apparel company, through arbitration hearing, against claims asserted by selling shareholders of Ocean Pacific Apparel Corp. for billions of dollars in "earn-out" compensation under a Stock Purchase Agreement, before case was settled on confidential terms.
  
• In Themis Investors, LLC v. Clark, following arbitration of dispute between LLC co-members, obtained derivative award totaling nearly $1.5 million on behalf of nominal claimant LLC, obtained significant attorneys' fees and costs award on behalf of claimant, and defeated respondent's cross-claims seeking millions of dollars in damages.
  
• In Sakai v. Merrill Lynch Life Insurance Company, Inc., et al., involving "financial elder abuse" and breach of fiduciary duty claims arising from a variable annuity contract, obtained summary adjudication of the core of plaintiff’s case before the matter was settled on confidential terms.
  
• In Havluciyan v. Rapiscan Systems, Inc., involving cross-claims between Rapiscan and its former Turkish distributor, defended Rapiscan against claims for $30 million in damages, obtained a writ of attachment respecting one of Rapiscan’s cross-claims, and obtained entry of an order requiring Havluciyan to post a CCP § 1030 bond, before case was settled on confidential terms.
  
• In Dahlen v. Chicago Title Insurance, Inc., defended Chicago Title against claims for breach of policy and bad faith, before case was settled on confidential terms.
  
• In Whyaduck Productions, Inc. v. Block, following bench trial, obtained judgment, including attorneys’ fees and costs, against Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mitchel Block.
  
• Defense of prominent financial institution in FINRA arbitration involving disputed termination of a Master Repurchase Agreement (essentially, a collateralized loan structured as a sale and repurchase obligation) and the exercise of liquidation rights thereunder.
  

Publications/Speeches

• Editor, Loeb & Loeb’s IP/Entertainment Law Weekly Case Update For Motion Picture Studios and Television Networks (January 2011 - present)
• Moderator, AMEC Panel Discussion on Business/Legal Issues in the Interactive Entertainment Industry, Century City, California (October 19, 2010)
• Author, Showdown in the South China Sea: An International Incidents Analysis of the So-Called Spy Plane Crisis, 16 Emory Int'l Law Rev. 639 (Fall 2002)

Affiliations

• Member, Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Member, Los Angeles Copyright Society
• Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers 
• Former Member, Emerging Leaders Board, The Association of Media & Entertainment Counsel

Distinctions

• Rising Star, Southern California Super Lawyers, Los Angeles magazine (2009-2011)