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Principal Gopi K. Panchapakesan will be a featured panelist in the upcoming webinar presentation, “Recent Trends in Class Action Practice: Perspectives from Both Sides of the V,” hosted by the South Asian Bar Association of North America and the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California (SABA-SC). Gopi, who currently ...
Senior Counsel Judge A. Howard Matz (Ret.) will be a featured panelist at the upcoming webinar, “Southern California Webinar on Best Practices for Video Mediation,” hosted by Federal Arbitration (FedArb). Matz will join fellow ADR leaders to discuss best practices and insights for conducting successful video conference mediations. The webinar ...
Principal Naeun Rim has been named to the Daily Journal’s 2020 Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers list. The honor recognizes 40 attorneys in California under the age of 40 whose work is impacting the industry, society, or the law in a meaningful way. Rim’s profile highlights her pro bono efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic such as her work ...
Principal Ekwan Rhow and associate Kate Shin are featured in the Daily Journal for their successful motion practice in the Los Angeles Superior Court in a dispute against a Delaware corporation, a high-profile network security company. Bird Marella’s client, William West, is a California resident who co-founded the defendant company and served ...
Principals Mark Drooks and Sharon Ben-Shahar Mayer authored an article for the California Lawyers Association titled, “Showing Lack of Probable Cause: Plaintiff’s Burden of Proof in Opposing an Anti-SLAPP Motion Attacking a Malicious Prosecution Claim.” Drooks and Mayer explain the complex issues that arise in allocating the burden of proof when ...
Principals Mark Drooks and Sharon Ben-Shahar Mayer successfully quashed service on a national law firm in a case alleging aiding and abetting of securities fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and professional negligence in connection with a purported billion-dollar Ponzi scheme. The plaintiff was a trustee of a trust created through ...
Bird Marella is proud to announce that Steven E. Zipperstein has joined the firm as senior counsel. Mr. Zipperstein has over 35 years of legal experience providing strategic advice and counseling to corporations and businesses on a broad range of civil, regulatory, government and congressional investigations, and other non-litigation, business-related ...
Bird Marella and co-counsel the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) partnered with the Prison Law Office (PLO) to achieve victories in two class action lawsuits filed against Terminal Island and Lompoc federal prisons over the inefficient measures taken by prison officials to prevent the spread of COVID-19. In the Lompoc class action, the Court issued a preliminary injunction and ordered the Bureau of ...
Bird Marella achieved a complete defense decision on behalf of its long-standing client, JM Eagle, in a high-profile federal False Claims Act lawsuit involving 45 intervening government plaintiffs and over $1 billion in claims. JM Eagle is the world’s largest manufacturer of PVC pipe. This victory follows the successful defense ...
Principal Gary Lincenberg was quoted in Vanity Fair and The Daily Mail regarding the ongoing civil lawsuit against real estate developer Mohamed Hadid. Lincenberg, Ariel Neuman, Shoshana Bannett, and Jimmy Threatt are representing the neighbors of Hadid who are suing the developer over his illegally constructed Bel-Air mansion, which poses significant public danger to ...
