Significant Results and Achievements:

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• During litigation, obtained court order forcing opposing lawyer to turn over his entire client file by arguing the fraud exception to attorney client privilege in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California.  The case soon concluded with a $1.4 million judgment.
   

• In the Central District of California, obtained Federal Bankruptcy Court rulings that: 1) an employer and its successive law offices waived the protections of attorney-client privilege and attorney work product doctrine; 2) the employer and its two lawyers' offices submit every phone and computer to a forensic examination; 3) the employer's representative and lawyer each pay $500 in daily coercive sanctions; and 4) the employer's representative and lawyer were "to appear and show cause why they should not be ordered to submit themselves for [Federal] incarceration."  The defendant employer, who had filed for bankruptcy protection and claimed "no assets," then settled for $4.6 million.

 

• Litigated and recovered significant settlements from the City of Menlo Park, City of Los Angeles, Cal State University, UCLA, and from private individuals for free speech violations.
   

• In excess of $35 million in judgments and settlements obtained on behalf of employees, including $29 million in R.C. v. S.C.E. (Los Angeles Superior Court) on behalf of 1,300 energy employees; $850,000 in Tresky v. Global Integrated Security (U.S. District Court, E.D. Virginia) on behalf of 120 State Department security contractors in Iraq; $400,000 in Yan v. LLP Global, Inc. (Los Angeles Superior Court) on behalf of 107 shipping employees; $100,000 in Qin v. Kwan (Ventura Superior Court) on behalf of a cook; $625,000 in Zheng v. CTour Express LLC (Los Angeles Superior Court) on behalf of 281 tour guides and drivers; $4.6 million in W.D. v. L.S.I. (Los Angeles Superior Court/C.D California Bankruptcy Court) on behalf of 1,390 restaurant workers, after nearly five years of bankruptcy litigation where the restaurant chain claimed it had no assets.

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• Briefed and argued appeal of Anti-SLAPP (C.C.P. § 425.16) ruling before the California Court of Appeals and successfully preserved essential causes of action in the final decision.  J. Kiely Ball, et al. v. Sandee Saurman,  B258634 (2nd District, December 8, 2015)    

      

• Instructor in attorney seminars on advanced commercial collection techniques.
   

• Court-appointed arbitrator and mediator in Ventura and San Mateo Counties.
   

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  Awarded "AV Preeminent" rating by Martindale-Hubbell since 2012, a rating defined as: "a testament to the fact that a lawyer's peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence."
   

​Significant Prior Work Experience:​

 

• Counsel, United States Senate, Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Courts

        Washington, D.C.

 

• Counsel to Senator Mitch McConnell, Impeachment Trial Committee

        Impeachment of United States District Judge Harry E. Claiborne, District of Nevada

        United States Senate, Washington, D.C.

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• Vice President & General Counsel, Pacific Specialty Insurance Company

        Menlo Park, California

 

​​Education:

 

• B.A., Thomas Aquinas College

            Santa Paula, California

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• ​J.D., University of Notre Dame School of Law

            South Bend, Indiana

            Thomas J. White Scholar

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Bar Admissions:
 

• California

• Pennsylvania (inactive)