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Steve represents plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of civil and appellate litigation, including commercial, insurance, administrative, real property, employment, and products liability matters.
From 2000 to 2003, Steve was a judicial attorney for Associate Justice Daniel M. Kolkey of the Third District Court of Appeal. He worked on complex matters involving a broad range of subjects, including cases that resulted in published decisions on foreclosure, public contracts, security and guaranty agreements, implied easements, state corporate taxation, employment discrimination, family leave, dangerous condition of business property, and trespass by e-mail, as well as criminal matters. Prior to 2000, Steve worked for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in Sacramento and San Francisco and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom in Boston, where he represented defendants in diverse matters, including securities, accounting malpractice, products liability, partnership, wrongful termination, executive compensation, and disability discrimination cases.
Representative Matters - Represented Sony in an action for long-term compensation by an executive who left to work for a competitor. Judgment for Sony on a motion to dismiss upheld on appeal
- Represented cellular telephone companies against claims under Business and Professions Code §§ 17200 and 17500. Trial court granted motion to dismiss ruling that plaintiff’s claims were preempted by federal law
- Represented bank in over 40 actions involving foreclosure of rental property, including appointment of receivers pending trustee’s sale of the property.
- Defended Southern California Edison in the Big Creek forest fire litigation and authored article published in The Federal Lawyer (August 2009) critiquing novel environmental damages theories debuted by the federal government in the Big Creek case.
- Obtained injunctive relief for technology company against ex-employee involved in large-scale theft of equipment to sell on the internet and defeated defendant’s motion for stay pending resolution of parallel criminal case.
- Represented Indian tribe in challenge to decision to remove individuals from tribal membership roll.
- Defended developer in suit by Indian tribe for breach of fiduciary duty.
- Represented technology company in Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower trial before administrative law judge that resulted in dismissal of all claims.
- Defended French helicopter engine manufacturer in action involving death of two county sheriff’s deputies and serious injuries to third deputy.
- Represented defendant general partner of hotel chain in class action that was dismissed when trial court ruled that California was not a convenient forum.
Education Boalt Hall School of Law, U.C. Berkeley, J.D., 1991
- Best Brief, McBaine Moot Court Competition
Yale College, B.A., 1974, English
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