Mert Howard
Mert’s practice covers all aspects of civil litigation and business risk management. He is experienced in legal project management and strategic planning, alternative dispute resolution, trials and appeals. In the product liability area, he handles mass torts and class actions.
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Samir Abdelnour
Samir’s practice focuses on environmental litigation and counseling. He has experience assisting clients with environmental cleanups, seeking land use entitlements and permits, litigating water rights, defending regulatory and administrative enforcement actions, and resolving claims of toxic exposure.
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Neil Bardack
As a litigator, Neil has been lead counsel in a substantial number of court and jury trials, appeals and arbitrations in state and federal courts in the areas of technology, securities, fiduciary fraud, corporate and business disputes, real estate and natural resources involving environmental, water and oil and gas. He has experience in natural resource disputes involving water and oil and gas.
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John Cu
John is an experienced trial lawyer and litigator with significant jury trial experience. He litigates complex business and commercial disputes involving contracts, unfair competition, business torts, trade secrets, products liability, and real estate. Further, John has litigated various kinds of insurance coverage issues, including significant multimillion-dollar environmental, toxic tort, subrogation and contribution disputes.
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Batya Forsyth
Batya’s banking and business litigation practice includes bank customer disputes related to secured and unsecured loan products, deposit accounts and collections and business disputes on behalf of owners, licensors, and service providers related to breach of contract, fiduciary duty and fraud.
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Adam Hofmann
Adam represents both public and private clients in civil writs and appeals, traditional litigation, administrative proceedings, arbitration, and mediation. In addition, he works with clients to help them avoid or resolve conflicts before they become formal, legal disputes.
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Kaylen Kadotani
Kaylen focuses his practice on litigation & dispute resolution. He has experience in nearly all aspects of litigation in both state and federal courts, including preparation of pleadings, written discovery and depositions, motion practice, and trial preparation.
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William Kellermann
A litigator for more than 25 years, Bil helps clients execute sound and defensible identification, preservation, collection, review and production of electronically stored information for use as evidence in litigation and investigations.
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Emily Leahy
Emily focuses her practice on labor and employment law. She represents clients in state and federal court in a variety of labor and employment matters, including: wage and hour disputes, harassment, discrimination, defamation, fraud, and wrongful termination claims.
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Dorothy Liu
With nearly 20 years of experience representing employers in the private and public sectors, Dorothy co-chairs Hanson Bridgett’s Employment Class Action Practice Group and regularly defends complex class actions for clients.
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Josephine Petrick
Josephine focuses on appeals and writs in the state and federal courts. Her practice also includes drafting dispositive motions such as SLAPP, summary judgment, and post-trial motions, and partnering with trial counsel on litigation strategy.
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Nathan Metcalf
Nathan has nearly a decade of experience in environmental law and water law. Nathan advises clients on water rights issues in defending and protesting water rights applications and transfers, including related issues under the California Environmental Quality Act, the California Fish and Game Code and the Endangered Species Act.
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Shannon Nessier
Shannon focuses on representing the firm’s litigation clients. Her work concerns the defense of product manufacturers and suppliers in personal injury litigation, as well as defense in Toxic Tort claims. In addition, she has worked on matters involving warning label litigation and Proposition 65 claims.
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Diane Marie O’Malley
Diane is a senior partner in Hanson’s Labor and Employment Section. Her practice concentrates exclusively on representing employers mainly in the senior living and public transit industries. Diane has expertise in every aspect of the employment relationship and counsels clients on the liabilities that could arise from that relationship.
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Matthew Peck
Matthew focuses his practice on representing clients in a variety of litigation matters. He has extensive experience with all aspects of complex civil litigation in both federal and state courts.
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Michael Van Zandt
Michael has practiced for more than 35 years in the areas of environmental law, natural resources law, adjudication, acquisition, transfer, and defense of water rights, and federal and state administrative law. He represents clients in Takings Claims against the United States, involving water and grazing rights.
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Samantha Wolff
Samantha represents both public and private sector clients in a variety of matters, including putative and certified class actions, through all phases of litigation in federal and state court.
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