We’re a California litigation boutique of two partners and a small team. We take cases we can win—against defendants with far more resources than we have—and we handle them personally.
We represent California consumers, tenants, and employees in class and representative actions—tenant security-deposit cases, junk-fee claims, and data breach. Our partners have recovered more than $55 million in total relief for over 300,000 Californians, including a proposed settlement of $27.95 million, the largest tenant security-deposit recovery in California history.
Read moreWe represent founders and investors who are defrauded or forced out of their companies, including minority shareholder oppression, freeze-outs, hostile takeovers, earnout disputes, and post-closing disputes.
Read moreWe negotiate and litigate executive employment disputes, including fraudulent inducement, whistleblower retaliation, breach of compensation agreements, and trade secret defense. We also represent entrepreneurs and executives in employment and equity negotiations.
Read moreWe’re highly selective. We take matters we believe in for clients we believe in. The partner who takes your case is the partner who works your case: reviews the pleadings, takes the key depositions, argues the motions. If the case goes to trial, the same partner tries it. Our teams are two to four people and all clients have direct access to the partner in charge.
We built the firm this way because it’s the only way to do work we’re proud of, on cases where the outcome matters.
Lead counsel for a certified class of approximately 33,000 California renters against one of Southern California’s largest landlords, owned by a multi-billionaire. Class certified over opposition from more than 20 defendants. Settlement represented roughly 135% of class damages.
Class action against a publicly traded apartment REIT for systematic unlawful deductions from tenant security deposits across its California properties. Resolved for $27.95 million in total relief for more than 200,000 California renters, the largest security-deposit class action recovery in California history. Proposed settlement pending court approval.
Obtained dismissal of extortion claims against an attorney, including by securing exclusion of an illegal surreptitious recording. The published opinion has been cited in Witkin, the Rutter Group Practice Guides, and California Jurisprudence.
Additional eight-figure settlements are confidential.
If your matter requires sophisticated plaintiff’s counsel, we’d like to hear about it.