Representative Matters

Business Commercial
• • Extensive experience resolving many types of business-related disputes, including breach of contract, collection, unfair business practice, and fraud matters
  • Resolved numerous business and commercial matters with extensive accounting issues 
Class Action & Mass Tort
• • As trial judge, mediated nationwide settlement involving approximately 400,000 policyholders and insurance company for using non-OEM parts in repairing automobiles after accidents
  • Experience mediating wage and hour class actions 
Construction Defect
• • Settled numerous matters between contractors, subcontractors, developers, and purchasers involving many different construction defects including roofing defects, plastering defects, soil substance issues, grading, and mold in single-family and condo projects
  • Successfully mediated construction defect disputes involving contractors and multi-subcontractors on custom private homes
  • Mediated construction defect cases involving many individual homes in numerous different housing tracts 
Employment Law
• • Mediated labor case involving 14,000 employees, resulting in multi-million-dollar settlement
  • Resolved disputes involving claims for wage and hour issues, pension benefits, exempt versus non-exempt status, and discrimination based on age, gender, and race
  • Wrongful termination claim by loan officers in mortgage company alleging they were fired in retaliation for voicing complaints against manager, with company claiming “loan swapping” as reason for termination 
Family Law
• • Settled divorce case involving multiple corporations, partnerships, and other assets valued in excess of $200 million 
  • Landmark ruling in marital dissolution proceeding where Cannon concluded that document signed by husband and bride's father was marriage certificate and not prenuptial agreement. Husband sought to introduce document written in foreign language that transferred couple's property to him, claiming it constituted prenuptial agreement
  • Mediated several disputes involving visitation, custody, and determination of disposable income to determine child and spousal support
  • Supervised Orange County Superior Court Family Law panel for four years 
Intellectual Property
• • Presided over matter involving reverse engineering and shrink-wrap technology
Real Property
• • Real estate dispute involving a destination brokerage and non-disclosure issues
  • Real estate matter involving issues of alleged negligence and fraud
  • Dispute between homeowners association and homeowner arising from alleged short-term renting of unit by homeowner, in violation of association's governing documents