Representative Matters

Aviation
• • Arbitrated breach of contract dispute brought by an aircraft maintenance company against an airplane owner alleging failure to pay for services rendered. Respondent counterclaimed for overpayment and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing.
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for numerous breach of contract actions relating to lease, storage, charter, regulatory compliance and maintenance agreements. 
  • Represented commercial aviation trading companies regarding commercial jet parts, engines and engine part transactions 
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for disputes involving Fraud
  • Represented parties in matter involving breach of aircraft engine lease 
  • Represented parties in claim involving failure to accurately disclose condition of parts
  • Represented parties in matter alleging failure to provide full engine records 
  • Represented parties in matter alleging failure to report usage
Business Commercial
• • Mediated dispute involving claims for violation of Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and violation of CA Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act (CCRAA) 
  • Mediated matter alleging defamation against financial firm regarding purpose and reason for financial professional leaving firm after submitting Form U-5 to FINRA.
  • Mediated claim for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty against a law firm and its shareholders arising out of a stock purchase agreement.
  • Mediated breach of contract claim seeking the return of attorneys fees for failure to perform legal services and withdrawing as counsel immediately prior to trial.
  • Arbitrated dispute involving travel company’s alleged breach of contract in failing to reimburse full payment of fees for cancelled flight and cruise reservations, promissory estoppel, fraud, negligent misrepresentation and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous breach of contract claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous breach of partnership agreement actions
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous misappropriation of trade secrets disputes
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous shareholder/member/owner disputes
  • Represented parties in matters involving receiverships
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous fraud and breach of fiduciary duty matters
  • Represented parties in food manufacturing dispute between co-packer and supplier over exclusive supply agreement
  • Represented parties in food manufacturing dispute between co-packer and supplier over claims of fraud
  • Represented parties in food manufacturing dispute over theft of recipe
  • Represented multiple biomedical device manufacturers and owners in various licensing disputes 
Elder Abuse
• • Mediated dispute with claims against a church and certain members alleging elder physical and financial abuse, conversion of personal and intellectual property, violation of Penal Code 496, battery and negligence 
Employment Law
• • Mediated dispute alleging violation of CA Penal Code, conversion, failure to pay all compensation due to discharge and failure to reimburse business expenses.
  • Arbitrated claim against major volunteer organization for harassment, retaliation, discrimination and wrongful termination.
  • Arbitrated numerous disputes involving wrongful termination, disability discrimination and disparate treatment, failure to engage in the interactive process and implement reasonable accommodations.
  • Arbitrated FEHA claim against restaurant for discrimination, failure to accommodate, retaliation, failure to prevent/remedy discrimination, interference
    with family rights leaves act and wrongful discharge
  • Arbitrated wrongful termination and FEHA claim involving wage & hour claims, discrimination based on race/national origin, failure to engage in interactive process and reasonable accommodations.
  • Arbitrated action against a former management employee to remedy alleged fraud, embezzlement and theft of Claimant's funds and breach of fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty.
  • Arbitrated and mediated single and multi-plaintiff wage and hour matters arising under the California Labor Code, California Wage Orders, and FLSA
  • Arbitrated matter involving whistleblower violations, discrimination, rest and meal break violations and late paycheck violations
  • Represented employers in numerous wrongful termination and discrimination cases
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous breach of employment agreement disputes
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous breach of noncompetition agreement claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous misappropriation of trade secrets claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous violation of wage and hour law matters
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous PAGA claims
Health Care
• • Mediated numerous disputes involving breach of implied-in-fact contract, breach of implied in law contract, failure to provide ERISA benefits and failure to properly handle claims
  • Mediated matter alleging a physicians’ unauthorized use of a doctor’s name and medical license for COVID-19 testing and vaccinations.
  • Arbitrated matter involving claims for failure to reimburse hospitals pursuant to contract rates for healthcare services provided to member-patients and/or patients whose care was Respondent's financial responsibility
  • Arbitrated dispute between medical center and health insurance company for breach of written agreement and Implied Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing by improperly pricing, denying and/or underpaying claims.
  • Arbitrated action to recover amounts arising out of failure to properly reimburse expenses in connection with medical services rendered to members of Respondent’s health care service plan.
  • Represented health insurance companies, third-party administrators, medical billing companies, pharmacy benefit managers and ambulatory surgery centers in matters involving denials of managed care claims and benefits, trade secrets, unfair competition, audits, billing, coding and Medicare reconciliations
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous breach of administrative services agreement matters
  • Represented parties in numerous breach of purchase and sale agreement actions
  • Represented parties in numerous consumer claims actions
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous matters involving commercial claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous payor/provider claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous utilization management disputes
  • Represented parties in numerous breach of noncompete agreement disputes
  • Represented parties in class action claims regarding denial of benefits
  • Represented parties in workers’ compensation lien consolidation cases
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous PAGA cases regarding medical billing fraud
  • Represented parties in pharmacy benefit management cases, including private labeling
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous disputes involving specialty pharmacies
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for  numerous matters involving medical billing and collections
  • Represented parties in disputes involving RICO claims
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for litigation matter involving Medicare billing
  • Represented parties in disputes involving Dialysis billing and collections
  • Represented parties in disputes involving air ambulances
  • Represented parties in and served as Mediator and Arbitrator for numerous disputes involving State regulatory matters
  • Represented parties in disputes involving short-term health care policies
  • Arbitrated appeals matter regarding denials and independent physician reviews 
Real Property
• • Mediated matter involving claims for breach of contract, promissory estoppel, wrongful foreclosure and declaratory relief
  • Mediated landlord tenant dispute involving breach of K, warranty of habitability, quiet enjoyment, nuisance, negligence and violation of LA Municipal Code
  • Represented builders, owners, operators and developers in connection with partnership disputes, financing, entitlements, construction defects, trespass, commercial unlawful detainer cases, tax credit syndicators in low-inco me-housing disputes with developers, and oil and gas companies with respect to drilling rights
  • Represented parties in breach of contract cases for allegedly failing to complete a development
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for numerous matters involving low-income tax credit financing
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for numerous disputes
  • involving title claims
  • Represented parties in numerous commercial lease disputes
  • Represented parties in numerous lease reformation disputes
  • Represented parties in numerous construction defect matters
  • Represented parties in and served as Arbitrator for numerous specific performance cases
  • Represented parties in numerous quiet title cases
  • Represented parties in matters involving fraud in connection with leases and partnership agreements
  • Represented parties in numerous environmental damage claims
  • Represented parties in disputes involving dissolution of partnerships and sale of property
  • Represented parties in numerous receiverships disputes
  • Represented parties in numerous Breach of lease disputes