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Sean Hogle

415-287-3207

Antitrust, Business Law, Communications Law, Employment Law, Intellectual Property More >>

Lerman Law Building, 802 B Street
San Rafael, CA 94901

Nolo - Listed in the Nolo Lawyer Directory

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Education: Marshall-Wythe School of Law - College of William and Mary

Jurisdictions: Virginia - Admitted in 1993 (16 years), Colorado - Admitted in 1995 (14 years), California - Admitted in 2006 (3 years)

Sean's law practice is focused primarily on technology ventures, such as software, wireless telecommunications, and Internet-related companies, as well as firms in the visual effects, concept art and emerging media space. Sean's fifteen years of diverse legal experience make him well-suited to act as a "virtual general counsel" to his venture clients, guiding such enterprises through the complex legal and regulatory environment of the United States and abroad--and in all stages of growth, from founding to IPO.

Having closed countless complex technology transactions with numerous Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Sean has become the consummate deal lawyer, bringing to the table an ability to negotiate business-critical deals with efficiency and skill. During extensive international assignments in Tokyo and Munich, Sean earned invaluable experience in overseas entity formation, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances and international licensing. Because of his experience in managing US and European operations for a global software company, Sean is uniquely qualified to understand the practical challenges of running a business.

Sean began his legal career with a large law firm in Denver, Colorado, where he represented numerous high technology enterprises in mergers and acquisitions, business planning, technology licensing, and intellectual property management, counseling and enforcement. Sean additionally enjoyed an extensive state and federal litigation and arbitration practice.

Eventually, Sean moved in-house with Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he ultimately became Assistant General Counsel. In this role, Sean was responsible for software and technology licensing and alliances for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, as an expatriate in Tokyo.

In 2001, Sean joined the wireless and consumer software venture Aplix Corporation, also based in Tokyo, as General Counsel and Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs. Sean facilitated the company's international growth and eventual IPO on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2003. In addition to his General Counsel role, Sean managed, as President and Chief Operating Officer, the company's United States and European subsidiaries in San Francisco and Munich, from 2004 to 2006.

Sean is based in the firm's San Rafael, California office, in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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H. Tim Hoffman

Hoffman& Lazear

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Antitrust, Civil Rights, Consumer Law, Elder Law, Employment Law

180 Grand Ave, Ste. 1550
Oakland, CA 94612

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Education: Univ of Illinois COL

Jurisdictions: California - Admitted in 1971 (38 years)

Tim Hoffman is a pioneering California attorney with a storied, 45-year legal career, during which he has helped recover more than $1 billion for his worthy clients. Mr. Hoffman has successfully tried dozens of matters to verdict, specializing in complex civil cases, and has litigated over 200 arbitrations. He has practiced in Oakland, CA, since 1971, and was most recently selected for inclusion in 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers.

Since the mid-1990's, Mr. Hoffman has been a leader among plaintiffs' employment lawyers, scoring huge victories for classes of thousands of employees at Pacific Bell (who recovered $36 million), Macy's, Starbucks, and many other Fortune 500 companies. In overtime class actions, Mr. Hoffman has represented misclassified assistant managers, stockbrokers, truck drivers, and reservation clerks, among many other categories of employees. Among employees forced to work off-the-clock, Mr. Hoffman has represented classes of handymen, janitors, bike and driver messengers, and others. Mr. Hoffman has represented victims of sexual harassment and numerous other forms of discrimination.

Mr. Hoffman has also specialized in consumer protection cases, including, for example, class actions against credit card companies, and a current case against termite-protection providers Orkin and Terminex, who misrepresent the nature of their services and provide false guarantees to customers.

Other current cases on which Mr. Hoffman is working include: Mevorah v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, regarding misclassified loan officers denied overtime; Chu v. Wells Fargo, regarding misclassified stockbrokers denied overtime; and Contreras v. Bank of America, regarding misclassified personal bankers denied overtime.

Mr. Hoffman's best known cases, the Continental Can class actions, alone recovered nearly half a billion dollars from the company after a four-month trial. The company had been discriminating against employees based upon their pension benefits, a practice prohibited under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). In that case, the company was shutting down plants based upon how many employees in each location would soon vest their full pensions, laying off wholesale any employees whose benefits were about to vest.

Among Mr. Hoffman's favorite career moments were: having lunch with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama when Mr. Hoffman was a member of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council; defending famed 60's radical Abbie Hoffman in a free speech case; preceding current President Barack Obama as a Chicago community organizer and attorney in Chicago Legal Aid; introducing Cesar Chavez at a banquet for the National Hispanic University, where Mr. Hoffman served as General Counsel and a founding member of the Board of Trustees; successfully settling his own whistleblower retaliation case, after he (as a then-Presidential appointee) reported a federal government manager's improprieties; serving as President of his American Federation of Government Employees Union Local, and a member of the San Francisco Labor Council, and representing the Communication Workers of America Local for the last 38 years; volunteering on the Board of Visitors to College of Arts & Sciences at Howard University; and, playing craps with Thurgood Marshall in Puerto Rico.

Mr. Hoffman is a native of Chicago, IL, an alumnus of the University of Illinois (in Champagne, IL), a former President of Oakland's Beth Jacob Congregation, and former Board member of the Anti-Defamation League.

He has been practicing law with Arthur Lazear for more than 30 years, is married, and has four children.

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Matt Kumin

Kumin, Sommers LLP

415-434-4500

Antitrust, Bankruptcy / Debt, Business Law, Entertainment / Sports, Insurance Bad Faith More >>

870 Market Street, Suite 1142
San Francisco, CA 94102

Amie Denise Miller

415-362-8602

Antitrust, Immigration Law

369 Pine St
San Francisco, CA 94104

Ms. Micha Star Liberty

Liberty Law Office

415-896-1000

Antitrust, Car Accidents, Civil Rights, Employment Law, General Civil More >>

1438 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

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Education: UC Hastings COL

Jurisdictions: California - Admitted in 2001 (8 years)

MICHA STAR LIBERTY is a civil rights attorney specializing in litigating serious injury, civil rights, sexual abuse, consumer, and employment matters in both individual and class actions. She is a certified mediator with over 40 hours of training who performs mediation for the Contra Costa Superior Court.

A frequent lecturer and widely published author, Ms. Liberty focuses much of her public speaking on trial practice, discovery techniques, the importance of mentoring, and the best practices for opening a law office and law office management. Additionally, she speaks on the topic of women in politics.

Ms. Liberty is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. Born in San Francisco, California, Ms. Liberty is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Northern, Eastern, Central and Southern Districts of California. She is also admitted to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Liberty has worked at the White House and for two Members of Congress, first for U.S. Representative Mel Watt, from North Carolina, and then for U.S. Representative Anna Eshoo. She has also served as a judicial extern to Senior United States District Court Judge Thelton E. Henderson. While in law school, she served as a Moot Court Board member and teaching assistant and an editor for the Womenâs Law Journal.

A proud plaintiffs' attorney, Ms. Liberty has taken a leadership role professionally. Ms. Liberty is the Treasurer and on Executive Committee of the Alameda-Contra Costa Trial Lawyers Association (former Editor in Chief of The Verdict magazine). She actively serves on the governing boards of the following organizations: Consumer Attorneys of California, the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Women's Caucus and Chair of the New Lawyers), the Congress of Neutrals, the California Young Lawyers Association, and New Lawyers Division Board of Governors for AAJ. She is also a member of the Earl Warren Inn of Court, Public Justice Foundation, and a Emerge-California graduate. She is a former board member of the Women's Section of the Contra Costa County Bar, and Past Chair of the Contra Costa County Bar Association's Barristers Section.

Ms. Liberty is also leader in her community. She is the President of the National Women's Political Caucus (San Francisco), in that function she strives to recruit, support and endorse female candidates for political office. She testifies at the Board of Supervisors on issues that impact the lives of women and girls locally and frequently gives political commentary for local news outlets.

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Patrick Michael Donnici

415-986-1338

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Antitrust, Business Law, Corporate, Estate Planning

180 Montgomery St, Suite 940
San Francisco, CA 94104

John Phillip Makin

925-866-1000

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Antitrust, Business Law, Insurance Bad Faith

6111 Bollinger Canyon Rd
San Ramon, CA 94583

John Morwick Ross

925-935-0700

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Antitrust, Business Law, Entertainment / Sports, Insurance Bad Faith, Real Estate Law

1333 N California Blvd
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Carolyn Beasley Burton

925-210-2800

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Antitrust, Business Law, Products Liability

100 Pringle Ave
Walnut Creek, CA 94596

Robert Andrew Randick Jr

925-460-3700

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Antitrust, Business Law, Intellectual Property, Real Estate Law

5000 Hopyard Rd
Pleasanton, CA 94588

George Joseph Frost

510-666-0141

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Antitrust, Business Law, Entertainment / Sports, Intellectual Property, Real Estate Law

2930 Magnolia St
Berkeley, CA 94705

Donald Chidi Amamgbo

510-615-6000

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Antitrust, Business Law

7901 Oakport St
Oakland, CA 94621

Judith Anne Blackwell

510-689-8888

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Antitrust, Municipal Law

584 Valle Vista Ave
Oakland, CA 94610

Mikal Jenna Condon

510-874-1000

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Antitrust, Intellectual Property, Securities Law

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

Kenneth Fisher Rossman IV

510-874-1101

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Antitrust, Business Law

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

Mikal Jenna Condon

510-874-1000

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Antitrust, Business Law

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

John Frederick Cove Jr

510-874-1002

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Antitrust, Criminal Law, Intellectual Property

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

Theodore Tyler Ting

Reed Smith

510-466-6708

Antitrust, Antitrust, Competition & EU Law, Arbitration / Mediation, Business Law, Commercial Litigation and Disputes More >>

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

Eric Gregory Wallis

Reed Smith

510-466-6754

Antitrust, Antitrust, Competition & EU Law, Business Law, Capital Markets, Corporate & Securities More >>

1999 Harrison St
Oakland, CA 94612

Michael Joseph Higgins

510-835-9100

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Antitrust, Business Law, Intellectual Property

Gilmur Roderick Murray

510-444-2660

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Antitrust, Business Law, Consumer Law, Environmental

436 14th St
Oakland, CA 94612

David Wayne Moyer

510-522-1200

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Antitrust, Business Law, Car Accidents, Injury Law, Insurance Bad Faith More >>

1000 Marina Village Pkwy
Alameda, CA 94501

Michael William Kelly Esq

216-479-8500

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Antitrust, Bankruptcy / Debt, Business Law, Civil Rights, Criminal Law More >>

1 Maritime St
Oakland, CA 94607

James Vincent Tortolano

408-474-1236

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Antitrust, Business Law, Intellectual Property, Real Estate Law

1849 Fortune Dr
San Jose, CA 95131

David Eugene Russo

415-543-5300

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Admiralty / Maritime, Antitrust, Business Law

101 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94105

Stewart Harvey Foreman

415-541-0200

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Antitrust, Arbitration / Mediation, Business Law, Car Accidents, Injury Law More >>

150 Spear St
San Francisco, CA 94105

Robert Louis Fleischman

415-834-3800

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Antitrust, Business Law, Insurance Bad Faith

150 Spear St
San Francisco, CA 94105

Paul Riehle

Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP

415-781-7900

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Antitrust, Antitrust & Trade Practices, Business Law, Business Litigation, Class Action More >>

1 Market Plaza
San Francisco, CA 94105

Mona Solouki

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

415-774-3210

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Antitrust, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, General Civil, Litigation