Cyndie Marie Chang
Cyndie Chang Los Angeles Managing Partner, Trial Lawyer @Duane Morris; Business
Cyndie M. Chang is the Managing Partner of the firm's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Chang manages risks and resolves business challenges. She advises and partners with clients to defend them in commercial disputes, enforce their rights, mitigate exposure, and litigate their commercial disputes. She has often handled corporate litigation involving mergers & acquisitions, asset or stock sales, fraud, securities, purchase and sale agreements, business or partner break-ups. She also has handle many other complex or class action disputes involving contracts, trademarks, licensing, products liability, product safety and recall, construction defect, trade secrets, California Proposition 65, and real estate. She also defends insurance companies with respect to environmental, asbestos, toxic tort and commercial general liability insurance coverage claims, as well as contribution, bad faith, and reinsurance disputes. Her services have spanned various industries, including manufacturing, retail, fashion, consumer goods, healthcare, insurance, cannabis, education, energy, utilities, transportation, auto, telecommunications, and financial services and banks.
Ms. Chang has represented many public and private businesses, including Fortune 500 companies. She has obtained favorable results serving as first chair in state and federal bench trials, jury trials and arbitration, and has led joint defense groups in complex cases, and resolved cases through creative settlements, confidential proceedings, and dispositive motions. Ms. Chang has also been featured in the Los Angeles Business Journal, Above the Law, Ms. JD, The American Lawyer, Diversity Journal, Diversity Executive, the Daily Journal and other legal publications.
- Antitrust Law
- Insurance Claims
- Bad Faith Insurance, Business Insurance, Disability Insurance, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Motor Vehicle Insurance, Property Insurance
- Tax Law
- Business Taxes, Criminal Tax Litigation, Estate Tax Planning, Income Taxes, International Taxes, Payroll Taxes, Property Taxes, Sales Taxes, Tax Appeals, Tax Audits, Tax Planning
- Securities Law
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- International Law
- Human Rights, Imports & Exports
- Intellectual Property
- Insurance Defense
- Health Care Law
- Appeals & Appellate
- Civil Appeals, Federal Appeals
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Environmental Law
- Energy, Oil & Gas Law
- Utilities
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation, Family - Arbitration/Mediation
- Insurance Bad Faith
- California
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- Managing Partner Los Angeles
- DUANE MORRIS LLP
- Current
- Loyola Law School Los Angeles
- J.D.
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- The Johns Hopkins University
- B.A.
- with honors
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- California State Bar # 227542
- Member
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