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Paula Pendley is an associate in the Los Angeles office of Hawkins Parnell Thackston & Young LLP, where her practice focuses on Products Liability, Contracts, Premises Liability, and Toxic Tort and Environmental litigation. In addition, Paula has experience representing and advising entertainment companies and producers on a variety of matters, including copyright and breach of contract issues, as well has negotiating clearances, talent agreements, option agreements, shopping agreements, and other production-related matters.. While completing her Juris Doctorate at Pepperdine University School of Law, Paula served as judicial extern for the Honorable Lawrence Mira of the Malibu Superior Court. She also worked for the California Attorney General’s office in its Employment, Regulations, and Administrations division. While earning her Juris Doctorate, she attended the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution where she completed her Certificate in Dispute Resolution and assisted in the publication of the article “Arbitration: The ‘New Litigation’” and the book “Mediators Acting as Arbitrators.”

Named one of "California's Top 20 Attorneys" by California Lawyer magazine, Tony Stuart's approach is to limit the numbers of cases he handles so that he can apply the highest standards of legal service to each and every client.. Pictured: Tony and his client Dana Christensen at the United States Supreme Court.

Joel A. Osman, is Senior Counsel  and General Counsel to the Firm at Parker Mills LLP. He concentrates his practice on litigation and trials. Prior to joining Parker Mills in 2014, Mr. Osman was principal of Osman & Associates a private law firm in South Pasadena . Prior to setting up his private practice, he managed a similarly named entity which was part of staff counsel to Travelers Indemnity Company. For Travelers, he was responsible for all aspects of managing its Southern California liability practice, its multi-million dollar budget and 54 employees engaged in defense of Travelers insureds in all manner of general liability, auto, fire and subrogation matters.. Previously, Mr. Osman was a senior partner at Anderson, McPharlin & Conners LLP in Los Angeles. In his career, he has represented clients in cases involving professional liability, general liability, product liability, construction defect and commercial litigation, trying numerous jury trials to verdict. He has focused much of his interest on the defense of lawyers and legal ethics.. His current professional activities include membership in the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee (where he was the chairperson for the 2008-2009 year). He has recently been appointed to serve on the State Bar's Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct.. Areas of Practice:. Commercial Litigation. Insurance. Professional Liability and ethics. Personal injury. Bar Admissions:. State Bar of California, 1982. Admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Education:. University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, 1981, J.D.. University of California, San Diego, 1978, B.A., History, magna cum laude. Professional Associations & Memberships:. Los Angeles County Bar Association, current member and former Chair of Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee (2008-2009). Current member of State Bar of California Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and Conduct. Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers. Past Employment Positions:. Osman & Associates ( a private law firm. Osman & Associates (Staff Counsel for Travelers Indemnity Company)—2006--2013. Anderson, McPharlin & Conners, LLP, 1985 – 2006. Law Offices of Hunsucker & Sabo, 1983 - 1985. Law Offices of Schell & Delamer, 1979 – 1982 (began as law clerk)

Hello, you know how attorney's fees can really crush a company's bottom line. Well how do you know if you got what you paid for? Has a client questioned your fees? What are the prevailing market rates in your community? What options do you have to deal with a dispute over legal fees? Are the charges that your opponent has submited reasonable? I can answer these types of questions as I have reviewed over $2 billion dollars in bills (and work product) and have testified many times.. Traveling in Japan became an interest many years ago when I married a woman who was born and raised in Tokyo.  Tokyo folks are something like Manhattanites--in that they don't seem to really believe that anything outside their little area is REALLY worth visiting.  So we made a deal that one visit to Japan would be to Tokyo and the next visit would be to a place in Japan of MY choosing.  Because of this deal (and because my wife speaks Japanese) we got to go to almost all of the out of the way spots in the country.  We have many friends in Japan and I believe that I have a fairly good understanding of many aspects of the culture and I would welcome any sort of inquiry that has any connection to anything Japanese.. For my "pro-bono" work, I recently became a member of the Board of Directors of the Pasadena (CA) Humane Society and SPCA, which is a 100+ year old non-profit that handles the animal affairs for 7 cities.. My one real indulgence is my Porsche Carerra. 5 minutes in it makes me happy!