Appeals lawyers in California Michael Partos to Paul Minney

Firm: COZEN O'CONNOR

777 South Figueroa Street , Los Angeles , California 90017

Practice Areas: Business , Employment & Labor , Insurance , Products Liability, Appeals, Appeals

Firm: Totaro & Shananhan

411 West 4th Street , Santa Ana , California 92701

Practice Areas: Bankruptcy, Appeals, Bankruptcy & Debt, Bankruptcy & Debt

Undergraduate Degree from De Paul University. J.D. from Hastings College of the Law. LL.M. from George Washington National Law Center in Law, Psychiatry and Criminology.. Practice is devoted 90% to Bankruptcy, mostly Chapter 11 business and individual

Firm: Law Office of Paul Kujawsky

Culver City , Los Angeles , California 90230

Practice Areas: Appeals

Firm principal Paul Kujawsky has thirty years of experience as an appellate attorney.  He began his career as a staff attorney with the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, where he drafted scores of opinions for the court in all areas of civil and criminal law.  From 1989 to 1994, he was employed by the firm of Wasserman, Comden and Casselman, in Tarzana, California.  There, he drafted and reviewed discovery, performed legal research, prepared motions, and wrote appellate briefs and writ petitions for the firm’s complex insurance defense and government liability cases.. In 1994, Mr. Kujawsky opened his own appellate law practice in Studio City, California.  Since that time, he has focused exclusively in appellate practice, in all areas of civil and criminal law.  Over the years, he has had the opportunity to use his expertise to help many clients and fellow attorneys through the appeals process. Mr. Kujawsky is proud to have written an amicus brief for members of Congress in Zivotofsky v. Clinton, 10-699. [An American citizen born in Jerusalem is entitled to have “Israel” listed as his birthplace in his passport. Congress shares foreign policy management with the President; the President can’t nullify Congressional legislation with a “signing statement.”] The brief helped persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to decide the important Constitutional questions in the case.. Mr. Kujawsky received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis School of Law and his undergraduate degree from Yale University.  He was admitted to practice in the state of California in 1983.. Mr. Kujawsky is an independent, creative thinker who has exceptional writing skills.

Firm: Stutz Artiano Shinoff & Holtz

43513 Ridge Park Drive , Temecula , California 92590

Practice Areas: Business Organizations, Appeals, Appeals

Firm: Brb Law LLP

492 9th St Ste 220 , Oakland , California 94607

Practice Areas: Appeals

207 King St Ste 300 , San Francisco , California 94107

Practice Areas: Commercial Real Estate, Construction, Appeals

Firm: Haight Brown & Bonesteel

3750 University Avenue Suite 240 , Riverside , California 92501

Practice Areas: General Practice, Appeals

Firm: Pine Tillett Pine LLP

14156 Magnolia Boulevard , Sherman Oaks , California 91423

Practice Areas: Appellate , Appeals

Appellate specialist with significant background both in plaintiffs' substantive law (employment rights law, personal injury, product liability, etc.) and in complex business litigation. Formerly with Manatt, Phelps & Rothenberg; antitrust boutique Blecher & Collins; and appellate firm Horvitz & Levy. Our firm handles the full range of appellate-related law practice including consulting at the trial court level on issues likely to have significant appellate consequences and handling appeals throughout the state, in both state and federal courts. I have practiced exclusively as an appellate lawyer since 1990 and am a Certified Appellate Law Specialist (California Board of Legal Specialization).

Firm: Evans Kingsbury LLP

50 Old Courthouse Square , Santa Rosa , California 95404

Practice Areas: Appeals

We look forward to personally meeting you virtually or in our Sonoma County office. Contact us today. Noreen is certified by the State Bar as an appellate specialist. She has decades of experience in civil appeals and in civil litigation. As a former State Legislator, Evans offers a unique background and perspective for your case on appeal and at trial. She has argued numerous cases in the state and federal trial and appellate courts and the California Supreme Court, involving land use, environmental law, CEQA, trust litigation, and personal injury litigation. She is the author of numerous pieces of significant legislation, including the Electronic Discovery Act, the Expedited Jury Trial Act, and the Homeowners Bill of Rights, the first law of its kind in the nation providing homeowners certain rights in foreclosure proceedings.. Noreen has been practicing law since 1982. While in law school, she clerked for the Third District Court of Appeal. She served in the California State Legislature for a decade and was responsible for numerous pieces of legislation relating to the administration of justice. In 2012, she was honored by the Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court with the Stanley Mosk Defender of Justice Award. She chaired the State Senate Committee on the Judiciary and served on the Judicial Council for 4 years. She also co-chaired a statewide committee on access to justice.. EDUCATION. Noreen received her BA degree in Government (with honors) in 1978 from California State University, Sacramento. She graduated from University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law in 1981. In her third year at McGeorge, she wrote for and edited the first-ever edition of the Silversheets, a review of Nevada law.. After graduation from law school, Noreen studied International Business Law at the University of Salzburg, Austria, She completed an international law internship in Dublin, Ireland with A & L Goodbody, Solicitors.. EARLY LEGAL CAREER. From 1980-81, Noreen clerked for Justice Edwin Regan of the Third District Court of Appeal in Sacramento.. In 1982, Noreen was hired as an associate at Spridgen, Barrett, Achor, Luckhardt, Anderson, James & Ziegler, at that time the oldest and largest law firm north of the Golden Gate Bridge. Noreen was the firm’s first full-time female litigation attorney.. When the Spridgen firm dissolved later that year, Noreen became a litigation associate with Gray, O’Brien, Watters & Davis. She was made an equity partner in 1987.. PUBLIC SERVICE. In 1993, Noreen was appointed to the Santa Rosa Planning Commission, where she worked extensively with land use planning issues and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). She helped the City adopt its first Child Care Plan and Creek Restoration Plan.. In 1996, Noreen was elected to the Santa Rosa City Council, She served two terms on the City Council. As a City Councilmember, she was responsible for implementing the Creek Restoration Plan, the City’s Bike Plan, working to build the Prince Memorial Greenway on Santa Rosa Creek. Her vision, when first elected, was to build a passenger rail system and restore Santa Rosa’s downtown, including reunifying Courthouse Square. More than 2 decades later, this vision has become a reality with SMART rail service beginning in 2017, and Santa Rosa’s reunified Square.. In 2004, Noreen was elected to represent the 7th Assembly District in the California State Assembly. While in the Assembly, she was appointed by the Speaker to chair the Joint Legislative Committee on Budget in 2008, and charged with balancing the State’s budget during the global economic crisis of 2009/2010.. In 2010, Noreen was elected to the State Senate to represent the 2nd Senate District, including Solano, Napa, Marin, Sonoma, Lake, Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. In 2012, she chaired the Joint Legislative Committee on California’s Foreclosure Crisis, which resulted in the passage of The Homeowners Bill of Rights (AB 278/SB 900). The Homeowners Bill of Rights implements the historic 49-State Attorneys General settlement with five of the national’s largest banks and was the first of its kind in the nation. Noreen also chaired the Joint Legislative Women’s Caucus in 2010-2012 and served on the State Commission on the Status of Women.. From 2010-2014, Noreen chaired the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. and served four years on the Judicial Council, the governing body for all State courts.. In 2011, Noreen was honored as the first and only woman to receive the Judicial Council’s Stanley Mosk Defender of Justice Award for her decades of work ensuring access to justice.. Noreen is a founding Director of the Leadership Institute for Ecology and the Economy, located in Sonoma County and formerly served on the Board of Directors of Greenbelt Alliance.. RECENT LEGAL CAREER. Noreen returned to the full-time practice of law after completing her term in the State Senate in late 2014. Since then, she has been Of Counsel to O'Brien Watters & Davis, LLP, where she has handled numerous civil cases in the trial and appellate courts. Her practice focuses primarily on civil appeals and writs. In 2018, she won a significant victory for a local neighborhood organization in a high-profile matter against the County of Sonoma, based on the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Her clients not only obtained a writ of mandate compelling the County to invalidate its development agreement, but they also recovered all of their fees and costs. Noreen recently successfully argued a groundbreaking case in the 9th Circuit, limiting the IRS' ability to obtain taxpayer records by subpoena. (JB v. United States, 916 F.3d 1161 (9th Cir., 2019.) In addition to her appellate and writ practice, she is representing thousands of local plaintiffs in litigation arising out of the 2017 wildfires in Sonoma, Napa and Mendocino Counties.. PUBLIC OFFICES HELD. 1993-1996 Planning Commissioner, City of Santa Rosa1996-2004 City Councilmember, City of Santa Rosa2004-2010 Assemblymember, CA State Assembly2010-2014 Senator, CA State Senate. COMMITTEES CHAIRED. Assembly Human ServicesAssembly Committee on BudgetJoint Legislative Committee on BudgetSenate Committee on JudiciarySenate Committee on Banking & Financial InstitutionsAssembly Select Committee on WineSenate Select Committee on WineLegislative Women’s Caucus. LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE AND CAUCUS MEMBERSHIPS. Senate Legislative Ethics CommitteeSenate Human ServicesSenate Committee on BudgetSenate Natural ResourcesSenate Governmental OrganizationAssembly JudiciaryAssembly Human ServicesAssembly Committee on BudgetAssembly Committee on Banking & FinanceAssembly Committee on Toxic MaterialsAssembly Governmental OrganizationJoint Committee on Fisheries and AquacultureAssembly Select Committee on Foster CareLegislative Women’s CaucusSenate Rural CaucusSenate Caucus on Ending Poverty and Inequality in California. LEGAL MEMBERSHIPS. Judicial Council 2011- 2014Law Revision Commission 2005-2008Commission on the Status of Women 2006-2014CA Coastal Conservancy 2008--2014CA Bar Association - Current memberSonoma County Bar Association - Current member. SIGNIFICANT LEGAL AWARDS. McGeorge School of Law Distinguished Alumni 2015. California Judges Association, Legislator of the Year 2010Judicial Council, Stanley Mosk Defender of Justice Award 2012Consumer Attorneys of California, Legislator of the Year 2013. SIGNIFICANT LEGISLATION AUTHORED. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICEElectronic Discovery Act (AB 5 of 2009; now Code of Civil Procedure §§ et seq.) Establishes rules for discovery of electronically-stored information in civil casesExpedited Jury Trial Act (SB 2284 of 2010; now Code of Civil Procedure §§ et seq.) Reduces the number of jurors in small civil casesSmall Claims Court: (AB 712 of 2009 amending Code of Civil Procedure §) Enables Small Claims Courts to grant equitable reliefState Bar Governance Reform: (SB 163 of 2011) Reformed the governance structure of the California State Bar Association, expanding public participation and improving accountability.. FORECLOSURESHomeowners Bill of Rights (SB 900, 2012). WINERIESNon-profit donations: AB 323 (2007) enabling wineries to donate wine to non-profit organizationsWinery picnic areas: AB 2004 (2008) allowing visitors to a winery to drink wine in the winery picnic areaTasting events: AB 2090 (2008) creating a temporary license to allow wine grape commissions, associations and other organizations to organize tasting eventsSecond tasting rooms: AB 1470 (2009) allowing second tasting rooms not located on winery groundsSonoma County wines: AB 1798 (2010) protecting wine produced in Sonoma County by establishing stricter labeling requirements. OTHERVeterans: SB 10 (2011) Permits Allied Councils to represent the interests of veterans in Veterans Homes before the State LegislatureCounty fairs: AB 2258 (2008) protecting county fair funding originating from licensing fees on horseracing eventsConsumer protection: AB 1216 (2009; amending Food & Agriculture Code §29413) requiring labeling for honey produced in CaliforniaCriminal Justice: SB 59 (2013) broadens the statutory definition of rape to include rape by fraud

Firm: Mccormick Barstow Et Al LLP

Po Box 28912 , Fresno , California 93729

Practice Areas: M & A, Intellectual Property, Appeals, Mergers & Acquisitions

Firm: Wood, Smith, Henning & Berman LLP

505 North Brand Boulevard Suite 1100 , Glendale , California 91203

Practice Areas: Appeals, Defective and Dangerous Products

Firm: Walsworth, Franklin, Bevins & McCall,LLP

1 City Boulevard West Fifth Floor , Orange , California 92868

Practice Areas: General Practice, Appeals, Appeals, Appeals

Firm: Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

900 Middlefield Rd Ste 200 , Redwood City , California 94063

Practice Areas: Appeals

13746 Victory Blvd Ste 309 , Sherman Oaks , California 91401

Practice Areas: Appeals

Certified as an Appellate Specialist by the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization

Firm: Abelson Herron Halpern LLP

333 South Grand Avenue , Los Angeles , California 90071

Practice Areas: Appeals

Firm: Young, Minney & Corr, LLP

655 University Ave Ste 150 , Sacramento , California 95825

Practice Areas: Appeals

Po Box 4511 , Orange , California 92863

Practice Areas: Appeals

Firm: Ghods Law Firm

2100 N. Broadway. , Santa Ana , California 92706

Practice Areas: Appeals

1604 Solano Ave , Albany , California 94707

Practice Areas: Appeals

Firm: Michelman & Robinson Llp

15260 Ventura Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 91403

Practice Areas: Appeals