November 15, 2024 By: Artin Betpera, Christina Morgan and David Liu I. Introduction Any business operating a website needs to be aware of the proliferation of lawsuits targeting websites which use any type of customer tracking technology. While advantageous to the business in its marketing efforts, the data collection subjects the business to potential liability. This is true whether the business is physically located in California or elsewhere – if the business gathers California customer’s information, a risk arises. II. What sort of technologies are being targeted? a. Web Beacons: Web beacons gather information about visitors to websites...
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Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for eight decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world. They rely on our forward-thinking to help them resolve problems before they arise.
At Buchalter, we practice in that spirit.
Our founding principle-providing our clients with the best business solutions-continues to lead us. We value each client relationship, recognizing that their success is our success. Our overarching goal-getting the best results for the client in a timely manner with sensitivity to cost-has engendered client loyalty, and the firm has grown from that loyalty.
Our lawyers are accessible, resourceful, skillful and adept at responding to change. Our technological capabilities keep case law and rule changes at our fingertips and client communications current, enabling us to create efficient, superior outcomes.
We strongly believe that technology is a tool that furthers the practice of law and have used that belief to develop a cutting edge platform for our firm. We use a meshed (NVPN) network to facilitate work among offices, Cisco VoIP telephony and Video-over-IP conferencing. Sharing documents is seamless through FileSite, which is also utilized to create our Client Extranets. To support our litigation matters, we use Concordance and Opticon, as well as LiveNote and Sanction. Unlike many firms, we have the capacity to process e-Discovery in-house, reducing client costs.
Buchalter lawyers are also active members of the communities in which they live and work. Leadership is a value the founding partners practiced and passed on to the current generation of attorneys. Our lawyers sit on the boards of prominent organizations, teach and lecture frequently. We actively participate in many associations and groups including the Public Law Center, San Francisco Legal Aid Society, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the LACBA Domestic Violence Project, the Sojourner Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Phoenix and many others.
Buchalter is consistently ranked among the leading law firms by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Daily Journal and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It is also ranked among the leading firms nationally by American Legal Media and the National Law Journal.
Buchalter's commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities in which we practice is more than eight decades strong. The firm's diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater array of creative talent and alternative thinking, benefiting all.
Year this Office was Established: 1933
Lawyers Worldwide: 476
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Partners
Robert S. Addison Jr.
ShareholderKalley R. Aman
ShareholderPaul S. Arrow
ShareholderFarhad Bahar
ShareholderAlison M. Ballard
ShareholderAdam J. Bass
ShareholderAriel A. Berrios
ShareholderFarah Bhatti
ShareholderOren Bitan
ShareholderBernard Bollinger
ShareholderMark A. Bonenfant
ShareholderJay S. Bowen
ShareholderWilliam S. Brody
ShareholderJason Brooks
ShareholderJed Burton
ShareholderHarry W R Chamberlain II
ShareholderLee C. Cheng
Shareholder and Chair of the Greater China Practice GroupArthur Chinski
ShareholderJohn Clough
ShareholderRick Cohen
Partner EmeritusRobert S. Cooper
ShareholderA. Blake Cooper
ShareholderMark T. Cramer
ShareholderJason Croft
ShareholderNicholas J. Dancey
ShareholderRobert J. Davidson
ShareholderMatthew DeVries
ShareholderSteven Di Saia
ShareholderRussell Dunlap
ShareholderJosh Escovedo
ShareholderDouglas P. Farr
ShareholderJoseph K. Fletcher, III
ShareholderTerry Freeman
ShareholderRobert S. Gillison
ShareholderJason E. Goldstein
ShareholderGabriel G. Green
ShareholderLandon Hardcastle
ShareholderBrian T. Harvey
ShareholderHarumi Hata
ShareholderAmber Healy
ShareholderRobert B. Hinckley Jr.
ShareholderDavid Hitchcock
ShareholderPeter V. Hogan
ShareholderWillmore (Bill) Holbrow III
ShareholderJohn L. Hosack
ShareholderPeggy Hosking
ShareholderAmanda Hyland
ShareholderJeffrey H. Kapor
ShareholderDaniel Katz
ShareholderMatthew W. Kavanaugh
ShareholderEric Kennedy
ShareholderLauren Kilgore
ShareholderMitchell Kim
ShareholderKevin M. Lally
ShareholderLance Lehnhof
ShareholderAaron M. Levine
ShareholderRobert Collings Little
ShareholderCheryl M. Lott
ShareholderCarol K. Lucas
ShareholderDavid Mainzer
ShareholderDavid E. Mark
ShareholderMercedes O. Martin
ShareholderDamaris L. Medina
ShareholderMichael L. Meeks
ShareholderJeffrey W. Melcher
ShareholderWilliam M. Miller
ShareholderRobert Miller
ShareholderJennifer Misetich
ShareholderMasahisa Mitsunaga
ShareholderJoshua Mizrahi
ShareholderTerese A. Mosher Beluris
ShareholderMichael Muse-Fisher
ShareholderAnthony J. Napolitano
ShareholderCoby Nixon
ShareholderPhilip Nulud
ShareholderC. Tyler Ohanian
ShareholderRichard P. Ormond
ShareholderTalbott Ottinger
ShareholderMichelle Pham
ShareholderR. Chad Pugh
ShareholderRajnish Puri
ShareholderJosiah R. Reid
ShareholderJoshua M. Robbins
ShareholderMary H. Rose
ShareholderKeven Rowe
ShareholderDaniel M. Rygorsky
ShareholderScott M. Salomon
ShareholderJoel G. Samuels
ShareholderWilliam Schoenholz
ShareholderAndrew Selesnick
ShareholderMatthew L. Seror
ShareholderMichael Shonafelt
ShareholderBradley G. Siegal
ShareholderDaniel H. Slate
ShareholderScott O. Smith
ShareholderBarry A. Smith, Esq.
ShareholderPooya E. Sohi
ShareholderLauren M. Spahn
ShareholderSteven M. Spector
ShareholderRyan D. Staley
ShareholderLarry Steinberg
ShareholderGeorge Stephan
ShareholderStephen J. Strauss
ShareholderGordon Stuart
ShareholderBlake Terry
ShareholderSeth Trimble
ShareholderJoseph Vargas
ShareholderTanya Viner
ShareholderMichael L. Wachtell
ShareholderPamela Kohlman Webster
ShareholderJeremy Weitz
ShareholderMarcus J. Williams
ShareholderMichael Williamson
ShareholderRobert A. Willner
ShareholderPhilip J. Wolman
ShareholderMichael J. Worth
ShareholderJeffrey S. Wruble
ShareholderMichael Zerman
ShareholderAssociates
Sarah Andrzejczak
AttorneyRonald J. Arias
AttorneyAnita Barooni
AttorneyJohn T. Baxter
AttorneyAnjel Bonilla
AttorneyCameron Brown
AttorneySylvia Cheong
AttorneyJacob T. Clabo
AttorneyNicolette A. Cohen
AttorneyKevin Connelly
AttorneyNicholas Couchot
AttorneyShir Davidovicz
AttorneyErick A. Diaz
AttorneyOlivia Durnell
AttorneyPokuaa M. Enin
AttorneyEliana A. Fields
AttorneyZachary R. Fountas
AttorneyMichael Fuoroli
AttorneyKaren N. George
AttorneySummer Geyer
AttorneyTia Gonzalez
AttorneyFrank Herrera
AttorneyVahan Khodanian
AttorneyMichelle Lopez
AttorneyMelody Mohammadi
AttorneyGrace Moore
AttorneyCory Mull
AttorneyMarshall Olney
AttorneyTaylor Park
AttorneyDakota Pearce
AttorneyBailey Peiffer
AttorneySteven Prawitt
AttorneyColin Rowe
AttorneyEliana A. Spero
AttorneyAaron M. Steinberg
AttorneyStephanie Thompson
AttorneyMi Tran
AttorneyZachary Tucker
AttorneyAustin Vining
AttorneyBrett Voets
AttorneyMasataka Wada
Foreign Attorney Law ClerkKaitlin White
AttorneyYuming (Violet) Zhang
AttorneyDaniel Zhivanaj
AttorneyOf Counsel
Russell Allyn
Of CounselSteven G Churchwell
Of CounselEfrat M. Cogan
Of CounselJessie Reider Cristo
Senior CounselLucas A. Davidson
Senior CounselAaron Elster
Senior CounselMichael B. Fisher
Of CounselMichael C. Flynn
Of CounselJennifer Guerrero
Senior CounselDana Hobart
Of CounselKarl Israelsen
Of CounselGerald "Jerry" Janoff
Senior CounselNeil Katsuyama
Senior CounselGraham Lambert
Senior CounselVanessa LeFort
Senior CounselC. Dennis Loomis
Of CounselMelanie T. Marcheschi
Senior CounselDanielle Mayer
Senior CounselChadwick McCombs
Senior CounselSelena Medlen
Associate General CounselRebecca Miller
Special CounselAshley Milnes
Senior CounselKelly Casey Mullally
Of CounselSteven M. Nakasone
Of CounselCatie Oryl
Special CounselAlexandra Bijan Pakzad
Special CounselDallis Nordstrom Rohde
Of CounselNicole Sahagen Schiff
Of CounselZaven Sargsian
Senior CounselGray Sasser
Of CounselJack R. Scharringhausen
Senior CounselRebekah L. Shulman
Special CounselStuart A. Simon
Of CounselKenny Tamura
Senior CounselSarin Tavlian
Senior CounselSusan P. White
Special CounselJim Zumwalt
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The Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024
October 21, 2024 By: Kayla Radnia and Jeffrey H. Kapor On September 22, 2024, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707 into law, known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (“the Act”). This new legislation requires companies that produce clothing and textiles sold in California to form and join a producer responsibility organization (“PRO”) by 2026, which will create a plan for collecting, repairing, and recycling textiles, thereby promoting reuse and sustainability...
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Eric Kennedy Featured in the “How I Made It” series on Law.com
Law.com recently featured Buchalter Shareholder Eric Kennedy in their ‘How I Made It’ Q&A Series, where attorneys offer career advancement advice and success stories. By: ALM Staff "How I Made Office Managing Partner: 'When the Firm Needs Something Done, Raise Your Hand,' Says Eric Kennedy of Buchalter How would you describe your career trajectory (was it organic or an active pursuit)? My trajectory has always been very active. I am a goal-setter, working toward clear objectives and trying to learn from successes and failures along the way. I am constantly striving to improve as a lawyer and a leader. I read books, talk to mentors, and take lots of notes...
David Balfour Wins Court Of Appeal Decision Affirming Denial Of Physician’s Retaliation Claim Against Hospital
David Balfour and Carol Salmacia, retired, prevailed in a Court of Appeal decision in the matter of Slone v. El Centro Regional Medical Center on behalf of client El Centro Regional Medical Center. Dr. Slone had alleged ECRMC retaliated against him for making complaints about patient care. He brought a claim for retaliation under California Health & Safety Code section 1278.5. ECRMC prevailed at the trial court after a bench trial. Dr. Slone appealed. The Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court decision and determined Dr. Slone did not have an actionable complaint under section 1278.5. A link to the unpublished decision. For more information, please click here...
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