Practice Areas
Business Litigation
Representative Work
Summary of Representative Work
Professional Experience
John has over 25 years of experience. Prior to joining Sussman Shank, he worked for more than 20 years at Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP in Los Angeles, California, where he was a partner for nearly 15 years. John's practice focuses on complex business litigation in both state and federal courts across a wide spectrum of legal issues and industries, including the following:
- Intra-Corporate and Intra-Partner Disputes
- Class and Derivative Actions
- Commercial
- Franchise
- Insurance
- Intellectual Property
- Real Estate
- Securities
- Sports/Entertainment
- Trade Secrets
John's cases include representation of such clients as Realogy Corp.; Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC; Century 21 Real Estate LLC; Citizens of Humanity; Public Storage, Inc.; Brighton Collectibles, Inc.; Ticketmaster; Pearl Bakery; DIRECTV; SunAmerica; Broadcom; Apple; Steven Spielberg/ Dreamworks; the founders of Guess jeans; Olivia Newton-John; and Beverly Hills Sports Council.
John is AV®, peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is admitted to practice law in Oregon and Washington and California.
Honors/Awards
Oregon Super Lawyers 2009
Professional Organizations
American Bar Association
Multnomah County Bar Association
Professionalism Committee
Oregon Civil Law
Advisory Committee
Oregon Law Commission
Working Group on Uniform Interstate Deposition and Discovery
Oregon State Bar
Procedure and Practice Committee Immediate Past Chair
State Bar of California
Washington State Bar Association
Education
A.B., History, magna cum laude, Brown University
Departmental honors
Phi Beta Kappa
J.D., Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
Order of the Coif
