Robert S. Beall, II - Partner - Orange County

Mr. Beall specializes in complex civil litigation and intellectual property disputes, with emphasis in unfair competition, securities, trade secret, patent and professional liability litigation.  Mr. Beall  represents many major clients including, Georgia Pacific, Unisource, LaSalle Business Credit, U.S. Bancorp, Comerica Bank, General Electric Capital Corporation, Storage USA, American Megatrends, Inc., Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc., Iron Grip Barbell Company and Fender Musical Instruments, Inc.

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Roy Goldberg - Partner - Washington, D.C.

Mr. Goldberg concentrates his practice on complex commercial and regulatory litigation. He represents companies and other organizations that are challenging the actions by local, state or national government agencies, or are involved in commercial business disputes. In addition to general civil litigation, he has particular experience in matters involving the airline industry, and is the head of the firm's aviation group.

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Fred R. Puglisi - Partner - Century City

Mr. Puglisi has extensive experience in complex and general business litigation in state and federal courts, including class actions. He has conducted numerous trials and arbitrations, including trying class and representative actions. Mr. Puglisi also has broad appellate work which includes arguments to the California Court of Appeal and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal. Most recently, he has defended a number of complex class and representative actions alleging various business torts, unfair competition, false advertising, and violations of the California Consumers Legal Remedies Act.

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Susan G. Rosenthal - Partner - New York

Ms. Rosenthal concentrates her practice in corporate and commercial litigation, representing businesses and financial institutions in areas such as contract interpretation, the Uniform Commercial Code, equipment leasing, secured transactions and lender liability.  She also conducts investigations for businesses, banks and financial institutions, as well as representing businesses, banks and financial institutions in defense of class actions.  She has successfully litigated cases in federal, state and bankruptcy courts throughout the country (i) proving that a personal property lease is a true lease and not a conditional sale under the Uniform Commercial Code; (ii) enforcing the rights of assignees of commercial paper where debtors assert among other defenses (a) fraud (b) lack of consideration (c) non-negotiability of the instrument (d) oral modifications and/or amendments to contracts; (iii) defeating attempts to equitably subordinate debt; and (iv) defeating vendors' claims for the purchase price of equipment from financial institutions that finance the end-users.

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Robert J. Stumpf, Jr. - Partner - San Francisco

Mr. Stumpf is the chair of Sheppard Mullin's Financial Institutions Litigation Practice Group. Bob's principal areas of practice are commercial litigation and appellate law. His commercial litigation practice focuses upon financial institution litigation, securities litigation, contract and partnership disputes, bankruptcy litigation, and other types of complex commercial litigation. Bob is also a Certified Specialist in Appellate Law.

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Edward D. Vogel - Partner - San Diego/Downtown

Mr. Vogel's practice encompasses a variety of litigation areas with a focus on business litigation. He has handled significant and current issues in the areas of creditor's rights, lender liability, commercial law, and products liability. He has been responsible for arbitrations and trials in the state, federal, and bankruptcy courts and appeals in both the state and federal appellate courts. Mr. Vogel has handled appeals which have resulted in published opinions regarding issues of lender liability and good faith settlements in the products liability area.

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