KYL - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Long Beach / Senior Counsel
- Senior Counsel / Long Beach
Ailan Liu joined Keesal, Young & Logan in 2006 and has worked primarily in its Long Beach office. Ailan specializes in corporate and real estate transactional matters and provides general corporate counseling to a number of clients regarding the formation of business entities, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate matters. Ailan also advises corporate clients on trademark and copyright issues relating to prosecution of trademark applications and potential infringement.
Ailan has advised clients in the acquisition and development and leasing of a wide variety of real estate, including industrial land, office buildings, residential developments, and other industrial and commercial properties.
Ailan was born in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province in China and received her B.A. degree at Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. She also obtained her MBA at Golden Gate University. Before coming to the U.S. to pursue her law degree and career, Ailan was an Associate Professor at Jiangnan University in China, teaching business management and international trade for more than 10 years. Her ability to speak Mandarin Chinese as a native and her knowledge of Chinese culture and business practices is an asset to the firm's China practice. Ailan has worked on many China-related projects. She is also actively involved in local Asian-American business organizations.
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- Associate
- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
Ashley Impellitteri is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Her practice includes a broad range of civil litigation matters in state and federal court and securities arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and American Arbitration Association (AAA). She also has appellate briefing experience.
In her securities practice, Ashley has defended financial services firms and individual brokers in judicial and arbitration proceedings involving allegations of fraud, unsuitability, breach of fiduciary duty, failure to supervise, elder abuse, and violation of federal and state securities laws. She has experience defending claims involving equities, bonds, derivatives, options, forward purchase contracts, private placements, and other alternative investments. She has also assisted financial services firms in regulatory proceedings before FINRA and the SEC.
Ashley's maritime practice includes litigation on behalf of shipowners, insurers, ocean carriers, and terminal operators in relation to commercial disputes and personal injuries, as well as advisory matters and complex contract negotiations.
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- Associate / San Francisco
- Associate With Keesal
- San Francisco / Associate
Bailey Maher is an associate with Keesal, Young, & Logan in its San Francisco office. Her practice focuses on a broad range of civil litigation matters in the securities, employment, maritime, and privacy and data security areas.
Bailey graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2022. While in law school, she served as Senior Production Editor for Hastings Law Journal, served on the Executive Board of the Associated Students of UC Hastings (ASUCH), and was President of the Hastings Association of Youth Advocates (HAYA). Bailey worked as a student attorney for the Social Enterprise and Economic Impact Clinic, where she advised clients on corporate governance, compliance, transactional, and operational matters. She also worked as a teaching assistant for Legal Research and Writing, and as a research assistant for the publication of a legal remedies textbook.
Bailey graduated with high honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019, and earned her B.A. in Sociology and minor in Public Policy. She participated in the UCDC program where she spent a semester as a student and legal intern in Washington, DC, and served as a Peter E. Haas Public Service Leadership Fellow in 2018. Bailey also worked as a research assistant at the Berkeley Social Welfare School on a study examining judicial bias, and the Goldman School of Public Policy, where she conducted research on national loan regulation.
Bailey has been admitted to practice in the state of California since 2022.
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- Shareholder
- Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
- Lawyer Limelight
- San Francisco / Shareholder
- Senior Contributing Editor for the Securities Arbitration Commentator 's Securities Litigation Alert
- Shareholder / San Francisco
Ben Suter joined Keesal, Young & Logan in 1982 and has been a shareholder in its San Francisco office since 1987. As an active litigator, Ben focuses on complex litigation, including the defense of financial services firms (broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, banks, hedge funds, underwriters, insurers) and their employees in court, in arbitration, and in regulatory proceedings. As part of his employment practice, Ben frequently defends employers in wage and hour class actions and is active in cases involving claims for discrimination, harassment, defamation, breach of contract, unfair competition and related causes of action. Ben also defends attorneys in legal malpractice cases involving allegations of wrongdoing related to transactional work, courtroom competence, and professional responsibility. Over the past 37 years, Ben has developed substantial litigation and subject matter expertise defending licensed professionals, entrepreneurs, and senior executives in essentially every type of business dispute involving securities, malpractice, trusts, and employment issues.
Ben has handled numerous cases involving Ponzi schemes, public offerings, broker-dealer sales practices, real estate sales, condominium developments, sales of businesses, dissolution of partnerships, and the like, predicated on claims of fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, bad faith conduct, elder abuse, unfair business practices, negligence, and related statutory claims under federal and state laws. Ben has defended over 60 class actions, "mass" actions, and private attorney general actions involving claims under various federal and state securities laws and consumer protection laws, including a complex municipal bond class action in federal court involving class members from 24 states that settled after the jury trial commenced (see Cromeans v. Morgan Keegan & Co., 859 F.3d 558 (8th Cir. 2017).
Ben has also tried or arbitrated to conclusion approximately 100 cases in California, New York, Hawaii, Arizona, Minnesota, and Oregon. Those cases included jury trials and bench trials in federal and state courts, and arbitrations before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA"), the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"), the National Association of Securities Dealers ("NASD"), the Pacific Stock Exchange ("PSE"), the American Arbitration Association ("AAA"), and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC"). Ben represents securities clients in a variety of regulatory matters brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), by State Securities Regulators, and by FINRA's Department of Enforcement, many of which involve cutting edge legal issues affecting the securities industry. In addition, Ben has obtained client vindication before FINRA's National Adjudicatory Council ("NAC"). Ben has also handled cases in Alaska, Florida, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, Texas, Guam, and Saipan, and has successfully argued appellate cases at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, at the California Court of Appeal, and at the Hawaii Supreme Court.
Ben is a Senior Contributing Editor for the Securities Arbitration Commentator's Securities Litigation Alert and provides weekly analyses and commentary for the publication (www.saclitigation.com). In 2017, Lawdragon published a profile on Ben's career in its Lawyer Limelights series. (View Lawdragon Profile.) Ben participated in California Lawyer's Roundtable Series on class actions that addressed the continued evolution of class action jurisprudence in the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate court decisions. (View Roundtable Article.)
Ben has served as a panelist and/or speaker on presentations to FINRA and to the IBC Mutual Fund Compliance Conference, and has made numerous legal and compliance presentations to Wall Street management and employees. He is a member of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association ("SIFMA") Legal & Compliance section and has served as an arbitrator for the National Futures Association ("NFA"). Ben has been a biographee in various Who's Who publications for the past two decades and is a 2017 Lifetime Achievement Inductee. He was selected by his peers for a dozen consecutive years as being among the top five percent of all Northern California attorneys, as recognized by Thomson Reuters's Super Lawyers Magazine.
As a dual citizen of the United States and Switzerland, Ben grew up in California and in Europe. After attending schools in France, Switzerland, and Austria, Ben attended the University of California, Santa Barbara where he obtained his B.A. in philosophy in 1978. He graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1982, after serving as Articles Editor for the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. Ben is a member of the State Bars of California (1982), Arizona (1983), and Hawaii (1984). He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court (1987), as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1982) and the Eighth Circuit (2013), and all of the United States District Courts in California, Arizona, and Hawaii. Ben has held a California Real Estate Broker license since 1986.
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Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Long Beach / Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder in the Long Beach
Bentley Stansbury is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. He currently serves on the firm's Executive Committee and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee.
Bentley has tried cases on both the plaintiff and defense side, with the majority of his practice focused on following areas:
Bentley Stansbury is a shareholder in the Long Beach office of Keesal, Young & Logan, where his practice centers on financial services litigation. Each year from 2007 to 2015, Stansbury was recognized by Law & Politics Magazine as one of Southern ...read more
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Long Beach / Shareholder
- Shareholder / Long Beach
Bryce Cullinane is a Shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. His practice includes a broad range of civil litigation in state and federal courts (including federal bankruptcy court) and before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), as well as providing advice to various corporate clients.
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Job Titles:
- Associate / Long Beach
- Long Beach / Associate
Cheryl Chang received her J.D. from Pepperdine School of Law in 2016, where she was elected to the Order of Barristers. While at Pepperdine, Cheryl also earned her master's degree in dispute resolution (M.D.R.) from the Straus Institute, she was a staff member on the Pepperdine Law Review and competed in two inter-school trial competitions as a member of the Pepperdine Trial Team. Cheryl was an extern with the Straus Institute's Investor Advocacy Clinic and was a law clerk with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority ("FINRA").
Before law school, Cheryl graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in business administration with a concentration in corporate finance and a minor in international relations. Cheryl spent six and a half years working in the Wealth Management Industry.
A significant part of Cheryl's practice is focused on securities litigation. As part of her securities practice, Cheryl has experience defending claims for breach of contract, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, suitability-related claims, negligence, negligent supervision, fraud, violation of NASD and NYSE and FINRA Rules, and violation of the Securities Exchange Act and related state statutes.
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Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Lawyer Limelight
- San Francisco / Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / San Francisco
Chris Stecher is a shareholder in Keesal, Young & Logan's San Francisco office. Since joining Keesal, Young & Logan in September 2001, Chris has worked in most of the firm's practice areas, and he currently focuses on securities, employment, and general business litigation. Chris has extensive experience defending brokerage firms and financial advisors in cases involving customer complaints and has represented clients in securities arbitration forums, such as the NASD, the NYSE, and the PCX (now combined into one forum, FINRA). He represents employers in all aspects of employment litigation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as in arbitration and before state agencies. Chris' employment practice includes representation of clients in wrongful termination, employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, compensation, breach of contract, and unfair competition cases, as well as wage and hour class actions and collective actions. Chris also handles litigation between businesses, including disputes regarding restrictive covenants, trade secrets, defamation, employee raiding, unfair competition, trademark infringement, insurance coverage, property development, breach of contract, and other business conduct.
Chris has experience in all phases of litigation, from pre-suit investigation, to discovery, to dispositive motions and resolution through trial and arbitration. He also has handled appellate briefing before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and argued before the California Court of Appeal. Apart from his litigation practice, Chris regularly advises clients in areas such as employee discipline, employee compensation and benefits, non-compete laws, wage and hour issues, leaves of absence, and compliance with other local, state, and federal laws. Chris also serves on the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee, which guides and implements the firm's goals of promoting diversity within the firm and throughout the legal community.
Chris' trial and arbitration practice focuses on the following:
Securities Litigation: Chris represents broker-dealer firms and other licensed individuals in the securities industry. Chris has handled scores of securities arbitrations and has personally arbitrated approximately two dozen cases to completion. He has defended a variety of cases, including complex product cases, as well as cases involving claims for suitability, churning, fraud, negligence, violation of federal and state securities laws, breach of contract, elder abuse and breach of fiduciary duty.
Employment/Class Actions: As part of his employment practice, Chris defends employers in state and federal courts, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving claims for personal injury, discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, breach of contract, defamation, indemnification, whistleblower, and various wage and hour and unfair competition claims, including class action, collective action, and representative claims. Chris also regularly advises clients regarding compliance with employment laws, rules and regulations, including employee privacy laws, wage and hour laws, and issues involving employee hiring and discipline.
Business Litigation/Unfair Business Practices: Chris represents institutions and individuals in a variety of industries in connection with the movement of employees between competitors and in resolving other business disputes. Chris has represented clients primarily in California state and federal court in lawsuits involving trade secret misappropriation, employee non-solicitation and non-competition covenants, fiduciary duty and duty of loyalty claims, trademark infringement, as well as statutory and common law unfair competition claims. Chris also advises clients on these topics.
Chris graduated from Stanford University in 1996 with an A.B. degree in public policy. After spending two years teaching fourth graders and coaching basketball in the inner city of Chicago, Chris attended law school and graduated magna cum laude from the University of San Francisco School of Law in June 2001. While in law school, Chris served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Saundra Brown Armstrong of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Chris was admitted to the California Bar in December 2001 and the Washington State Bar in October 2015.
Chris was recognized in the Northern California Super Lawyers magazine as one of the "Northern California Rising Stars" in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 and has been selected as a "Super Lawyer" in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2021 and 2022. Chris was also named to the "Nation's Most Powerful Employment Attorneys-Up-and-Comers" list by Human Resources Executive ("HRE") magazine and Lawdragon in June 2019. Since 2020, Chris has been recognized by Lawdragon as a Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyer. In early 2021, Chris was selected as one of America's Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® for 2020. Chris received that designation again for 2021 and 2022.
Chris is a member of San Francisco's St. Thomas More Society and volunteers as a coach for local youth sports, especially baseball and basketball. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federal Bar Association's Northern District of California Chapter (including as Treasurer in 2023) and on the Board of Directors of California ChangeLawyers, a statewide foundation that seeks to increase diversity, equity and inclusion in the legal profession and empower the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists. Chris lives in San Francisco with his wife and five children.
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KYL congratulates San Francisco Shareholder Chris Stecher, who has been elected Vice President of the Federal Bar Association, Northern District of California Chapter. The 2021 elected Officers include: President: Anne Voigts President-Elect: Monique ...
Job Titles:
- Director of Information Security / Long Beach
- Long Beach / Director of Information Security
Christopher Almaraz is the Director of Information Security (InfoSec) with Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL) in its Long Beach office. Christopher has over 14 years of experience in InfoSec and Litigation Support technology, and he is a member of KYL's Privacy & Data Security practice group. He is certified by EC-Council as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) and by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). He is also a Metasploit Pro Certified Specialist (MPCS).
Christopher works closely with client InfoSec and Legal Operations teams in the Technology, Banking, Healthcare, and Maritime sectors. He serves as the lead InfoSec consultant to the firm's attorneys and clients, developing solutions for data security and business resiliency. He also works closely with KYL's technology partners and industry professionals on Standard Information Gathering (SIG) Assessments, providing insights on evolving security standards for organizational policies and procedures. Additionally, in his role as an MPCS, Christopher administers penetration testing and vulnerability assessments of infrastructure security.
Christopher is a member of InfraGard, a public-private partnership between private sector professionals and the FBI. His active participation in this and other knowledge-sharing groups provides continuous education on the latest cyber-crime prevention and Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) defense.
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Privacy & Data Security
Education
B.S. (Network Technology)
Certifications
CIPT (Certified Information Privacy Technologist) - IAPP
CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker) - EC-Council
MPCS (Metasploit Pro Certified Specialist)
Memberships
InfraGard
Job Titles:
- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
Christopher Cammiso is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. His practice includes a broad range of civil litigation matters, representing clients in healthcare, securities, employment, and maritime cases. Chris is also certified in Mediation by the National Conflict Resolution Center.
Chris has experience representing providers in complex healthcare litigation matters involving the CARES Act, ERISA, and claim reimbursement issues. In his securities practice, Chris defends financial firms and advisors against a variety of claims in both judicial and arbitration forums. Chris also represents employers in judicial, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving claims for discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, breach of contract, and other employment-related claims.
Chris received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law, with a concentration in corporate law. While in law school, Chris worked part-time at the country's largest independent broker-dealer, resolving a wide variety of securities complaints. He also served as a student attorney for the Entrepreneurship Clinic, providing legal assistance to local start-ups and non-profits. As a member of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team, Chris was selected to compete at the Vis Moot in Vienna, where his team advanced to the elimination rounds from a field of nearly 500 schools from across the world. In his Legal Research & Writing course, Chris earned an award for best oral advocate.
A first-generation college student, Chris received his B.A. from the University of California Santa Barbara with a double major in English and Philosophy. He spent a semester studying at the University of Cape Town in South Africa, where he also taught English at nearby townships. Chris worked part-time during undergrad at a construction litigation firm, then an estate planning firm upon graduation, prior to attending law school on a Dean's Scholarship.
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- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
Connor Trafton is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office, and is admitted to practice before all California state and federal courts. His practice focuses on civil litigation, representing clients in securities, employment, maritime, and products liability matters. Connor received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. While at UCLA, Connor was elected to the Order of Barristers, a nationwide honors society recognizing students demonstrating outstanding ability in oral advocacy. He also achieved top-3 finishes in three different nationwide trial advocacy competitions while at UCLA.
Connor has experience analyzing and responding to cargo casualty and longshoreman personal injury matters on behalf of insurers, as well as providing cargo shippers with advice on environmental issues and import/export procedures.
In Connor's securities practice, he represents financial services firms, registered representatives, and registered investment advisors both in court and in FINRA arbitration proceedings. He has defended clients against claims of fraud, suitability, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, and violations of state and federal securities laws. His experience includes defending claims involving publicly-traded equities and options, and other alternative or private placement investments.
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- Long Beach / Paralegal
- Paralegal / Long Beach
- Paralegal in Keesal Young & Logan 's Long Beach
Danielle Jarvis is a Paralegal in Keesal Young & Logan's Long Beach office. Danielle's background in Personal Injury litigation and her passion for utilizing technology in the legal field has provided a strong foundation for her work at KYL. Danielle was born and raised in Southern California, and graduated from California State University Long Beach with a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy. She is currently pursuing her MBA in Finance at Santa Clara University. Danielle lives in Newport Beach with her dog Eddie.
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Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Member of KYL 's Executive Committee
- Member of the Firm
- Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
David has devoted his 25-year career to litigation and trial practice focusing on commercial and consumer finance, mortgage banking, and creditors' rights. From running portfolios of thousands of cases, managing dozens of professionals for the largest banks in the world, to representing individuals in consumer lending disputes, David leverages his litigation and trial experience, business-minded approach, and deep knowledge of the law, to his clients' strategic advantage. David's commitment to understanding his clients' businesses and their goals, his belief in effective communication, minimizing risk, and practical problem solving make him a trusted advisor and advocate for his clients.
A shareholder practicing from Keesal, Young & Logan's (KYL) Long Beach, San Francisco, and Seattle offices, David has earned recognitions from multiple legal industry groups, including LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell's "AV® Preeminent™" Peer Review Rating, inclusion in Southern California Best Lawyers in America, and being named to the inaugural Law Dragon "500 Leading Litigators in America." David is also a Fellow of the highly selective national trial lawyer's honor society, Litigation Counsel of America.
David is a member of the firm's privacy and data security law practice and is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals in United States Privacy Law (CIPP/US). His work includes advising clients on navigating the increasingly complex framework of data security and privacy regulations in both planning and post-breach scenarios.
David is a member of KYL's Executive Committee and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and he has been actively involved in leading the firm's alternative pricing and technology initiatives since 2010. David regularly counsels clients and industry groups on issues related to emerging areas of risk and opportunity at the intersection of legal precedent and the promise of new technology. David has presented continuing legal education seminars and executive education on cybersecurity, risk management, distributed ledger technology and bankruptcy and creditor's rights.
Keesal Young & Logan shareholder David Piper, or "trail boss" as his brothers called him growing up, is a problem-solver by nature. That's what drew him to Keesal Young. The firm is built on finding practical, business-minded solutions to client matters, and ...
Job Titles:
- Counsel to Keesal
- Long Beach / of Counsel
- of Counsel / Long Beach
Liz Kendrick is of counsel to Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Liz maintains a civil litigation practice with an emphasis in insurance-related matters. Her practice involves analysis of insurance coverage issues in connection with virtually all types of insurance disputes. She has experience with all forms of insurance, including environmental liability, employment practices liability, D&O, E&O, CGL, products liability, property/casualty, media, life, health, and disability.
Liz graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, with a B.A. degree in 1982. She received her J.D. degree from Loyola Law School Los Angeles in 1985. She was on the Dean's Honor List at both institutions and received the Jessup Moot Court Best Brief Award at Loyola. Liz also studied comparative law at Oxford University, England.
Liz has over thirty years of civil litigation experience. Since joining Keesal, Young & Logan in 1989, she has handled insurance coverage and professional liability claims. She has litigated to conclusion over 200 errors and omissions claims against insurance agents, including property/casualty, life, health, disability agents, surplus lines brokers and London brokers, many of these claims involving exposure in excess of $1 million. Liz has assisted carriers in coverage analysis and has drafted insurance policies. She has also assisted insured in disputes with carriers. In addition to her insurance practice, Liz has handled securities cases for many Wall Street brokerage houses and defended clients in general business/contract disputes, maritime matters, products liability, and personal injury claims. She has served as lead counsel in numerous trials (state and federal court) and arbitrations.
Liz has lectured on Avoiding Insurance Agent/Broker Malpractice. She has served as a Judge Pro Tem in the Los Angeles Judicial District. She is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in California. Liz is also active in the local community and she volunteers assisting non-profit organizations dedicated to the rehabilitation and release of injured and sick wild birds and marine mammals.
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- Long Beach / Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / Long Beach
Job Titles:
- Long Beach / Senior Trial Counsel
- Senior Trial Counsel / Long Beach
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Executive Committee
- Shareholder
- Chairman of the Firm 's Executive Committee
- Long Beach / Shareholder and Chair of Executive Committee Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Chair of Executive Committee Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / Long Beach
Esther Cho is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan. Esther is the Chair of the firm's Executive Committee and also sits on its Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Esther's practice focuses on securities, employment, and mortgage banking litigation, and she has defended financial services firms, with particular emphasis on securities broker-dealers, in judicial and arbitration proceedings. She has handled hundreds of cases filed in state and federal court and before securities arbitration forums such as the FINRA, NASD, NYSE, PCX, JAMS, and AAA. In addition, she has represented institutions and individuals in connection with regulatory enforcement investigations.
Esther's practice also includes the defense of mortgage banking claims, particularly claims involving individual lending transactions. Esther acts as counsel with respect to a wide variety of matters including both origination and servicing of loans. Esther's mortgage banking experience includes defending claims of wrongful foreclosure and fraud, claims involving promised or failed loan modifications, unfair business practices, RESPA, TILA, and FDCPA claims, lien priority disputes, and misapplication of payment allegations.
As part of her employment practice, Esther defends employers in judicial, arbitration, and administrative proceedings. In representing employers, Esther has defended cases involving claims of wrongful termination, constructive discharge, defamation, retaliation, breach of contract, discrimination, harassment, failure to pay wages, violations of unfair competition laws, and violations of the California Labor Code.
Esther handles appellate briefing and has argued before the California Courts of Appeal. Esther's unreported appellate cases include Cole v. Chase, 2015 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 7353 (Cal. 2d App. Oct. 13, 2015), and Pearlman v. Prudential Sec., 2004 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1376 (Cal. 2d App. Feb. 13, 2004).
Esther regularly represents and consults with clients on a wide variety of general business and litigation matters, including most recently a sizable mechanic's lien case in a bankruptcy action. Esther was recognized by Law & Politics Magazine as one of the Southern California legal community's "Rising Stars" from 2006 to 2010. Esther also currently serves on Keesal, Young & Logan's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Esther also sits on the advisory board of Community of Legal Interns (ourcli.com). CLI's mission is to "educate, empower and establish future leaders in the rapidly changing legal ecosystem . . . and create a community-based movement to connect students and employers committed to increasing diversity, inclusion and innovation in the legal industry."
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KYL Executive Committee Chair Esther Cho sat down with Elevate Services CEO Liam Brown to discuss law firm leadership, culture, diversity, and her personal story. Listen (and read the transcript) here.
Job Titles:
- Associate / San Francisco
- Associate With Keesal
- San Francisco / Associate
Gabriel Lee-Sanchez is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its San Francisco office. His practice includes a broad range of civil litigation matters in the securities, maritime, real estate, and employment areas. Gabriel also advises employer clients regarding compliance with employment laws, and advises broker-dealer clients with respect to customer complaints against financial advisors and works to successfully resolve such complaints.
Gabriel graduated law school in 2022 with dual degrees. He graduated cum laude with a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He also graduated magna cum laude with a Master of Laws degree (LL.M.) in European Law from University of Paris, Panthéon-Assas. While in law school, Gabriel served as Articles Editor for Hastings Law Journal. Gabriel also served as a teaching assistant, received certificates in legal research and negotiation & dispute resolution, and earned multiple CALI and Witkin awards for academic excellence. Prior to law school, Gabriel earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley.
Gabriel was born and raised in Nicaragua, but has also lived in Spain, France, and the U.S. He enjoys traveling, and speaks English, Spanish, and conversational French.
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Employment Litigation & Advisory
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Seattle / Shareholder
- Shareholder / Seattle
Igor Stadnik is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Seattle office. His practice focuses on a broad range of cases in state and federal courts, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and various other regulatory agencies as well as advisory matters. From 2018-2021, Igor was selected to the Washington Rising Star list by Super Lawyers Magazine, a designation earned by less than 2.5 percent of attorneys in a geographic region.
Job Titles:
- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
James Kritenbrink is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. His practice includes a broad range of civil litigation matters for financial services and maritime clients. James is also involved in the real estate and business transactional group as well as the privacy & data security practice group.
Before law school, James worked as an estimator and project manager for a demolition subcontractor in the L.A. Basin. He managed projects inside LAX and the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. For his undergraduate studies, James earned his B.S. in construction management from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering. While pursuing his B.S., he re-founded the Kappa Sigma chapter at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and grew it to nearly 90 members. James served multiple terms as president for this organization.
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- EDiscovery Specialist
- Member of the Duke Law - EDRM Technology Assisted Review
- Paralegal and Certified EDiscovery Specialist / San Francisco
- San Francisco / Paralegal and Certified EDiscovery Specialist
- Specialist
Jennifer Clamme is a Paralegal and Certified eDiscovery Specialist (CEDS) in Keesal Young & Logan's San Francisco office. Jennifer serves as a project manager and eDiscovery consultant to the firm's attorneys and clients.
Jennifer has been involved in the development of industry standards for much of her career. Jennifer is a member of the Duke Law-EDRM Technology Assisted Review (TAR) Standards Project where she, along with other legal experts and the EDRM Team, have developed TAR Guidelines to provide guidance on best practices based on the EDRM TAR framework. In 2013, Jennifer was an exam writer for the Organization of Legal Professionals' Certified eDiscovery Professional (CeDP) exam. In 2010, Jennifer served as the Trial Assistant for the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Masters Series Conference.
In 2017, Jennifer was nominated for the International Legal Technology Association's Distinguished Peer Awards - Young Professional of the Year for her advocacy and assistance in developing KYL's CEDS Consultation Meeting (CCM) initiative. The initiative systematically integrates jurisdictional rules, client-specific guidelines for eDiscovery, and KYL's eDiscovery expertise at the outset of every litigation matter.
Jennifer began her paralegal career as the sole litigation and trial paralegal for a boutique firm in Southern California specializing in business litigation, transactions, and estate planning. There, Jennifer testified in a jury trial regarding an audit of the opposition's document production after discovering the spoliation of evidence. After moving to San Francisco, she became the lead litigation support and trial paralegal for a firm specializing in professional malpractice and premises liability.
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KYL eDiscovery Specialist, Jennifer Clamme, honored to serve as a contributing author of the Duke Law-EDRM Technology Assisted Review (TAR) Standards Project. As a contributing author, Jennifer, along with other legal experts and the EDRM Team, developed TAR ...
Job Titles:
- Shareholder
- Long Beach / Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / Long Beach
Jodi Cohen is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Jodi currently serves on the firm's Executive Committee and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Jodi primarily handles employment, securities, and insurance litigation. She is licensed in California, but has handled or is handling matters in Nevada, Washington, Texas, Idaho, Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, Illinois, and New York.
As part of her employment practice, Jodi has defended employers in judicial, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving claims for discrimination (sex, race, age, ethnic origin, and disability), harassment, wrongful termination, wrongful interference, whistleblower (including Dodd-Frank and Sarbanes-Oxley), retaliation, employee raiding, unfair competition, defamation, wage and hour, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, and a variety of other employment-related claims. She also regularly counsels clients regarding compliance with employment laws, rules and regulations, including handling harassment and discrimination investigations as well as experience conducting other employment work-related investigations, hiring and termination issues, privacy issues and the preparation of employment manuals, personnel policies, and various employment agreements. In addition, Jodi has given seminars on a variety of employment law topics, including, but not limited to, sexual harassment, discrimination, and the hiring and termination of employees.
Jodi also has significant experience in securities and general business litigation. She has represented stock brokerage and investment banking firms and banks and their employees in a wide array of litigation and regulatory matters, including, but not limited to, claims for breach of contract, unfair business practices, violation of the Business and Professions Code, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, suitability-related claims, churning, negligence and negligent supervision, negligent and tortious interference with contract or economic advantage, involving Ponzi schemes and violations of federal and state securities laws.
Jodi has over 29 years of civil litigation experience. In addition, she has handled various insurance and professional liability claims. She has litigated various errors and omissions claims against insurance agents.
Jodi has handled securities litigation, insurance litigation and employment matters in federal and state courts, and in arbitrations before the FINRA (and its predecessors), PCX, AAA, and JAMS.
Jodi joined Keesal, Young & Logan in 1990.
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- Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight
- Lawyer Limelight
- San Francisco / Shareholder
- Shareholder / San Francisco
John Giffin has been an attorney with Keesal, Young & Logan since 1979 and a shareholder in the firm since 1984. John is the senior maritime shareholder in the firm's San Francisco office and supervises marine work throughout the firm.
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- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
John Mysliwiec is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. His practice focuses on civil litigation, representing clients in securities, employment, and maritime matters.
John received his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law. While in law school, John externed for the Honorable Jill L. Burkhardt of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. He was the Vice President of the Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Team, where he competed at the Vis Moot (East) in Hong Kong. He also was a research and teaching assistant and has been published in the California Regulatory Law Reporter.
Prior to law school, John taught English in Liaoning, China and then junior high history in Indianapolis, Indiana through Teach for America. John graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. in political science where he played on the Johns Hopkins Men's Basketball Team.
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- Officer
- Partner
- Resident
- Shareholder
Jon Zinke is a graduate of the State University of New York Maritime College and Brooklyn Law School. He is admitted to practice before the State Courts of New York, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Supreme Court, and was a registered foreign lawyer with the Law Society of Hong Kong from 1982 to 2022. He holds an unlimited Oceangoing United States Coast Guard Chief Mate's License and sailed as a deck officer on various United States flag vessels for five years prior to commencing his legal career in 1980.
Jon was associated with a maritime firm in New York from 1980 to 1985 when he transferred to that firm's Hong Kong office as resident partner. In 1997 Jon joined Keesal, Young & Logan and became resident partner of the firm's Hong Kong office. Jon returned to the U.S. in 2023 and works with the U.S. offices of the firm in the West Coast.
Jon provides advice to the firm's clients in the Far East regarding various maritime and commercial disputes involving United States law and provides advice and assistance to law firms throughout the United States on matters involving Asia. He is also actively involved in handling maritime and commercial arbitration disputes in New York and Asia.
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Jon Zinke is described as an "absolutely terrific shipping lawyer" by sources. He is a US-qualified practitioner who has a stellar reputation for his work in the litigation and arbitration spheres.
On Friday, Oct. 21, 2011, KYL Partner Jon Zinke will speak at the annual maritime seminar, "To The Future," presented by the Hong Kong branch of The Nautical Institute. The 2011 seminar will address the key issues of the future of the Port, managing future ...
Keesal, Young & Logan partner Jon Zinke, from the firm's Hong Kong office, will be featured in the forthcoming editions of 'Chambers Global' and 'Chambers Asia Pacific', honored with other "Leaders in Their Field" for his commitment to litigation in ...
Keesal, Young & Logan is proud to announce that its Hong Kong office was recommended by 2012 Legal 500 Asia Pacific for its shipping/maritime practice area, and that resident KYL partner Jon Zinke was honored in this referral guide's editorial section for his ...
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- Long Beach / Paralegal
- Paralegal / Long Beach
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- Long Beach / Senior Associate
- Senior Associate / Long Beach
- Senior Associate With Keesal
Joshua Norton is a senior associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Joshua has handled a wide spectrum of business disputes and civil litigation matters, but his practice focuses on mortgage and community banking litigation, bankruptcy, appellate, maritime, and securities litigation. Joshua is admitted to practice before all California state and federal courts.
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- Shareholder
- Chairman of the Board of the Sam Taylor Foundation
- Lawyer Limelight
- San Francisco / Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / San Francisco
Julie Taylor is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its San Francisco office and is admitted to practice in California and Washington. Julie has served on the firm's Executive Committee and currently serves on its Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Julie focuses on employment litigation, and regularly defends employers in judicial, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving claims for discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation (including Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower claims), defamation, invasion of privacy, violation of federal and state leave laws, and breach of contract. Her practice includes the defense of wage and hour proceedings, including class and mass actions alleging violations of overtime and other wage and hour laws in both state and federal court. Julie regularly advises clients regarding compliance with employment laws, rules and regulations, harassment and discrimination investigations, hiring and termination issues, privacy issues, strategies for dealing with "problem" employees, and the preparation of employment manuals and various agreements. Julie regularly speaks on a variety of employment law topics.
Julie practices across a broad range of industries, including financial services, technology, healthcare, retail, maritime, oil and gas, and hospitality. Julie serves on the firm's diversity and inclusion committee and is significantly involved in the firm's nationally-recognized eDiscovery, technology and cybersecurity initiatives. In addition, Julie works closely with the firm's Compliance, Operations and Data Control Advisory (CODA) Team.
Julie served on the Board of Directors of the California Bar Foundation from 2012 to 2018 and, on January 1, 2015, began serving a two-year term as President of the Board. The California Bar Foundation is the center of philanthropy for California's lawyers, a major force in diversity efforts for the bar, and a leader in ensuring access to justice for all Californians. Under Julie's leadership, the California Bar Foundation became California's largest independent source of statewide law school diversity scholarships and pipeline program grants, and instituted a first of its kind postgraduate legal fellowship placing diverse lawyers in some of the most underserved parts of the state.
Julie is the Chairman of the Board of The Sam Taylor Foundation, which provides mental wellness education and free mental health counseling to teens and young adults.
Examples of recent employment cases for which Julie was lead counsel include:
Defense award in Illinois on claims alleging age discrimination and retaliation; affirmative recovery of over $900,000 on counterclaim.
Defense award on claims of wrongful constructive termination and retaliation;
Defense award in case alleging breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, wrongful termination in violation of public policy and defamation seeking damages of over $15 million.
Defense award in case alleging wrongful termination in violation of public policy and defamation.
Defense award in compensation dispute.
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Julie Taylor thrives in the "emotion-based practice" that is employment litigation, a specialty she developed after a period focused on securities litigation. Taylor represents a wide range of employers as a San Francisco-based shareholder at Keesal Young & ...read more
KYL Shareholder Julie Taylor has been invited to speak at the 2019 SIFMA Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar
Keesal, Young & Logan Shareholder Julie Taylor has been invited to speak at the 2019 Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Compliance and Legal Society Annual Seminar. Julie will be participating in the "Avoiding Pitfalls in the ...read more
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- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With
- Long Beach / Associate
Kate Handy is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Her practice focuses on a broad range of civil litigation matters in arbitration and state and federal court, with an emphasis in employment and securities litigation.
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- Long Beach / Senior Paralegal
- Senior Paralegal / Long Beach
Leslie obtained her B.A. degree in Allied Legal Service (pre-law) from The University of Central Florida in May 1986.
She moved to California in August 1986 and started her employment as a Paralegal with KYL in December 1986.
She was promoted to Senior Paralegal in December 1996.
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- Long Beach / Records and Office Services Manager
- Office Services Manager for Keesal
- Records and Office Services Manager / Long Beach
Leslie Jenkins is the Records and Office Services Manager for Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL), a role which involves him in Information Governance initiatives and management of compliance with client guidelines and cost control in all of KYL's offices. Leslie received an associate degree with highest honors from the ABA accredited Paralegal Program at Cerritos College. He was also awarded a mediation certificate for participating in the Alternative Dispute Resolution program.
Leslie has received extensive training in Conflict of Interest avoidance and recognition. In addition, he has participated in compliance training regarding documents security and retention, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA regulations. Leslie also serves as the firm's back-up researcher and is proficient in Lexis and Westlaw databases.
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- Long Beach / Senior Paralegal
- Senior Paralegal / Long Beach
Lois Kallet began her career with Keesal, Young & Logan in 1980 as a paralegal and has held the title of Senior Paralegal since 1990. She has been an integral team member on hundreds of arbitrations and trials from inception through resolution. She focuses on securities, mortgage banking, and employment litigation.
Lois earned her B.A. in social ecology from the University of California, Irvine. She holds a COBOT software certification in Microsoft Excel and Adobe Pro and has had extensive training in LexisNexis, CaseMap, and Eclipse.
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Commercial & Residential Real Estate Lending Litigation
Job Titles:
- Associate / Long Beach
- Associate With Keesal
- Long Beach / Associate
Lucas Eduardo Garcia is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office, and is admitted to practice in the state of California. His practice focuses on a broad range of civil litigation matters in securities, employment and maritime. In Lucas' securities practice, he has represented financial services firms and registered investment advisors against claims that include fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, and suitability in both court and FINRA arbitration proceedings.
Lucas graduated with Distinction in General Scholarship from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in political science. Lucas received his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2021. While at UCLA, Lucas served as Treasurer on the Board of the Latinx Law Students Association.
Prior to attending Cal, Lucas founded and operated a small business with his father and brother to provide valet services to businesses across all industries in the West Los Angeles area. The company is still running today with Lucas' father and brother at the helm and breaking into new sectors of the service industry.
In Lucas' spare time, he enjoys volunteering at the Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law where he spent his 1L summer as a Law Student Intern serving vulnerable communities in Los Angeles. Lucas also is training to earn his Private Pilot Certification.
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- Executive Director and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / Long Beach
- Executive Director for Keesal
- Long Beach / Executive Director and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
Marilyn Whitcomb has been the Executive Director for Keesal, Young & Logan for over three decades and currently serves on the firm's Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Marilyn manages the business affairs of the firm including strategic planning and oversight in the areas of finance, general operations, real estate, and personnel.
Marilyn received her undergraduate degree (magna cum laude) from Olivet Nazarene University in Illinois and her MBA (cum laude) from California State University.
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- Director of Library Service / Long Beach
- Director of Library Service at Keesal
- Long Beach / Director of Library Service
Marilyn Wills has been the Director of Library Service at Keesal, Young & Logan (KYL) for over 20 years. She handles a broad range of requests for information and materials across the information spectrum and provides guidance and assistance in the use of electronic and print resources that have become an integral part of the extensive research necessary to effectively serve KYL's clients. Marilyn worked as an Information Specialist at Irell & Manella prior to assuming her current role. She is a graduate of the University of Toronto with degrees in political science and information science.
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- Associate / San Francisco
- Associate With Keesal
- San Francisco / Associate
Maya Barba is an associate with Keesal, Young & Logan in its San Francisco office. Her practice focuses on a broad range of civil litigation matters primarily in the employment, maritime, and securities areas. Maya typically defends clients in court and in arbitration and also advises clients on strategies to avoid litigation when possible.
Maya graduated cum laude from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 2021. While in law school, she served as Notes Editor for Hastings International and Comparative Law Review and was a member of the Women's Law Society. Maya earned the CALI Award for Excellence in Advanced Legal Research and the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, where she worked as a student attorney assisting clients with applications for asylum. In her Moot Court course, Maya earned the award for best oral advocate.
Prior to law school, Maya earned her B.A. in International Studies with an emphasis in Economics from the University of San Francisco. She studied abroad in Central America and graduated cum laude in 2016. Maya then spent nearly two years teaching English in Lampang, Thailand. Maya is an avid traveler who loves cooking, going to concerts and spending time outdoors. One of her proudest achievements is completing the Annapurna Circuit trek in Nepal in 2018.
Maya has been admitted to practice in the state of California since 2021.
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- Long Beach / Senior Paralegal
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- Shareholder
- Long Beach / Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
- Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee / Long Beach
Melanie Ronen is a shareholder with Keesal, Young & Logan in its Long Beach office. Her practice focuses primarily on employment litigation and advisory matters.
Melanie works closely with employers to problem solve a wide variety of issues that arise in the workplace. This includes providing advice on employment law and related topics such as disability and protected leaves, employee privacy, wage and hour considerations, workplace violence, and retaliation and whistleblower concerns, as well as counseling on hiring, promotion, demotion, and termination issues. Melanie also assists employers with drafting and review of employment manuals and various employment-related agreements, forms, policies, and plans. She conducts workplace investigations following complaints and allegations of harassment, discrimination, bullying, and other unlawful or unwanted conduct, and counsels employers on moving forward when such concerns arise. Beyond providing pure legal advice, Melanie also strives to provide common-sense strategies for handling and resolving workplace conflicts in an effort to avoid litigation if possible.
Often litigation is unavoidable. Melanie also regularly represents employers in judicial, arbitration, and administrative proceedings involving all manner of employment disputes, such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour (including class and mass actions, and PAGA claims), breach of contract, defamation, unfair competition, and trade secret and raiding claims. As with her employment advisory practice, Melanie seeks to achieve her clients' goals in the most pragmatic and cost-effective means possible.
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- Long Beach / Senior Trial Counsel
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- San Francisco / Associate
Hong Kong is a gateway to Asia with an international and diverse population and a style of its own. After 156 years of colonial rule under Britain, the territory reverted to Chinese sovereignty in July 1997 under the "one country, two systems" concept whereby Hong Kong was guaranteed to be able to maintain its capitalist society for a further 50 years.
Hong Kong has two official languages, English and Cantonese, the Chinese dialect spoken throughout Guangdong Province. Mandarin, the official language in the People's Republic of China, is increasingly spoken in Hong Kong. The population of Hong Kong is approximately 8.0 million people, some 95% of which are Chinese. There are approximately 60,000 American expatriates in Hong Kong. There is a common law legal system in Hong Kong with its own ordinances (many based on the English Acts of Parliament) and case law. When Hong Kong reverted to Chinese sovereignty, a Final Court of Appeals was established to take the place of appeals to Privy Council in London. Hong Kong still follows the British practice of a split legal profession where the solicitor deals with the client and then briefs a barrister to appear in court.
Hong Kong has been described by economist Milton Friedman as the "last laissez faire economy." Hong Kong's economy is based on free enterprise.
Hong Kong is consistently ranked the World's Freest Economy in the annual Index of Economic Freedom published by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. The small territory is now the eighth largest trading economy in the world and boasts one of the world's largest container ports in terms of container throughput. The airport is the busiest in the world in terms of airfreight tonnage handled. There are no restrictions on foreign exchange and the transfer of capital in or out of the territory. The Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 7.8/$ since 1983.
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- Long Beach / Shareholder and Executive Committee Member Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
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- San Francisco / Senior Counsel
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- Long Beach / Paralegal and Certified EDiscovery Specialist
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- San Francisco / Shareholder
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- Long Beach / Shareholder and Member of Diversity and Inclusion Committee
On September 22, 2016, Victor Escobar was presented Keesal, Young & Logan's 2016 California Bar Foundation Diversity Scholarship. Victor is the ninth recipient of KYL's Diversity Scholarship through the California Bar Foundation. KYL Shareholder and ...read more