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Green Card Lottery Facilitators, Inc. v. Cardservice International, Inc., LA Superior Court, No. BC 298724. First-chaired the defense of a national financial services entity in a class action asserting claims for fraud and unfair business practices. Winnowed the putative nationwide class of nearly 200,000 plaintiffs to a California-only settlement class of less than 1,300 plaintiffs and negotiated an extremely favorable settlement.
Job Titles:
- Legal Assistant / Los Angeles
Jennifer Altfeld Landau has nearly 25 years of experience handling complex class actions and other high-stakes civil litigation matters for clients, through trial and appeal. She has successfully defended prominent financial services institutions, health care organizations, accounting firms, and other large business entities in nationwide and statewide class and collective actions in a variety of legal areas, including consumer fraud, unfair business practices, employment, wage and hour, gender discrimination, and mergers and acquisition litigation. In addition to class and collective actions, Jennifer has substantial experience litigating business and commercial disputes, wrongful termination actions, and legal malpractice claims for mid-sized and smaller business entities. She also has represented bankruptcy trustees in a variety of adversary proceedings and appeals. In recent years, Jennifer has represented a number of different individuals claiming sexual assault, sexual discrimination, sexual harassment and/or wrongful termination. In addition, Jennifer has provided advice and counsel to leadership and in-house counsel on a wide range of legal issues. Jennifer has been repeatedly named to the Daily Journal's list of Top Women Lawyers in the State of California and consistently selected for inclusion in the Southern California Super Lawyers magazine, based on a vote of peers.
Jennifer Altfeld Landau has more than 25 years of experience handling complex class actions and other high-stakes civil litigation matters for prominent financial services institutions, health care organizations, accounting firms, and other corporate entities. She has experience in a variety of legal areas, including breach of contract, consumer fraud, unfair business practices, employment, wage and hour, legal malpractice, professional negligence, real estate, and mergers and acquisitions litigation. She has been repeatedly named to the Daily Journal's list of Top Women Lawyers in the State of California, most recently in 2014.
Mr. Reitman was general counsel to the chapter 11 trustee and a successor liquidating trust in this $500 million Ponzi scheme case. He was in charge of litigating approximately 300 adversary actions, resulting in the recovery of approximately $90 million and claims objections that eliminated hundreds of millions of dollars in claims against the estate.
John P. Reitman has represented chapter 7 and 11 trustees, creditors committees and secured and unsecured creditors in complex bankruptcy cases for more than thirty years. Through his extensive litigation activities, Mr. Reitman has achieved recoveries of well in excess of $100 million for bankruptcy estates, successfully defended actions seeking the recovery of tens of millions of dollars, and achieved hundreds of millions of dollars in claims reductions. In major bankruptcy cases, he has been responsible for negotiating and documenting the sale of numerous multi-million dollar assets. In addition, Mr. Reitman has investigated alleged bankruptcy crimes and made criminal referrals of suspected bankruptcy crimes to the Government that resulted in criminal charges.
Representative bankruptcy cases handled by Mr. Reitman include the following:
Monica Rieder began her career as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Christopher M. Klein, Chief Bankruptcy Judge, Eastern District of California. Ms. Rieder has extensive experience in bankruptcy cases, in which she represents Chapter 11 debtors, trustees, and secured lenders. Sample representations include the Chapter 11 debtors in In re Sunstone Components Group, Inc. and In re KSL Media, Inc.; the Chapter 7 trustees in In re APX Holdings, LLC and In re Fatburger Restaurants of California, Inc.; and the secured lender in In re Pacifica Mesa Studios, LLC.
Ms. Rieder also has an active practice in commercial and intellectual property matters, including drafting and analyzing patent license agreements and providing advice regarding potential infringement and product defect claims and compliance with state and federal laws.
Ms. Rieder was admitted to practice in the State of California in 2009. She is an active member of the Financial Lawyers Conference and the Los Angeles Bankruptcy Forum.
Ms. Rieder graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a B.A. in Classics in 2005. Her undergraduate education included a year at Royal Holloway, University of London. She received a J.D. (cum laude) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2008.
I have been a corporate bankruptcy lawyer and litigator for 30 years. I spent the first two years of my practice at Latham & Watkins, LLP and then the next 14 years at McDermott, Will & Emery LLP. I have most enjoyed the past 14 years practicing at my own firm as I weathered the ups and downs of running a small business first-hand. My clients have included fortune 50 companies, some of the wealthiest people in the world, and some with neither of those distinctions.
My Chapter 11 debtor representations have been extensive - the most recognizable likely was my filing of FirstFed Financial Corp. during the mortgage lending financial crisis. My Chapter 11 Committee representations have included the representation of very large creditor groups - the most recognizable but certainly not the biggest was my representation of the Creditors' Committee in In re Fatburger Restaurants. My representation of fiduciaries, in large cases such as In re Point Center Financial, have required me to pursue a variety of claims, including based on D&O and fraudulent transfer liability, in cases that sometimes require me to argue in the United States Courts of Appeal. I have represented some of the largest hospital chains, manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, food companies, insurance companies and banks in this country.
Rodger M. Landau is the Managing Partner of Landau Law LLP. He represents clients in bankruptcy cases as well as in a variety of business disputes raising issues of bankruptcy law, commercial law, contract law, ERISA law, health care law, insurance law, land use law, and real estate law.