MY BIO COMMENTATOR, PUBLISHER, AND EDITOR: MARTIN S. FRIEDLANDER, ESQ. Rated by Martindale-Hubbell as (AV), its highest rating. I have practiced law in New York and California since 1963. I was a former senior partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, a national law firm. Prior to moving to California I was an in-house counsel for the New York Stock Exchange. I also worked at Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith and Walston & Co., prior to graduating law school. I received my legal education at: Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago (1962); Degree: J.D. Member- Law Review, Class Rank: Upper 15%, Academic Scholarship. I received my undergraduate degree from C.C.N.Y. in 1959 (B.B.A). I served in the United States Army after graduating law school. I was admitted to practice law in New York in 1963 and California in 1965. I am a member of all of the federal courts in California and New York. I was also admitted to the 5th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. I have been admitted to the US District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi, and the Western District of Texas. I have handled litigation in New York, California, Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Oregon, and New Mexico. Appellate cases that I have handled were published in the 5th Circuit, 9th Circuit, New Mexico, the appellate courts of California and the Supreme Court of California. At the New York Stock Exchange in New York City I prosecuted stock brokers and their firms for violations of the rules of the NYSE, SEC, and NASD. I have tried dozens of civil cases, both jury and non-jury. I have also handled transactional matters, mostly business contracts, forming partnerships, corporations, Limited Liability Companies, and limited partnerships. I specialized in complex transactional matters and complex litigation in almost all areas of the law, representing domestic and foreign clients. This included various real estate litigation (mechanic liens, stop notices, construction defects, contractual disputes between owner-contractor, contractor-subcontractor); landlord-tenant; workout litigation; lender liability; bad faith insurance, limited and general partnership litigation; corporate dissolutions; employment law; bankruptcy; commercial litigation; product liability; business torts; misappropriation of trade secrets; and other complex intellectual property and employment litigation. Some of my published decisions are: Volkswagon v. Resch (1984) 36 C.3d. 676, 205 C.R. 827; Lockwood v. Smigel (1971) 18 C.A. 3d. 800, 96 C.R. 289; Ippolito v. Municipal Court (1977) 67 C.A. 3d 682, 136 C.R. 795; Rives v. Franklin Life (5th Cir. 1986) 792 F. 2d. 1324; Rives v. Franklin Life (N.D. Miss. 1987) 664 F. Supp. 1025; Rochester Capital Leasing Corp. v. K & L Litho Corp. (1970) 13 CA3d 697; Pacific Inv. Co. v. Townsend (1976) 58 CA3d 1; Webb v. Superior Court, 225 Cal. App. 3d 990; In re Marriage of Egedi, 88 Cal. App. 4th 17; Lee v. Offenberg, 275 Cal. App. 2d 575; Williams v. Volkswagenwerk Aktiengesellschaft, 180 Cal. App. 3d 1244 ; Bogle v. Summit Investment Company, NM, No. 2005 NMCA -024. During my legal career I represented a corporation which had earlier entered into a joint venture agreement with two mainland Chinese government corporations to construct a 350-room hotel, office building, and shopping center complex in downtown Beijing China, which resulted in a multi-million dollar recovery. I also represented a major foreign car manufacturer for the purpose of collecting, and having collected, more than $100,000,000 in account receivables. I also secured a jury verdict on the life and accidental death policies on the life of a famous TV actor, Freddie Prinze, as well as several million dollar settlements from the various doctors who treated this TV actor. I obtained several significant bad faith insurance settlements from various insurance companies on the eve of trial. Secured a significant settlement from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, resulting from its wrongful destruction of an ice-skating rink at the World Trade Center in NYC, overcoming the defense of sovereign immunity asserted by the Port Authority. I am presently an active member of PLATO, an adjunct of the UCLA extension system, and still practice law. interests literature, history, law, politics, and current events.
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