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Bird Marella is proud to announce the selection of Principal Gopi Panchapakesan and associates Alexis Wiseley and Alexander Tran to the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD) 2022 Fellows and Pathfinder Programs. The LCLD Fellows and Pathfinders programs are designed for diverse, talented, early to mid-career attorneys. The programs offer ...
Bird Marella is pleased to share our 2021 Year in Review and a special celebration of our firm’s 40th anniversary. In our annual report, you will find notable highlights from the past year’s case victories and meet the incredible people whom we’ve elevated or welcomed to our team. To commemorate ...
In a case charging over thirty individuals in a 100 felony count criminal health care fraud case, a Bird Marella team consisting of attorneys Benjamin Gluck, Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk, and Naomi Solomon won the right to examine a District Attorney Investigator on the issue of whether the District Attorney’s Office had cooperated too closely ...
Bird Marella is pleased to announce attorney elevations effective January 1, 2022: Fanxi Wang and Oliver Rocos have been elevated to Principals of the firm; Shoshana Bannett has been elevated to Senior Counsel; and Kate Shin has been elevated to Counsel. Managing Principal Paul Chan affirmed, “We are proud of the ...
Principal Gopi K. Panchapakesan has been selected to join the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) 2022 Fellowship Class of the SABA Leadership Institute. Previously serving as Co-President of SABA’s Southern California chapter, Gopi is one of sixteen Fellows chosen for the highly competitive leadership program. The Institute offers an innovative leadership program designed to advance the ...
Principal Benjamin N. Gluck, along with attorneys Naomi Solomon and Christopher Lee, achieved a significant and favorable outcome on behalf of their client in a criminal case. The client is the owner of one of the country’s largest “fast fashion” wholesalers, and faced criminal charges of underpayment of tax and duty by $35 million and money laundering over $80 million. Bird Marella previously reached a resolution with the government that allows the company to ...
Bird Marella prevailed in a dispute with the U.S. Department of Justice regarding a subpoena to the firm’s client, the Los Angeles Angels, in which DOJ sought records of Bird Marella’s internal investigation and other material. U.S. District Judge Terry Means for the Northern District of Texas criticized the government ...
Principals Gary Lincenberg and Nicole Rodriguez Van Dyk will be featured speakers at the American Bar Association’s 36th National Institute on White Collar Crime. On October 27th, Lincenberg will join Andrea Griswold, Gary Naftalis, and moderator Antonia Apps in the Day 2 panel, “Securities Enforcement in 2021: From Banks to Big Tech?” to discuss recent enforcement actions by ...
Bird Marella was recognized as a “Highly Recommended” law firm in California, for the fourth time in a row, by Benchmark Litigation. The publication is the definitive guide to America’s leading litigation firms and attorneys and is the only publication to focus exclusively on U.S. litigation. Firms and attorneys are recognized based ...
Bird Marella attorneys Paul Chan and Thomas Freeman prevailed on appeal on behalf of the former owner of a General Motors dealership who was sued by the purchaser of his business. The dealership’s new owner sued for damages after assuming day-to-day management of the business claiming that it failed because of ...
