Orange County

Our experienced team of creative problem-solvers finds success for a wide variety of client needs including business and commercial litigation, consumer protection and employment matters, environmental cost recovery litigation and regulatory and transactional matters, intellectual property, and Prop 65 compliance. Our clientele spans a multitude of sectors:

• Automotive

Shook Orange County attorneys have extensive experience in leading automotive trial class actions. They take a multidisciplinary approach to representing our clients. Shook lawyers frequently participate in industry workshops and technical training sessions to enhance their knowledge of accident and biomechanical reconstruction, failure mode analysis, component characteristics and performance. We represent companies that design and assemble automobiles, trucks, buses, motorcycles, ATVs, cranes, construction equipment, and specialized industrial and agricultural machines. Our work includes handling all types of product defect cases, including pattern litigation, and efficiently managing cases as regional or national counsel. Our automotive class action defense is tailored to the individual client and litigation goal. Striving to mitigate the risks of class actions before they start, we have successfully thwarted potential automotive class litigation by counseling on class waiver arbitration clauses. When litigation occurs, we usually get involved as soon as a CLRA letter or other pre-suit notice is received, and we defend our clients in state, multistate and nationwide class actions throughout the country.

Contacts
Janet Hickson
Naoki Kaneko 
Mayela Montenegro-Urch
Bobbie Hooper
Paulina Tran 
Brady O’Bryan 
Henry Adams 

Our Business Litigation Practice teams represent individuals, small and midmarket businesses and multinational companies in state, federal and administrative courts, from counseling through trial and appeal. Our Commercial Litigation Practice runs the gamut of contract disputes and business torts, in areas ranging from financial services and banking to design and construction, to telecommunications, health care, employment, real estate, and antitrust.

Contacts
Marc Miles
Kristy Schlesinger 
Laura Booth 

Eva Weiler
Bobbie Hooper
Gabriel Spooner 
Edward Danielyan 

Our Class action and Complex Litigation Group has a proven record of reducing the risks to our clients posed by complex litigation. Our attorneys have represented numerous Fortune 500 companies affected by legal actions targeting entire industries, including class actions and large numbers of individual cases aggregated under multidistrict litigation or state consolidation procedures. Utilizing the firm’s arsenal of veteran litigators and trial-support systems, our approach involves careful evaluation of each case to design a solution that minimizes the risks and burdens of litigation while maximizing the likelihood of a favorable resolution.

Contacts
Marc Miles

Eva Weiler
Naoki Kaneko 

Shook Orange County Employment Litigation attorneys represent corporate employers—including as national counsel for a number of Fortune 500 companies throughout the United States. Our approach is distinguished by our creative, cost-effective litigation strategies, and we often blur the traditional litigation specialty lines to offer clients the breadth of Shook's world-class litigation experience. Our attorneys focus on early case evaluation, effective motion practice and favorable summary judgment outcomes, as well as jury trials. In addition, this practice has extensive experience representing clients before the entire spectrum of quasi-judicial tribunals, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, U.S. Department of Labor, National Labor Relations Board, state and local administrative agencies, and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Contacts
Marc Miles
Kristy Schlesinger 
Laura Booth 
Paulina Tran 

Shook’s Orange County Environmental and Toxic Tort Practice encompasses a wide range of legal matters, from environmental and regulatory counseling to environmental due diligence and transactions, and environmental litigation. Our attorneys have argued the Court of Appeal opinions that control environmental cost recovery litigation in California and our attorneys successfully won the first federal jury verdict in the country brought on RCRA/CERCLA claims. We have a proven record of accomplishment of defeating class certification in complex mass toxic tort lawsuits. In the environmental and regulatory counseling arena, we advise clients across various industries on compliance with federal and state regulations and minimization of risk. We have a successful track record of negotiating on behalf of our clients against federal, state, county, and city environmental regulators—such as USEPA, CalEPA, DTSC, SWRCB, Regional WQCBs, CARB, and the various air districts like the South Coast Air Quality Management District. We also assist clients with environmental due diligence to ensure that commercial real estate transactions properly account for potential environmental contamination and associated liabilities. And, when matters result in litigation, our attorneys have handled, as both neutrals and advocates, the full gamut of environmental disputes, including actions under CERCLA, RCRA and HSSA.

Contacts
Jad Davis 
Diana Chang

Eva Weiler
Thomas Wynsma
Brandon Gilligan 

Shook Orange County helps our food industry clients develop early assessment procedures that allow for quick evaluation of potential liability and the most appropriate response in the event of suspected product contamination. As part of our regulatory review work on labeling, we analyze health and nutrient content claims to ensure that they accurately represent ingredient and nutrition information and include proper disclosures. We regularly counsel food manufacturers, suppliers and transporters subject to Food and Drug Administration regulations, ranging from pathogen prevention to facility inspections, product recalls and crisis management. Whether faced with individual personal injury lawsuits or multidistrict litigation, manufacturers, distributors and retailers can rely on Shook Orange County attorneys. 

Contacts
Marc Miles
Janet Hickson
Kristy Schlesinger 
Naoki Kaneko

Eva Weiler
Gabriel Spooner 
Edward Danielyan 
Henry Adams 

Shook Orange County attorneys are involved in the defense of product liability, commercial, and other litigation for pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers. We have been recognized by numerous publications, including Chambers USA, The American Lawyer and Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers. Whether resolving cases through aggressive discovery, pre-trial motions, alternative dispute resolution or victories in trial or on appeal, the Orange County office has established a reputation for getting the job done. 

Contacts
Michelle Fujimoto 
Eva Weiler 
Janet Hickson
Mayela Montenegro-Urch
Darolyn Hamada 
Paulina Tran 

Henry Adams
Brady O’Bryan

Our attorneys have extensive experience litigating and serving as trial counsel in complex, high-stakes product liability and toxic tort cases around the globe. We defend Fortune 100 companies in individual and consolidated proceedings involving pharmaceuticals and medical devices and other consumer products and toxic torts and environmental exposure. 

Contacts 
Michelle Fujimoto 
Bobbie Hooper
Mayela Montenegro-Urch

Eva Weiler
Paulina Tran 

Our Orange County attorneys have unparalleled experience in Proposition 65 litigation. They excel in navigating the intricate landscape of Proposition 65 litigation. With a deep understanding of the nuanced requirements and implications, they deliver proactive solutions that mitigate risks and safeguard client’s business interests. From compliance assessments to litigation defense, our team provides comprehensive support, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards while vigorously protecting our clients.

Contacts
Jad Davis 
Naoki Kaneko

Eva Weiler
Thomas Wynsma 
Brandon Gilligan 
Paulina Tran 

Numerous prestigious organizations have repeatedly recognized the excellence and success of Shook Orange County attorneys, including:

 

• Southern California Super Lawyers
• The Best California Lawyers
• The Best Lawyers in America
• The International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers

• The Legal 500 
• Who’s Who Legal: The International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers
• Lawdragon 500: Leading Litigators in America

Shook Orange County’s dedication extends outside of the firm’s client list into the local community through pro bono representation and volunteer work. Shook Orange County attorneys and staff devote volunteer hours to many organizations, including the following:

• American Bar Association’s Section of Energy, Environment, and Resources, Bridge Mentorship Program
• Bay Back Therapeutic Riding Club (BBTRC)
• California Minority Counsel Program
• Children’s Rights, Project Dependency Adoptions

• Families Forward 
• High Hopes Brain Injury Program
• Miracles for Kids, Annual Turkey Trot Run 
• National Charity League, Newport Beach
• NCL Ticktocker Thrift Shop
• Newport Harbor High School Da Vinci Academy, Mentorship Program 
• Orange County Coalition for Diversity in the Law 
• Project Hope Alliance
• Project Self
• Public Law Center Federal Pro Se Clinic – Southern Division
• Second Step
• Shook Scholars Institute 
• Someone Cares Soup Kitchen
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, Alternative Dispute Program Mediation