Kulik Gottesman Siegel & Ware LLP (“KGSW”) is pleased to announce that Thomas M. Ware II and Justin Nash successfully defended Erna Parth, a former homeowners’ association volunteer director and President, against a multi-million dollar damage breach of fiduciary duty claim brought against her by her own homeowners association. After a 25 day bench trial, […]
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BY: DAVID BERNARDONI Love him or hate him, President Trump dominates the news headlines and provokes passionate discussions taking place in the country today. Thus, it’s no surprise that in the last two years entrepreneurs have increasingly sought to capitalize on the Trump name in connection with goods and services they seek to bring to
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KGSW is proud to announce that on September 5, 2017, Samantha Kim joined the firm. Ms. Kim took the California State Bar exam in July, 2017. Subject to her passing the State Bar and being admitted to practice law in California, Ms. Kim’s practice will focus upon civil litigation matters, including intellectual property, real estate
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BY: DAVID BERNARDONI There’s more than one “Kylie” in town, but Kylie Minogue isn’t giving up her “Kylie” trademark protection without a fight. Long before “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” became a television sensation, singer Kylie Minogue had hit sings such as “The Locomotion” and “Come Into My World.” She has even owned the website
was recently asked to represent a young writer whose idea for a new television series had, in his words, been “ripped off.”
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Published in Community Associations Institute’s May/June 2013 issue of Focus Magazine A lawsuit filed against a homeowners association, even when frivolous and brought in bad faith, can have a devastating effect on an association’s limited funds. When a frivolous or bad faith lawsuit is filed, a homeowners association should consider the use of a motion
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Glen Kulik was recognized by the Daily Journal as one of the top 75 intellectual property litigator…
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Glen Kulik represented the appellant before the United States Supreme Court in Petrella vs. MGM, which resulted in a a reversal in favor of the firm’s client in a copyright infringement case that many experts have heralded as one of the most significant copyright decisions in the past 50 years. Ms. Petrella’s father wrote the
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On June 19, 2013, Len Siegel, Tom Ware, and David Bernardoni secured a Court of Appeal decision upholding the trial court’s sustaining of a homeowner association’s demurrer to homeowners’ complaint seeking to hold the Association liable for in excess of $200,000 in damages arising out of engineering errors in the homeowners’ architectural application. The victory
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How the Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Affects Employers and Employees For companies that employ 15 or more employees beware: Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act gives employees the right to sue if they suffer workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or gender identity. This past week, the U.S. Supreme
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