Klinedinst PC

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – The 2022 Northern California edition of Super Lawyers® has just been published, and Sacramento attorneys Natalie P. Vance, Michael W. Carruth,  Ian A. Rambarran, and Jonathan C. Cahill  have been honored by their peers for their work in the legal community.

Published by Thomson Reuters, Super Lawyers is an annual publication that recognizes outstanding attorneys in large regions across the country. Before each publication, lawyers within the region are asked to nominate fellow attorneys who demonstrate excellence in the legal profession. Once nominated, these lawyers are then vetted by a review committee and editorial team before being recognized. According to Super Lawyers, fewer than 5% of attorneys in California are ever featured in the publication.

Ms. Vance is the Co-Managing Shareholder of Sacramento, and serves as Chief Diversity Officer of Klinedinst PC. She has been recognized in Super Lawyers for over a decade in Professional Liability: Defense. In addition to her work in defending professionals, she also represents clients in employment and business disputes. She is well-respected in the community, and is a Certified Specialist in Legal Malpractice by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization. With the launch of the 2022 edition of Northern California Super Lawyers, Ms. Vance has been featured in the publication for fourteen straight years.

Mr. Rambarran has been recognized in Super Lawyers for the past two consecutive years in Banking. Mr. Rambarran originally was featured in Super Lawyers as one of their Rising Stars from 2009-2015. A shareholder in the Sacramento office, he counsels clients on business, financial services, employment, intellectual property, real estate, transportation, and construction issues.

Mr. Carruth is Shareholder in the Sacramento office, and was originally recognized in Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in 2016. For the very first time, he has officially been recognized in 2022 edition of Northern California Super Lawyers for his work in Civil Litigation. His practice includes an emphasis on complex business and commercial disputes, mainly representing clients in the financial services and lending industry. His practice also emphasizes the defense of traumatic brain injury and other significant injury actions. 

Mr. Cahill is Counsel in our Sacramento office, and has been named a Rising Star in Super Lawyers. This marks the first year Mr. Cahill has been featured. The Rising Star recognition is given to on-the-rise attorneys that have either been practicing for fewer than ten years, or are under 40 years old. Fewer than 2.5% of eligible licensed attorneys are ever named “Rising Stars” by Super Lawyers.

Klinedinst congratulates Ms. Vance, Mr. Rambarran, Mr. Carruth, and Mr. Cahill on their recognition in Super Lawyers. For more information on Super Lawyers, please visit:

klinedinstlaw.com/super-lawyers

About Klinedinst

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel.  The firm’s offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, Santa Ana, and Seattle service the entire West Coast. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – The entire Klinedinst PC family mourns the sudden loss of Donald R. McKillop and his wife Patty on May 21, 2022. 

Don was one of the very first shareholders in the firm. In its early years, the firm went through several iterations of names, and many in the San Diego legal community recall the firm as Klinedinst, Fliehman & McKillop (or “KFM”). Don was an important part of the early leadership team, whose practice focused on construction law. Don was very involved in the Associated General Contractors of America, San Diego Chapter (AGCSD), and the organization recognized him twice with its prestigious AGC President’s Award in 2007 and 2019.

After leaving the firm to start his own construction law practice, Don remained close with colleagues and friends he had made at the firm. His son, Donnie, even worked as a summer marketing intern before relocating east to begin his career coaching college athletics.

“For many years, Don was truly the heart of the firm,” said John Klinedinst, Founder and Chair Emeritus. “He was such a great supporter of our staff and a brilliant lawyer, and he was responsible for kickstarting many of our great practices in the firm. Don was and will always be an important part of the legacy of our firm.”

Klinedinst joins Don and Patty’s many other friends and families in remembering these two wonderful individuals, gone too soon.

About Klinedinst 

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel. The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – Klinedinst is pleased to welcome Haera Fronjian to its Los Angeles team.

As part of her practice, Ms. Fronjian routinely handles California cases involving personal injury, general liability litigation, and employment matters. Ms. Fronjian is frequently called upon to assist clients with employment and termination, personal injury, wrongful death, and health law matters. Throughout her practice, she has represented both plaintiffs and defendants, giving her a unique perspective and valuable insight on every matter she defends.

“We are very excited to have Haera as part of our team,” said Robert J. Hatem, Managing Shareholder of the Klinedinst Los Angeles office. “Haera’s experience in a range of liability matters within our practice groups will provide tremendous experience and value for both our professional and corporate clients.”

Ms. Fronjian earned her law degree from California Western School of Law, where she was featured on the Dean’s Honor List. She also had the privilege of consulting for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section, where she worked to protect from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.

To learn more about Ms. Fronjian’s experience, please visit:

https://klinedinstlaw.com/profiles/attorney/haera-fronjian

About Klinedinst

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel.  The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – Klinedinst is pleased to extend a warm welcome to Neeru Jindal who has joined the firm’s Los Angeles office as Senior Counsel.

A graduate of USC Gould School of Law, Ms. Jindal has built a highly-sophisticated litigation practice, including consumer-facing disputes, finance, business disputes, arbitration and alternative dispute resolution, and class action litigation.

Prior to joining Klinedinst, Ms. Jindal has handled matters involving consumer protection statutes and privacy-related laws and regulations at the state and federal level. She has defended clients in a variety of cases, including matters alleging violations of the Truth in Lending Act, Fair Credit Reporting Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and Telephone Consumer Protection Act, as well as state unfair and deceptive acts or practices statutes and other consumer lending statutes and regulations..

“The addition of Neeru is a tremendous complement to our expanding financial services practice,” said Robert Hatem, Managing Shareholder of the Klinedinst Los Angeles office. “Having developed deep expertise through her work with a global law firm and multinational bank, she will use her knowledge and experience to advise our clients in litigated, and non-litigated matters.  We are excited to welcome Neeru to the Klinedinst team.”

Klinedinst is pleased to welcome Ms. Jindal as a trusted resource for the firm’s clients. To review Ms. Jindal’s full biography, visit here: https://klinedinstlaw.com/profiles/attorney/neeru-jindal

About Klinedinst 

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel. The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

Klinedinst is saddened by the unexpected passing of one of our beloved team members, Erica Wright. Erica was a shining light who worked in our Sacramento team, who always had a ready smile and faced the world with enthusiasm and grace.  

All of her colleagues are grieving her loss. We join others in remembering Erica, and are thinking of her family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.

About Klinedinst 

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel. The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

This year’s class is the largest number of Klinedinst lawyers ever recognized by the publication.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Super Lawyers® has published its annual list of San Diego Super Lawyers, which features a record number of Klinedinst lawyers for 2022.

Super Lawyers is a publication that annually recognizes outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates, and peer reviews by practice area.

Klinedinst attorneys recognized this year in San Diego Super Lawyers include:

• Dan S. Agle (Professional Liability Defense)
• Teresa M. Beck (Civil Litigation: Defense)
• Tara R. Burd (Estate and Trust Litigation)
• Kurt U. Campbell (Construction Litigation: Business)
• Carey L. Cooper (Environmental)
• John D. Klinedinst (Business/Corporate)
• Dan Lawton (Intellectual Property Litigation)
• Arthur S. Moreau, III (Business/Corporate)
• Robert M. Shaughnessy (Appellate)

Every year, Super Lawyers publishes several “top lists” that honors the lawyers that received the highest number of votes from their peers.

Super Lawyers® also released its 2022 list of Rising Stars. While up to five percent of the lawyers in the state are named to Super Lawyers, no more than 2.5 percent are ever featured in the Rising Stars list. Klinedinst lawyers named to Rising Stars include:

• Phillip E. Stephan (Business Litigation)

For more information on the full list of attorneys to be featured by Super Lawyers, please visit www.klinedinstlaw.com/super-lawyers

About Klinedinst

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel.  The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

Five of Klinedinst’s California attorneys have been promoted to Shareholder. The new Shareholders include Kristin N. Blake of Sacramento, Emily J. Atherton of Los Angeles, Dan Lawton of San Diego, James D. Snyder of San Diego, and W. Jason Scott of Sacramento.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Klinedinst PC is pleased to announce the promotion of Kristin N. Blake, Emily J. Atherton, Dan Lawton, James D. Snyder, and W. Jason Scott to Shareholder. The firm’s newest Shareholders are located throughout California and handle a wide array of practice areas, including transactional and M&A, corporate securities, financial services, intellectual property, product liability, professional liability, construction, appellate, and employment matters.

Kristin N. Blake is a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Construction, Land Use, Employment, and Environmental practice groups. Based in Sacramento, Ms. Blake regularly represents corporate and insurance clients in litigation involving land use, real estate, professional liability, and construction. She has worked with a wide-range of regulatory agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board of Central Valley, the California Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Ms. Blake contributes to the legal community as a member of the California Lawyers Association, the Sacramento County Bar Association, and Women Lawyers of Sacramento.

Emily J. Atherton is a Shareholder based out of Los Angeles who helps clients in a variety of practice areas, including employment litigation, product liability, premises liability, asbestos litigation, construction defect litigation, and general liability matters. She has worked on cases involving allegations of design, manufacturing, and warning defects, as well as class action litigation and PAGA claims. She works tirelessly for her clients in matters concerning harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage and hour issues. Ms. Atherton is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.

Dan Lawton brings over 30 years of experience in civil trial work, complex commercial and intellectual property litigation, as well as civil appeals. He is a Certified Legal Specialist in Appellate Law by the State Bar of California’s Board of Legal Specialization. From his office in San Diego, Mr. Lawton works regularly with both corporate and individual clients, including pharmaceutical companies, life sciences companies, landowners and property developers, bankers, politicians, professional athletes and coaches, attorneys, accountants, entrepreneurs, and entertainers. He helps counsel clients on cases involving patent infringement, copyright infringement, trade secret theft, unfair competition, defamation, and business torts. Mr. Lawton has been recognized since 2009 by San Diego Super Lawyers in the primary practice area of intellectual property litigation. He is a member of San Diego County Bar Association’s Appellate Courts Committee and the Editorial Board for California Litigation, the official publication for California Lawyer’s Association.

James D. Snyder is the lead Shareholder of Klinedinst’s Corporate Transactional and Securities, Privacy and Data Security, and Mergers and Acquisitions practice groups. He and his team advise business clients, from startups to large multinational business enterprises, on legal and regulatory business matters, in many instances as Outside General Counsel. James represents clients on U.S. and cross border M&A, data privacy and security, business financing and investment portfolios, corporate structuring, SaaS and software licensing matters, and intellectual property transactions. Mr. Snyder has been at the forefront of data privacy, advising clients on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

W. Jason Scott practices in the areas of business and commercial litigation, as well as financial products and services. He works with the firm’s corporate clients, focusing primarily on business, professional liability, and land use/environmental issues. Located in Sacramento, Mr. Scott represents professionals and entities in a wide array of liability, contract, and appellate matters. He has tremendous experience defending contractors and utilities in construction defect litigation, including premises liability, construction site injury, and general litigation matters. He also has involvement litigating disputes concerning land use and environmental issues, such as eminent domain, inverse condemnation, and soil and ground water contamination. Mr. Scott served in the United States Navy as a diver from 1992-1996, earning several medals, awards, and honors.

To learn more about each of our newest Shareholders, please visit:

www.klinedinstlaw.com/about/shareholders

About Klinedinst

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel.  The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.

Klinedinst PC announces the promotion of Tara R. Burd to Senior Counsel and Andrew J. Londerholm to Counsel. These two award-winning advocates are being recognized for their legal acumen, their commitment to client service, and their substantial contributions to the firm.

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA – Klinedinst is pleased to announce the latest promotion of Tara R. Burd to Senior Counsel and Andrew J. Londerholm to Counsel. These attorneys have been recognized for their stellar legal work by both peers and clients.

Tara R. Burd has extensive experience in probate and trust litigation and centers her practice on complex trust litigation, probate avoidance estate planning, probate administration, and professional liability defense. Ms. Burd works with clients to reduce or eliminate the risk of litigation, as well as advise trustees in multi-faceted administrations or disputes. Ms. Burd has been named a Rising Star in San Diego Super Lawyers® for Estate & Trust Litigation since 2017. A native of San Diego, Ms. Burd earned her earned her law degree from California Western School of Law. She is also active in her community, volunteering for the California Lawyers Association, Probate Attorneys of San Diego, and the San Diego County Bar Association.

Andrew J. Londerholm focuses his practice on residential and commercial construction litigation, as well as general liability litigation. He has a successful record of litigating public and private construction disputes for developers, general contractors, design experts, and subcontractors. Additionally, Mr. Londerholm has considerable experience working with residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects, including high-rise, infill, mid-rise, and major condominium conversion projects. Mr. Londerholm was selected as a 2021 Rising Star by San Diego Super Lawyers® for Construction Litigation. He is also a member of the California Lawyers Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, and LEAD San Diego.

Congratulations to Ms. Burd and Mr. Londerholm on their promotions. To learn more about each attorney, please visit: https://klinedinstlaw.com/profiles

About Klinedinst

Klinedinst is the go-to firm for clients looking for litigation, trial experience, transactional representation, and legal counsel.  The firm’s offices in Irvine, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and Seattle service clients across the West, handling matters in California, Washington, Nevada, and Arizona. What sets Klinedinst apart is the relationship our attorneys foster with each and every client. Klinedinst lawyers are indispensable strategic partners to business leaders, helping to achieve business objectives and create proactive solutions to resolve the many legal challenges that businesses are confronted with every day.  Whether vigorously advocating for business clients in court, or guiding business transactions and negotiations, Klinedinst is the trusted legal advisor to have by your side.