During law school, Maria served as a staffer for the Southwestern Journal of International Law and her student note on wildfire-related human rights litigation in Greece was selected for publication. Maria also was Vice President of the Environmental Law Society, a Teaching Assistant for Legal Writing, Analysis & Research, a Dean’s Fellow, and a student attorney Clinician in the Immigration Law Clinic. Prior to joining KBR, Maria served as a Law Clerk for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, Los Angeles World Airports (“LAWA”) Division.

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During law school, Sean served as Senior Staff Editor for UC Law Business Journal.

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During law school, Cameron served as the Executive Articles Director for the Brooklyn Journal of International Law. Prior to joining KBR, Cameron worked as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Los Angeles Superior Court.

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During law school, Paige served as the Competition Chair of the mock trial team and the Note & Comment Editor of the Journal for Business, Entrepreneurship and the Law. She also received a certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.

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Joshua also represents physicians, clinics, medical groups, and other healthcare professionals as well as lawyers and other professionals confronted with malpractice claims. Joshua is a member of the California Society for Healthcare Risk Management, a group of healthcare and risk management professionals such as risk managers, patient safety specialists, quality managers, insurance professionals, attorneys, claims representatives and healthcare providers whose goal is the prevention or mitigation of loss or injury for patients and healthcare providers.

Joshua is a former President of the Ventura County Chapter of the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), a group of litigation and risk managers, claims professionals, insurance companies, corporations, corporate counsel, and attorneys that work to promote and further the highest standards of litigation management in pursuit of client defense.

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She represents insurers in all aspects of claims handling and coverage issues. Her experience includes complex exposure assessments of claims in California and throughout the country, handling all aspects of defense issues and monitoring, representation of insurers at mediation, negotiation of settlements and policy drafting.

Nicole currently serves on the PLUS Board of Trustees and is the Immediate Past President. Formerly, she served as Vice President and Secretary – Treasurer.

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Jeff has extensive litigation and trial experience defending physicians, therapists, hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care providers in a wide variety of high-exposure medical malpractice, nursing home, assisted living facility, and wrongful death lawsuits. He handles product liability, toxic tort and asbestos litigation, and food-borne illness cases. In this capacity, Jeff was retained as National Trial Counsel for an insured client involved in the 2011 cantaloupe listeria outbreak where he supervised a dozen local defense firms in 60+ lawsuits across the country.

Jeff regularly defends management/employers in employment and business/commercial litigation as well as in matters involving breach of (or interference with) contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence throughout California. This necessarily involves litigation surrounding claims of sexual harassment, discrimination of every sort, retaliation, wrongful termination, and unfair competition. He also focuses on wage and hour class action litigation, as well as client counseling on employee relations and compliance with federal state and local laws, particularly as they pertain to wage and hour laws, employment agreements, and independent contractor issues.

With respect to insurance coverage, Jeff represents insurers exclusively with respect to EPL, D&O, E&O and GL policies. He advises insurers as to underlying liability and risk, the underwriting considerations relevant to insuring those liabilities, and policy drafting, In this capacity, Jeff monitors and supervises local defense counsel in California and throughout the country on litigated matters. When coverage disputes arise, Jeff represents insurers in coverage mediations and defends against “bad faith” claims in coverage litigation in state and federal courts.

Jeff’s broad range of experience lends itself greatly to the defense of lawyers, accountants, brokers in malpractice and other E&O lawsuits. Jeff’s practice also includes the representation of corporate clients and property owners involved in general, product and premises liability litigation.

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