Attendees at the 3rd Annual JRCLS WIL Regional Conference
are pleased to hear from Teresa Céspedes Alarcón, Deborah A. Gubernick
and Michele D. Johnson. This panel will discuss “Gender Bias: Does it still
exist and how to Overcome?” The conference will be held in Orange, California
on September 19, 2015. Those that wish to attend can find more information at http://jrclswilconference.yolasite.com/
Teresa Céspedes Alarcón
Teresa Céspedes Alarcón is a founding
partner of California law firm KAEDIAN LLP. She focuses her practice on
white-collar criminal defense and related civil litigation and divides her time
between the firm’s Los Angeles and Orange County offices. She represents
businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals in state and federal matters,
including Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and commercial bribery investigations
and prosecutions, fraud, environmental crimes, public corruption, campaign
finance improprieties, contract disputes, SEC and regulatory agency enforcement
actions, internal investigations, grand jury proceedings and federal appeals.
Prior to forming KAEDIAN LLP, Ms. Alarcón
worked for a respected Los Angeles defense firm where she represented corporate
entities and individual executives across a wide array of industries and
officials in both state and federal litigation matters and appeals. Earlier in
her legal career, Ms. Alarcón was an associate at Bienert, Miller Katzman PLC
and Am Law 100 firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter Hampton LLP respectively. Ms.
Alarcón also served as a law clerk for the Honorable Arthur Alarcón (no
relation) for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Alarcón obtained her J.D. from the
University of California, Los Angeles and her Bachelor of Arts in International
Business from California State University, Fullerton.
Ms. Alarcón served as a Director for
the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association for the 2012 to 2014 term, and is a
member of the American Bar Association, Orange County Bar Association, and Los
Angeles Chapter of the Women in White Collar Defense Association. She has
presented on timely topics related to the practice of white-collar criminal
defense and on professional ethics and regulatory compliance. She is also
fluent in Spanish.
---
Deborah A. Gubernick
Deborah A. Gubernick joined the firm
Call & Jensen after working for multiple years at Latham & Watkins as a
litigation associate. She represents clients in various business litigation
matters in federal and state courts. Ms. Gubernick has significant experience
with intellectual property cases involving claims of false advertising, unfair
competition, infringement, breach of contract and related issues. She also
handles employment litigation matters and strategic counseling.
Among other areas, Ms. Gubernick has
counseled international and domestic businesses in advertising and marketing
issues and has negotiated assignments, settlements, trademark co-existence
agreements and licenses. Ms. Gubernick also manages clients’ international
trademark portfolios, including clearances of trademarks, representing clients
in international and domestic infringement and counterfeiting operations and
the prosecution of trademarks before the USPTO and Trademark Trial and Appeal
Board.
Ms.
Gubernick obtained her J.D. from the University of San Diego where she served
as Research Editor on the San Diego Law Review. She obtained her B.A. in
English at Brigham Young University.
---
Michele D. Johnson
Michele D. Johnson
is a member of Latham & Watkins’ Executive Committee and the former
Managing Partner of the Orange County office. She is also the former Chair of
the office's Litigation Department and is recognized as a leading California
litigator. Her practice focuses on securities and professional liability
litigation, and she represents industry-leading companies, officers and
directors, special committees and accounting firms in connection with securities
class actions, shareholder derivative litigation, mergers and acquisitions
litigation, SEC enforcement actions, internal investigations, and other
complex, high-exposure litigation.
Ms.
Johnson’s recent representations include multi-jurisdictional litigation
arising out of solicited and hostile takeover attempts, and investigations and
litigation on behalf of special committees and boards of directors related to
public company crises. She has represented pharmaceutical companies in clinical
and post-clinical trial phases of development, energy companies in the
post-Enron era and major accounting firms in professional malpractice actions.
She has had significant trial experience involving product liability, unfair
business practices, tax, trusts and estates, and insurance bad faith trials.
Ms. Johnson
has practiced extensively before federal and state courts. She represented
Alphatec Holdings in a securities class action, Mallen v. Alphatec
Holdings Inc., et al., that was named one of the “Top Verdicts of 2013”
by Daily Journal and affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in 2015.
Ms. Johnson
has lectured and written on a variety of topics involving corporate governance,
litigation techniques and securities laws issues.
Ms. Johnson
has served on her firm's Pro Bono, Associates and Diversity Committees. She currently
serves on the board of the Public Law Center and the Orange County chapter of
the Association of Business Trial Lawyers.
No comments:
Post a Comment