Areas of Practice
With the vast experience of the San Francisco office, combined with the wealth of resources available from the other Sonnenschein offices nationwide, the San Francisco office of Sonnenschein is truly a unique environment. Listed below are the San Francisco office practice areas:
Litigation
Lawyers in our San Francisco office are experienced in handling all types of litigation, including commercial, real estate, environmental, labor and employment, government contracts, franchising and distribution, insurance, general appellate, intellectual property, antitrust, construction, stockholder derivative suits and white collar criminal defense. Our San Francisco office includes more than 30 litigators. These litigators handle cases at both the trial and appellate levels in federal and state courts throughout California, as well as in other parts of the country.
Corporate, Finance and Real Estate
Sonnenschein's San Francisco office has an active corporate, finance and real estate practice. Our lawyers are experienced in mergers and acquisitions, commercial finance matters (including tax-exempt financings), and a full range of general corporate counseling matters. Our clients in San Francisco include major publicly held companies and private companies, including a number of start-ups. Our San Francisco real estate lawyers are experienced in dealing with the legal and practical issues related to virtually every type of real estate, including office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, multi-family residential projects and industrial developments.
Intellectual Property and Technology
San Francisco members of our Intellectual Property and Technology practice provide counsel and assistance to clients facing information and intellectual property issues worldwide. Sonnenschein attorneys have substantial experience representing companies and individuals in copyright and trademark law, libel and defamation law, and in issues relating to the development and production of information, technology, and artistic creations.
In the past year, our Intellectual Property and Technology practice has grown to reflect the expanding relationship between intellectual property, information technology and the businesses of our clients.
Insurance
Sonnenschein has a national reputation for its extensive representation of insurers on a wide variety of litigation, counseling and transactional matters. Lawyers in our San Francisco office play a leading role in this national practice. They not only handle matters in California for numerous insurance carriers, but also represent insurers on many matters outside of California, including serving as nationwide coordinating counsel for insurers in major cases or areas of litigation.
General Appellate
Sonnenschein has an active and growing appellate practice. Lawyers in the San Francisco office are frequently called in at the post-trial stage to represent parties and amici before all levels of federal and state appellate courts, in such diverse areas as insurance, products liability, employment discrimination, environmental law, ERISA and health care.
Government Contracts
Our San Francisco office represents major contractors in every facet of federal and state procurement. San Francisco lawyers assist clients in presenting bid protests; preparing claims under federal and state law; accounting for contract cost under applicable cost principles; handling contract disputes before federal and state courts, boards of contract appeals and arbitration panels; and in defending civil and criminal fraud investigations.
Health Care
Lawyers in our Health Care Group in San Francisco represent health plans, health care providers, health care technology companies and medical device companies with regard to a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters. The San Francisco Health Care Group counsels clients on privacy, security and information technology legal issues, including compliance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act. They advise hospital, physician organization and health plan clients regarding provider contracting, fraud and abuse, physician self-referral and Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement issues. They also handle general transactional matters for managed care organizations and corporate health care matters, including the formation and ongoing representation of independent practice associations, medical groups, management services organizations and integrated delivery systems, and counsel on matters involving managed care regulation and compliance.
Labor and Employment
Our San Francisco office includes lawyers who handle labor and employment cases before federal and state trial and appellate courts, the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Labor, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and state administrative agencies. The office also does ERISA work, as well as provides practical advice to union and non-union employers in a wide variety of industries to avoid or minimize disputes with employees and independent contractors and assists employers in drafting employment contracts, handbooks and policies.
Environmental
Sonnenschein's environmental lawyers in San Francisco represent clients across the country in a wide array of environmental and natural resource matters. Our practice emphasizes preventive environmental law and encompasses counseling on the avoidance or minimization of environmental liability, the environmental aspects of corporate and real estate transactions, representation before federal and state agencies, environmental permitting and impact assessment, and litigation.
Regulatory Insurance
The firm's regulatory practice is based in the San Francisco office, and offers a wide range of corporate, administrative and regulatory law services to insurance organizations and government entities that regulate the insurance industry. Our regulatory department advises insurers and insurance organizations on a wide variety of regulatory matters, including the formation of insurance companies and agencies, demutualization of companies, monitoring and achieving regulatory compliance and resolving licensing issues. Our department has represented clients in almost every state and in other countries. Insurance regulatory clients are served through advice and counseling, as well as proactive intervention with insurance regulators to prevent the need for administrative or judicial action.
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