Shaun A. Hoting - Lawyer in Irvine, CA

PRACTICE AREAS

• Business Litigation
• Trademark and Copyright Litigation
• Securities Litigation
• White Collar Criminal Defense

EXPERIENCE

Shaun Hoting focuses his practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Shauns practice includes litigation related to contract disputes, legal malpractice, patents, copyrights, trademarks, securities, and white collar defense. He has litigated cases involving technologies as diverse as software, cellular telephones, aerospace seals, and waterpark attractions. Shauns experience includes drafting motions and memoranda for all stages of litigation, including federal appeal briefs, preliminary injunction motions, motions for summary judgment, Markman briefs, and motions in limine.

From 2010-2012 he was a law clerk to the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips, now the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In 2007 Shaun was a judicial extern for the Honorable David O. Carter of the Central District.

During his federal judicial clerkship, Shaun prepared bench memoranda covering a wide array of subject matter, including breach of contract, false advertising, legal malpractice, civil rights, qui tam, wage and hour employment disputes, production and distribution disputes in the television broadcast industry, and criminal prosecutions by the U.S. Attorneys Office.

Shaun was honored with a 2019 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year award for his role as a critical member of the trial team in Yellowstone Womens First Step House, Inc., et al. v. City of Costa Mesa.

Shaun is currently working on a plaintiff legal malpractice action with potential damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He drafted KAs opposition to summary judgment by the government on a $200 million tax case in which KAs client is the petitioner. Additionally, Shaun is the go-to person in the firm for complex law and motion matters of all types.

Before coming to Keller/Anderle, Shaun litigated complex commercial and intellectual property cases at a large, international law firm.

HONORS AND AWARDS

• California Lawyer Magazine CLAY Award (California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year), Litigation (2019)
• Listed in The Best Lawyers In America?, S. Naifeh G. Smith (2020-2021), Commercial Litigation
• The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, Top Defense Verdicts (2018)

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Second-chaired a week-long arbitration for a preeminent water-park attraction manufacturer that resulted in an arbitration finding in the clients favor
• Represented a prominent lens manufacturer in an arbitration with one of its distributors that resulted in a unanimous finding by the arbitration panel in the clients favor
• Represented a cosmetics manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit that resolved in a favorable settlement for the client
• Represented a global manufacturer of consumer electronics in a patent infringement suit in E.D. Texas that resulted in a jury verdict for the client
• Represented a financial institution in multiple matters related to its mortgage issuing practices, all of which resolved favorably for the client
• Represented an apparel manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which resulted in favorable decision for the client
• Represented multiple clients under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys Office, each of which resulted in a declination of prosecution
• Represented multiple individuals in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, each of which resulted in no further action being taken by the Commission
• Represented company in an investigation and enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission that resolved in a favorable settlement with the Commission

PUBLICATIONS

• Co-Author, Insider Trading Enforcement is Getting Faster, More Aggressive, and More Sophisticated, Orange County Business Journal, April 2013
• Author, The Kelo Revolution, 86 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 65, 65-129, 2009
• Author, The Crocodile in the Bathtub: An Examination of Californias System for Judicial Election, American University Criminal Law Brief, 2, 2-15, Vol. 4 Iss. 1, 2009

MEDIA

• March 27, 2019? Daily Journal CLAY Award profile? Writing the legal blueprint for cities as it relates to sober-living homes

EDUCATION

• UCLA School of Law, J.D., 2008
• UCLA Entertainment Law Review, Member
• UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, Member
• University of California at Berkeley, B.A. with highest honors, 2003

CLERKSHIP

• Law Clerk, the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2010-2012

EXTERNSHIP

• Extern, the Honorable David O. Carter, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2007