Category: Announcements

Lewis & Llewellyn celebrated its 12th anniversary this month!  We express sincere gratitude to all our clients, colleagues and friends of the firm who have contributed to our firm’s remarkable journey of growth, and we are looking forward to what’s yet to come.

Lewis & Llewellyn is dedicated to providing an opportunity for high-achieving young adults to explore their interest in the law.  We are particularly committed to enabling individuals from groups under-represented in the legal profession to gain access to mentorship, professional development, exposure and hands-on training to fast track their future legal careers.

In furtherance of this mission, Lewis & Llewellyn created our Annual Equity Fellowship geared towards undergraduate students who want to see behind the scenes and gain valuable experience in the practice of law.  Applications for 2024 are now open!

This individual will work as a critical member of our team, assisting attorneys and staff with investigations, legal briefing, analyzing evidence, and much more across a wide variety of substantive legal areas in commercial litigation.  The program will also offer opportunities to see the life cycle of a litigation, observe hearings and depositions, and receive one-on-one mentorship with our attorneys.

This fellowship is a paid opportunity.

Interested candidates may apply by sending a resume and a short personal statement (250 words maximum) to careers@lewisllewellyn.com.

Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys have recently been interviewed by numerous news outlets regarding high-profile lawsuits filed by the firm.  Specifically, the firm has filed two lawsuits against American Airlines on behalf of two minors who were allegedly secretly filmed in an airplane restroom by a flight attendant using a hidden camera.  Chris Cuomo’s interview with Paul Llewellyn on NewsNation can be watched here.

Lewis & Llewellyn also recently filed suit against Cal Poly San Luis Obispo on behalf of the family of Kristin Smart, a freshman at the university who went missing after a party in May 1996.  Paul Flores, another student at the time, was ultimately convicted of her murder in 2022.  Marc Lewis’s interview with CBS News Sacramento can be watched here.

Lewis & Llewellyn LLP will continue to deploy its aggressive litigation skills on on behalf of survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault.  We feel passionately about our efforts to hold individuals and institutions accountable.

As a part of our continued expansion, Lewis & Llewellyn is thrilled to welcome Erin Keefe to the firm.

Prior to joining Lewis & Llewellyn, Erin practiced at boutique litigation firms in Los Angeles and San Francisco where she obtained extensive motion and trial experience representing a range of clients from Fortune 500 companies, to start-up technology companies, to individual entrepreneurs.  In addition to her corporate litigation expertise, Erin remains committed to challenging institutional biases and transforming the legal landscape to be more equitable with her experience representing indigent clients in criminal appeals.

As one of California’s premier litigation boutiques, Lewis & Llewellyn will continue to welcome the best and the brightest attorneys from the world’s leading law firms who are looking to break out of their shell and practice at the cutting edge of litigation.  Please do not hesitate to contact us if you – or a colleague – is interested in applying.

Partners and Co-Founders Marc Lewis and Paul Llewellyn were recently selected by Benchmark Litigation as “Benchmark Litigation Stars” in their “Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Firms and Attorneys” 2024 edition.  Additionally, Partners Ryan Erickson and Evangeline Burbidge were named as “Benchmark Litigation Future Stars” for the upcoming year.

These rankings are based on extensive interviews with litigators, dispute resolution specialists, and clients as well as analysis of the market’s most important cases and firm developments.  As the definitive guide to the world’s leading litigation firms and lawyers, Benchmark recognizes attorneys who have demonstrated the ability to reliably handle complex, high-stakes cases in multiple jurisdictions.

Ryan Erickson and Erin Reding led a team that recently secured a $3.5 million settlement on behalf of a survivor of childhood sexual abuse in a case against a defendant school district.

In addition to its thriving corporate ligation practice, Lewis & Llewellyn is dedicated to representing survivors of sexual abuse in civil actions against perpetrators of abuse and institutions that enable it.  We are honored to be able to deploy our business litigation skills upon this incredibly worthy cause.

Lewis & Llewellyn is delighted to welcome Brad Estes to the partnership.

Brad joined our team in 2020 after clerking for the Honorable Lawrence J. O’Neill of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California.  Before clerking, Brad practiced at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP in San Francisco where he spent most of his time in or prepping for jury trials in state and federal courts across the country.  We are excited for Brad to continue his proven track record of counseling senior leadership with a litigation approach emphasizing tenacity, creativity, and pragmatism.  Brad’s tireless work ethic epitomizes what Lewis & Llewellyn offers its clients.

As a trial lawyer, Brad focuses on complex business litigation and has been deeply battle tested.  In a recent win, Brad successfully represented an international engineering company against an electric vehicle startup in a contested two-week arbitration.  Following years of litigation, the arbitrator awarded Brad’s client $28 million in damages, and rejected counterclaims valued at over $40 million.

Brad is also dedicated to his community.  Brad founded and runs Lewis & Llewellyn’s annual Equity Fellowship, which provides hands-on litigation experience, law school preparation, and general professional development to high-achieving young adults from groups historically underrepresented in the legal profession.

It was another incredible year for the team at Lewis & Llewellyn!  We are thankful as ever to work with such a phenomenal group of people.  Cheers to 2024!

Lewis & Llewellyn recently secured a $25.7 million jury verdict in a trade secret theft lawsuit in the Northern District of California, working alongside attorneys from Councill, Gunnemann & Chally. Congratulations to the trial team, Evangeline Burbidge, Zachary Flood, Jonathan Chally, Josh Gunnemann, and Jennifer Virostko, and to our incredible client EchoSpan.

EchoSpan is the creator of a web-based platform that allows companies to conduct complex 360-degree employee reviews.

During the six-day trial, EchoSpan presented evidence that Medallia signed up for a free trial of the EchoSpan product under false pretenses—claiming to be accessing the software to evaluate whether to purchase 5,000 licenses for Medallia’s internal use when, instead, Medallia employees took extensive notes on and screenshots of the product, using it to create a copycat tool. Medallia, in turn, defended these actions, arguing “no harm, no foul” and asserting that it developed the product on its own.

The jury sided with EchoSpan, finding that Medallia had willfully misappropriated the “heart” of EchoSpan’s product and awarding $11.7 million in compensatory damages and $14 million in exemplary damages to the company.

“It was powerful and humbling to watch the jury—regular members of the community—hold a $6.4 billion dollar company accountable when no one else could,” said partner Evangeline Burbidge. “CEO Joe Vance did the hard thing and stood up to a much bigger company. He and EchoSpan can walk tall after this verdict.”

To date, Lewis & Llewellyn’s clients have been awarded over $100 million. Congratulations to our team.

Last month the Lewis & Llewellyn team got together for some friendly competition over a few rounds of ping pong at SPIN in San Francisco.  It was a great event, and we are already looking forward to the next one!