Category: Announcements

Last month, the Lewis & Llewellyn team and our families gathered in the East Bay to celebrate the final weeks of summer.  We always enjoy the opportunity to get together outside of the office, and it’s made even better when we are joined by our children, partners, and parents.

It’s been a busy summer for the Lewis & Llewellyn team!  Last month we spent an afternoon sailing on the Bay, taking in the stunning views of San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Partner Paul Llewellyn will be a featured speaker in the Practising Law Institute (PLI)’s upcoming program, Pocket MBA 2024: Finance for Lawyers and Other Professionals.  The program will be held live at PLI’s California Center in San Francisco on September 26-27, 2024.  Details about the event can be found here.

Becca Furman recently attended the 2024 Lead Counsel Summit, which brought together some of the best litigators in the country to train, inspire, and elevate the next generation of female first chair litigators.  Becca will also be a speaker for the 19^th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp hosted by Pincus on September 24 and 26, 2024.  Details for the event can be found here.

Last month, Lewis & Llewellyn Partner Evangeline A.Z. Burbidge was a featured speaker at Pincus Professional Education’s Master the Depositions 101: The Nuts and Bolts California program.  Evan co-presented with plaintiff’s lawyer heavyweight Paul Triana of Panish Shea Ravipudi on how to handle difficult opposing counsel and difficult witnesses.

A California federal judge has revived a previously dismissed lawsuit filed by our client, Top Agent Network, against the National Association of Realtors (NAR).  The lawsuit challenges the NAR’s “clear cooperation” policy, which requires agents to list properties on a multiple listing service (MLS) within a day of marketing them elsewhere.  The revival follows a successful appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.   The lawsuit, led by Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys Tobias Snyder and Paul Llewellyn, was recently named by Law360 as one of the country’s four real estate cases to watch in 2024.  A copy of the article can be read here.

Drawing on their years of trial and arbitration experience, Lewis & Llewellyn attorneys Evangeline A.Z. Burbidge and Nitesh Daryanani published an article in California Litigation magazine titled “Courtroom or Conference Room: Considerations for Jury Trials v. Arbitration.” The piece highlights the distinctions between these two processes, while also serving as a template for lawyers looking for an easy way to explain to clients the differences. Evan and Nitesh also highlight some tips / traps for litigators. The article can be read here.

Thank you to everyone who joined us earlier this month for Janet Jackson’s Together Again Tour at the Chase Center.  It’s always a pleasure to connect with our friends and colleagues in person.

This November, our partner Paul Llewellyn will be participating in the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon.

With his run, Paul will be fundraising for Soccer Without Borders, an organization that uses soccer “as a vehicle for positive change, providing underserved youth with a toolkit to overcome obstacles to growth, inclusion, and personal success.”  The organization has a local Bay Area program in Oakland.

If you would like to donate to Paul’s fundraiser for Soccer Without Borders, you can do so here.