- FraudPamela J. Zanger is an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. Ms. Zanger has over twenty years of experience litigating in state and federal courts throughout California, including in trade secret misappropriation, unfair business practices, commercial, consumer fraud and insurance coverage cases.
- Corporate LawOf course, we have represented many board members – of both private and publicly traded companies – on a wide variety of issues, including their agreements to join the board, corporate governance matters, fiduciary duty concerns, mergers and acquisitions and board fights.
- Mergers and AcquisitionsThe Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. has represented hundreds and hundreds of executives, entrepreneurs, employees, investors, venture capitalists, shareholders and founders in complex business and employment negotiations and in hard fought arbitration and court cases. Areas of concentration include: the negotiation of employment, founder and investor-related agreements, stock option and equity compensation negotiations and disputes, negotiations during mergers and acquisitions, workplace discrimination issues and contract, employment and intellectual property disputes.
- Business DisputesAttorneys from the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. also represent private and public corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships and other business entities involved in complex negotiations or business disputes. Businesses represented by the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. are in a wide variety of markets, ranging from high-technology to investment banking to consulting to property management markets.
- Business TransactionsNot only do attorneys at the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. have years of experience negotiating contracts and providing business advice, they negotiate and offer advice from the perspective of those who both negotiate business transactions and litigate deals that have gone bad.
- Limited Liability Companies
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property
- Wrongful TerminationOur experience on both “sides of the aisle†and our experience as negotiators, advisors and corporate lawyers makes us better litigators. Indeed, our litigators are as comfortable in the board room as in the court room. We have represented clients in myriad types of disputes, including, contract disputes; stock option, restricted stock and other equity disputes; securities fraud claims; common law fraud claims; misrepresentation claims; negligence claims; copyright disputes, telephone-related claims; employment disputes; wrongful termination claims; breach of fiduciary duty claims; discrimination claims; failure to pay commissions claims; retaliation claims; intentional and negligent interference with contracts and prospective business advantage claims; non-compete disputes; defamation (both libel and slander) claims; unjust enrichment claims and customer-broker dealer disputes.
- Employment ContractLaw Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. attorneys have been negotiating contracts/agreements/understandings and providing business counseling and advice for more than twenty years to all size companies, from start-ups to publicly traded companies. Firm attorneys have negotiated a wide variety of contracts for their corporate clients, including merger agreements, professional services contracts, employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements, technology licensing contracts, and much more. The “other side†of those negotiations have included small closely held companies all the way up to Fortune 100 corporations. We have also advised our corporate clients on such diverse matters as capital raises, risk shifting and employment hiring and firing.
- Employment LitigationShawn Fields is an associate attorney at the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein, P.C. Mr. Fields has substantial business and employment litigation experience, as well as experience representing executives in employment matters and corporate entities in mergers, acquisitions, and other transactions. Mr. Fields has advised individual executive officers and directors, as well as boards of directors and other corporate fiduciaries, on corporate governance, executive employment, and executive compensation matters.
- Non-compete AgreementJJotham S. Stein is the principal of the Law Offices of Jotham S. Stein P.C. ( www.jotham.com ). Mr. Stein has more than two decades of experience representing entrepreneurs and C-Suite executives running myriad types of companies, board members, venture capitalists, private equity principals, investment bankers as well as less senior employees of all size companies. Mr. Stein has negotiated numerous employment agreements, separation agreements, M & A agreements, change in control agreements, stock option agreements, restricted stock agreements, management carve out agreements, non-compete agreements, and much more.