Trusted Litigation Counsel
When It Matters Most

Overview

Bill Logan has over thirty years of commercial litigation experience in federal and state court on both the plaintiff and defense side, including misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, trademark and copyright, corporate/partnership control, trustee and fiduciary liability, accountants’ professional liability, construction defect, employment, partnership, embezzlement, real estate, fraud, negotiable instruments, title insurance, water rights and financial institution liability. Bill has had numerous trials, including jury trials, court trials and arbitrations. Bill also has extensive experience with mediation and other alternative dispute resolution forums.

In recent years, Bill has devoted substantial attention to embezzlement cases, including working closely with law enforcement and prosecuting agencies on behalf of his clients, as well as complex trust and real estate related matters, defense of employment claims, including class actions, partnership/LLC disputes, professional liability of accountants and construction disputes. A few of examples of recent matters include:

• Represented limited liability company that provides investment advisory services in lawsuit by a member who withdrew from the company and sought to dissolve the LLC. Defending the LLC and its remaining members required litigating the claimed interests of a dissociated member and his status as a transferee of a membership interest. In addition, represented the LLC and its members on their counterclaim against the former member for breaching his fiduciary duties while still a member. After defeating former member’s dissolution claim on a motion for summary adjudication, the action was successfully settled.
• Represented one of the nation’s largest Toyota dealers in an action against other dealers alleging aiding and abetting the theft of the dealer’s pre-production inventory during a period of inventory shortages. After initial discovery and investigation, followed by a ruling that out-of-state dealer defendants were subject to the personal jurisdiction of a federal court in California, the dealer defendants collectively settled the litigation for more the plaintiff dealership sought in the complaint.
• Represented a San Francisco Bay Area real estate brokerage and property management firm in an action seeking to recover losses for embezzlements orchestrated by a trusted key employee and her husband, which the employee and her husband tried to defend as having been taken with the consent of the owner. After a month-long trial, the Court awarded the brokerage firm the full amount of its losses, and further awarded treble damages and attorney’s fees.
• Represented a mid-west based commercial flooring contractor which had been the subcontractor on a billion dollar state prison construction project, and successfully settled its claims for substantial additional compensation against the general contractor.
• Defended a specialty food manufacturer and retailer in an action alleging trademark infringement by a national food entertainment company, and successfully secured insurance coverage for defense and later a nominal settlement of the plaintiff’s claims.
• Represented a Florida based investment firm and its principal in a fraud and embezzlement case against its former Florida attorney, and secured a judgment against the attorney after trial for the full amount of the investment firm’s claimed losses, as well as substantial prejudgment interest and attorney’s fees.
• Represented an auto dealership embezzlement victim against its former CPA firm seeking to recover its embezzlement losses attributed to the CPA firm’s failure to discover them in the course of its annual reviews, and successfully settled the case for a multiple of what had initially been offered.
• Represented an employer in a California ADA action alleging failure to accommodate and settled the claim for a fraction of defense costs after an initial round of discovery.
• Represented a beneficiary of a $40 million dollar trust in connection with multiple disputes arising out of the institutional trustee’s handling of the estate, and successfully recovered in settlement excessive fees charged by the institution and losses to the trust, as well as a Court ordered modification of the trust that eased undue restrictions on the beneficiary’s right to access income and principal from the trust.
• Represented technology company in an unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets action against former employee who in leaving her employment to work for a competitor misappropriated the client’s trade secrets and breached her employment contract. Following trial, judgment was entered against the employee and her new employer for unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets.

Education

• UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO SCHOOL OF LAW, cum laude
  Juris Doctor, 1984
• Extern, Honorable William Ingram, United States District Court, Northern District of California
• UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
  B.A., Economics & Political Science

Bar Admissions

• California, 1984
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Overview

Kevin C. Mayer is a partner and commercial trial attorney in Logan Mayer’s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. He has litigated and tried cases in multiple federal, state, territorial, and tribal courts, as well as before government agencies and administrative bodies. Kevin also has an active counselling practice, representing clients facing regulatory enforcement at both the state and federal level. He has represented clients in the business, technology, oil and chemical, sporting goods and fitness, energy, medical device and pharmaceuticals, industrial and consumer products, manufacturing, and construction industries, as well as academic institutions.

Kevin has vast experience addressing complex commercial, scientific, medical, engineering, and technical issues that are of pivotal importance to his clients’ positions. These matters include the recent prosecution of plaintiff and defense interests in business torts and breach-of-contract litigation, medical device product liability/mass tort actions, and civil and administrative law trials and appeals for industrial and commercial entities’ alleged violations of the federal and states’ OSHA and environmental statutes, as well as California’s Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 (Proposition 65) and the federal Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). He has frequently spoken and written on civil trial and administrative law practice, and has addressed innumerable trade associations and their members throughout the country.

As one of the country’s preeminent trial attorneys in toxic tort and water-borne pathogen litigation, Kevin assists clients in dealing with individual injury and community disease outbreaks allegedly caused by chemical exposures and viral and bacterial contamination of municipal and building water systems. His work routinely includes handling cancer, systemic disease, birth defect, and Legionnaire’s Disease cases. Members of industry turn to Kevin for his guidance on the legal ramifications associated with increased government scrutiny and regulation of environmental, health and safety issues in the workplace.

While in law school, Kevin was an extern to the Honorable Eugene F. Lynch, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Kevin is admitted to practice before all federal and state courts in the State of California, and has been admitted pro hac vice in multiple federal and state jurisdictions.

Representative Experience

• Service as national coordinating and trial counsel for multiple Fortune 500 companies in toxic tort, mass tort, and asbestos/talc litigation.
• Handles federal and state OSHA compliance counselling, audits, incident investigations, and citation appeals for various industries and facilities, including government military contractors, energy companies, industrial equipment manufacturers, refineries, and commercial property owners.
• Served as principal defense trial counsel for a medical device manufacturer in mass tort federal and state products liability lawsuits alleging design and warnings defects, fraud, and breach of warranties.
• Handles Proposition 65 compliance counselling, violation notice investigations, litigation, and industry-wide resolutions for companies whose products are alleged to contain carcinogens and reproductive toxins.
• Trial counsel for international generic pharmaceutical company in nationwide litigation brought by the federal and state Attorneys General alleging Medicaid overpayments for prescription drugs.
• Defended the real estate development arm of an international conglomerate in construction defect litigation throughout California.

Education

• JD, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
• BA, University of California, Berkeley

Bar Admissions

• California State Bar
• Admitted Pro Hac Vice in multiple federal and state courts