Bijan Esfandiari - Los Angeles, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law, Los Angeles, California, June, 2002
    J.D.
    Honors: Moot Court Honors Program
    Law Journal: UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, Member, 1999 - 2000

• Non Legal Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, 1999
    B.A.
    Honors: cum laude
    Major: History

Current Employment Position(s)

• Senior Partner, Attorney

Languages

• Farsi

Classes and Seminars

• Strategies for Litigating Copyright Cases When Infringement is Uncontested, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, February 17, 2006
  
• Oral Advocacy Competition Participant, ABA Forum on Communications Law, Media Advocacy Workshop, American Bar Association, February 8, 2007
  
• Legal Implications of Pharmaceutical Ghostwriting, Faculty of Law’s Conference, The Ethics of Ghost Authorship in Biomedical Research: Concerns and Remedies Workshop, University of Toronto, May 4, 2011
  
• Living with the Mensing Decision, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Actors and Pelvic Mesh Litigation Update, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 8, 2012
  
• Panel: Corruption, Selling Sickness, Selling Sickness, People Before Profits, Session VI, Washington, D.C., February 20, 2013 - February 22, 2013
  
• Status of the Infuse Litigation, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Medtronic Infuse Litigation Update, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 10, 2013
  
• Medtronic InFUSE Litigation Group, Status of Cases That Have Survived Preemption Motions and Discovery Strategies and Different Venue Options, American Association for Justice, AAJ Annual Convention, July 26, 2014 - July 30, 2014

Pro Bono Activities

• Public Counsel Volunteer Attorney, 2007
• Member, Representative Assembly of the Palms Neighborhood Council

Representative Cases

• Berg & Berg Enterprises, LLC v. Sherwood Partners, Inc., et al.
  • Citation: 131 Cal.App.4th 802
  • Court: Court of Appeals, 6th District, California
  • Year: 2005
• Tucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp.
  • Citation: 596 F.Supp.2d 1225
  • Year: 2008
• Knipe v.SmithKline Beecham
  • Citation: 583 F.Supp.2d 553
  • Year: 2008
• Forst v. Smithkline Beecham Corp.
  • Citation: 639 F.Supp.2d 948
  • Year: 2009
• Mason v. SmithKline Beecham Corp
  • Citation: 596 F.3d 387
  • Court: 7th Circuit
  • Year: 2010
• Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc.
  • Citation: 699 F.Supp.2d 1142
• Cabana v. Stryker Biotech, LLC et al.
  • Citation: Case No. BC465313
  • Year: 2012
• Knipe v. SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 602 (E.D.Pa. 2008)
• Cunningham v. SmithKline Beecham, 255 F.R.D. 474 (N.D.Ind. 2009)
• Forst v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 602 F.Supp.2d 960 (E.D.Wis. 2009)
• ucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 701 F.Supp.2d 1040 (S.D.Ind.2010)
• Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., 699 F.Supp.2d 1142 (C.D.Cal. 2010)
• Cabana v. Stryker Biotech, LLC et al., Case No. BC465313, 2012 WL 3729227 (Cal.Super. Ct., August 20, 2012)
• McCormick v. Medtronic, Inc., 219 Md. App. 485, 101 A.3d 467 (2014)
• Boutte v. Stryker Biotech, LLC, 67 F. Supp. 3d 732, 734 (M.D. La. 2014)
• Hricik v. Stryker Biotech, LLC, 89 F. Supp. 3d 694 (E.D. Pa. 2015)

Published Works

Articles

• Camisoles: Providing Thin Protection, IP Law 360, 2006
  
• YouTube Sued: It's a Riot, American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Media Privacy Committee Newsletter, 2006
  
• Contributing Author to The Docket, UCLA School of Law Publication
  
• Grokster: Inducing Further Litigation – ABA Tort Trial & Practice Section, Intellectual Property Law Committee Newsletter, Fall, 2005
  
• Caught Without a License – Marketing Management – Marketing Law, November/December, 2007
  
• Complete Tort Immunity For Drug Manufacturers Is Bad For The Public Health: A Commentary On Colacicco v. Apotex And Other Recent Preemption Decisions – LexisNexis Mealey’s Litigation Report: Antidepressant Report, Volume 4, Issue #10, May, 2008
• Preemption’s Requiem in the Wake of Wyeth v. Levine – LexisNexis Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & Devices, Volume 14, Issue #10, May, 2009
• Outsmarting the ‘Learned-Intermediary Doctrine’ Defense – The Advocate, February 2010, pg 62
• Levine To Mensing — A Journey From The Sublime To The Ridiculous – LexisNexis Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & Devices, Volume 16, Issue #16, August 18, 2011
• Reason Magazine Perpetuates False Information About Safety and Efficacy of Antidepressants, September 30, 2011
• Challenging Medical Ghostwriting in US Courts – PLOS Medicine, January 24, 2012

Bar Admissions

• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2008
• U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 2008
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, 2008
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2008
• U.S. Court of Appeals 7th Circuit, 2009
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2011
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2012
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2013
• California, 2002
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2002
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 2005
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 2005
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2002
• U.S. District Court Western District of Wisconsin, 2021

Other Affiliations

• American Bar Association, 2002 - Present (Member)
• American Association for Justice: Leader’s Forum
• Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles