Majed Dakak - Manhattan Beach, CA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, 2009
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles, California, 2003
    B.A.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Departmental Honors Program
    Honors: With Honors
    Major: Economics
    Minor: Computer Programming

Current Employment Position(s)

• Partner 

Past Positions

• Deloitte Tax LLP, Tax consultant
• Navigant Consulting, Senior consultant
• Blecher Collins Pepperman & Joye, P.C.

Languages

• Arabic

Classes and Seminars

• Adjunct Professor, Mount St. Mary’s College - Teaching Law Related Courses, 2014 - Present
  
• Adjunct Professor, El Camino College - Teaching Law Related Courses, 2018 - 2019
  
• Guest Judge Selected to Evaluate Oral Arguments, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2013 - 2014
  
• Guest Lecturer, Race and the Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2010

Representative Cases

• Lead counsel in a statewide class action against a national freight company challenging unlawful non-compete and non-solicitation clauses under California Business & Professions Code §16600 and §16600.1.
• Defending a New Jersey-based food distributor in a federal unfair competition and tortious interference lawsuit involving exclusive distribution rights to a specialty tea brand.
• Representing the seller of a business in defeating a non-compete enforcement claim in arbitration and obtaining a final arbitration award on a breach of contract counterclaim, including damages, interest, attorneys’ fees, and costs. The arbitration award was confirmed as a court judgment.
• Defending a property owner in a federal fair housing and disability access lawsuit alleging architectural and communication barriers at a 47-unit apartment complex.
• Represented a commercial borrower in a consolidated bench trial over DSCR-based loan default and foreclosure claims, obtaining a favorable trial ruling on all liability issues.
• Representing a food service company and its owner against a former accounting firm for breach of contract, fraud, and professional negligence related to excessive and unauthorized billing
• Represented a former Army colonel in a successful Ninth Circuit appeal defeating a motion to dismiss under the Feres doctrine. The court held that her sexual assault claims against a retired four-star general and the United States could proceed, establishing that they were not barred as incident to military service.
• Represented a California-based manufacturing company in confirming a $3.27 million arbitration award arising from a dispute over the breakup and asset division of a former joint venture. Successfully defeated a petition to vacate the award, with the court affirming the arbitrators’ authority and awarding post-award, pre-judgment interest.
• Represented a construction company and its principal in a post-judgment motion to vacate a $1.6 million default judgment, including $1 million in punitive damages.
• Represented a class of healthcare workers in a certified wage-and-hour and PAGA action involving paid sick leave and nondiscretionary pay violations. Secured final court approval of a $4.75 million settlement against a major California hospital system.
• Represents a public healthcare district concerning healthcare competition issues and other healthcare related matters.
• Represents a homeowners association that sued a developer for breach of contract and breach of fiduciary duty.
• Represented a plaintiff in a matter dealing with a nonprofit corporation’s breach of charitable trust and breach of contract.
• Represented a putative class of real estate agents against a nationwide real estate company for failure to properly classify its employees. That matter received final approval in favor of the for $4.5 million.
• Represented plaintiffs in a derivative action brought by shareholders of a two corporations against a corporate officer who breached her fiduciary duty.
• Represented a physician and health care entities in an antitrust group boycott trial against a major hospital.
• Represented plaintiffs in a class action against AT&T for exploiting its customers by grossly overcharging, in relation to its cost, for non-published and non-listed telephone services.
• Represented victims of an international hijacking in a matter dealing with international law, statutory interpretation, professional malpractice, and complex contractual liability.
• Represented an investment firm in a breach of contract and fraud action arising out of the sale of an MRI patent portfolio.

Published Works

Articles

• Shames v. California Travel & Tourism Opinion Commission: Broadening the Scope of State Action Immunity, State Bar of California, Journal of the Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, Vol 19, No., 2, 2010
  
• Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section, The State Bar of California, CALIFORNIA ANTITRUST AND UNFAIR COMPETITION LAW, REVISED EDITION, Health Industry, §8 et seq. (Cheryl Lee Johnson, ed., Matthew Bender & Co. 2013)
  
• “Ordered recusal of immigration judge boggles the mind,” Op-ed in Los Angeles Daily Journal, December 10, 2014 (co-author with Hon. Bruce J. Einhorn and Dalila Kamal-Griffin)
  

Bar Admissions

• California, 2010
• Supreme Court of California, 2010
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 2010
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 2013
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 2017
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 2018
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2017
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 2020
• United States Supreme Court, 2021
• U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit, 2022

Other Affiliations

• Association of Business Trial Lawyers
• Arab American Lawyers Association of Southern California (Board of Governors)
• Los Angeles Bar Association
• Consumer Attorneys of Los Angeles