Mr. Rosen is Of Counsel in Haight Brown & Bonesteel's Los Angeles Office. His practice has covered a wide variety of business transaction generated litigation for corporate and private clients, jury and non-jury, in the federal and state courts. He has also tried over 100 cases in almost every type of civil litigation matter and is frequently asked to provide insight and advice on various matters that arise throughout the firm. Currently, he handles disputes arising out of trademark, copyright and patent infringement, contract disputes, real estate and securities transactions, fraud, misappropriation of trade secrets, RICO, statutory and common law unfair competition (Business & Professions Code § 17200), restraint of trade in general and antitrust in particular, interference and defamation. He is also very experienced in representing clients in class actions.
In addition to focusing on intellectual property cases, in recent years he has been handling numerous employment disputes of all kinds. He was a member of a team that successfully defended at trial a global drug manufacturer against claims of unfair competition under Business & Professions Code § 17200 based on allegedly false advertising of a drug's effects. He also co-argued before the Supreme Court the application of § 17200 to an employer's failure to pay overtime wages, focusing on a determination of the proper statute of limitations, the existence of equitable defenses and the nature of a monetary remedy. He is very experienced in claims of wrongful termination and discrimination, unpaid wages, vacation pay, severance pay and other entitlement claims. He obtained a defense verdict for a multi-level direct marketing company, against a former employee's claims of breach of contract, fraud, interference and constructive termination, arising from the company's termination of the plaintiff's downline.
Some of his representative experience includes: defending producers of motion pictures in terms and conditions under which a motion picture would be distributed; representing shareholders in class action and securities fraud cases; defending a major real estate developer and lender against claims of interference and intentional infliction of emotional distress; successful defense of an individual against securities and common law fraud claims and SEC proceedings; defending land-use approvals obtained by the developer of a large tract, against claims of violation of CEQA and General Plan consistency requirements; successful defense of a pension fund against an action for breach of contract and specific performance of a $40 million loan commitment regarding the meaning and effect of the "prohibited transaction" provision in ERISA.
His extensive trial and litigation experience includes appellate work, such as writing briefs which resulted in establishing that change of venue under 28 U.S.C. § 1404(a) does not oust application of the substantive law or the transferor forum (Barrack v. Van Dusen); and admiralty has jurisdiction over cases arising out of the crash of an airplane within one marine league of the land (Weinstein v. Eastern Airlines).