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Jennifer Rosenberg

Walnut Creek,CA

Summary

Experienced and resourceful litigator adept at strategic thinking. Highly skilled in persuasive legal writing, oral argument, discovery and depositions, legal research, and negotiation.

Overview

36
36
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Counsel

Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser, LLC
Walnut Creek, CA
10.1994 - 09.2021

Represented plaintiffs in class actions, including consumer, securities, antitrust, fraud, contract, statutory violations, and mass tort litigation. Duties included every aspect of complex litigation in state and federal court:

  • Investigation of potential cases;
  • Legal research;
  • Preparing complaints, motions, trial briefs, appellate briefs;
  • Taking and defending lay and expert witness depositions;
  • Preparing and responding to written discovery and engaging in discovery motion practice;
  • Participation in bench and jury trials;
  • Oral argument in trial and appellate courts;
  • Negotiating and documenting settlements and presenting settlements to courts for approval.

Associate Attorney

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen
Walnut Creek, CA
06.1987 - 09.1994

Specialized in CEQA and other land use litigation, including presentations to city councils and other government entities; preparing and responding to complaints; preparing administrative record; preparing and responding to trial court and appellate court writ petitions; preparing trial and appellate briefs.


General litigation experience, including written discovery, taking and defending expert and lay witness depositions, preparing and arguing trial court motions, negotiating and documenting settlements.

Associate Attorney

McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo
San Francisco, CA
10.1985 - 05.1987

Junior litigation associate with firm representing savings and loans and other financial institutions. Drafted pleadings, conducted discovery, argued motions, counseled clients, reviewed documents.

Education

J.D. -

University of California
Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA

Skills

  • Highly effective writer
  • Extensive motion practice experience
  • Experienced in state and federal court
  • Excellent oral advocate

Accomplishments

Jeopardy! contestant, 2020.


Contributing writer to California Civil Procedure Before Trial Forms, drafting and contributing all of the class action forms (Chapter 14) as well as many other forms and sample pleadings.


Edited annual edition of Remy, Thomas & Moose’s Guide to the California Environmental Quality Act.


Adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, teaching business law and business ethics in the undergraduate and MBA programs.


Small claims appeals judge and judge pro tem for civil matters in the Contra Costa County Superior Court.


Published Cases:

Ayyad v. Sprint Spectrum, L.P., 210 Cal. App. 4th 851 (2012)

Figueroa v. Sharper Image, 517 F. Supp. 2d 1292 (S.D. Fla. 2007)
Acree v. General Motors Acceptance Corporation, 92 Cal. App. 4th 385 (2001)
Mangini v. Aerojet-General Corporation, 230 Cal. App. 3d 1125 (1991)

Timeline

Senior Counsel

Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser, LLC
10.1994 - 09.2021

Associate Attorney

McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen
06.1987 - 09.1994

Associate Attorney

McKenna, Conner, & Cuneo
10.1985 - 05.1987

J.D. -

University of California

Bachelor of Arts - Political Science

University of California, Berkeley
Jennifer Rosenberg