Shaun A. Hoting
PRACTICE AREAS
- Business Litigation
- Trademark and Copyright Litigation
- Securities Litigation
- White Collar Criminal Defense
EXPERIENCE
Shaun Hoting focuses his practice on commercial and intellectual property litigation. Shaun’s practice includes litigation related to contract disputes, legal malpractice, patents, copyrights, trademarks, securities, and white collar defense. He has litigated cases involving technologies as diverse as software, cellular telephones, aerospace seals, and waterpark attractions. Shaun’s experience includes drafting motions and memoranda for all stages of litigation, including federal appeal briefs, preliminary injunction motions, motions for summary judgment, Markman briefs, and motions in limine.
From 2010-2012 he was a law clerk to the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips, now the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In 2007 Shaun was a judicial extern for the Honorable David O. Carter of the Central District.
During his federal judicial clerkship, Shaun prepared bench memoranda covering a wide array of subject matter, including breach of contract, false advertising, legal malpractice, civil rights, qui tam, wage and hour employment disputes, production and distribution disputes in the television broadcast industry, and criminal prosecutions by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Shaun was honored with a “2019 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year” award for his role as a critical member of the trial team in Yellowstone Women’s First Step House, Inc., et al. v. City of Costa Mesa.
Shaun is currently working on a plaintiff legal malpractice action with potential damages in the hundreds of millions of dollars. He drafted KA’s opposition to summary judgment by the government on a $200 million tax case in which KA’s client is the petitioner. Additionally, Shaun is the “go-to” person in the firm for complex law and motion matters of all types.
Before coming to Keller/Anderle, Shaun litigated complex commercial and intellectual property cases at a large, international law firm.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- California Lawyer Magazine CLAY Award (California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year), Litigation (2019)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers In America®, S. Naifeh & G. Smith (2020-2021), Commercial Litigation
- The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, “Top Defense Verdicts” (2018)
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Second-chaired a week-long arbitration for a preeminent water-park attraction manufacturer that resulted in an arbitration finding in the client’s favor
- Represented a prominent lens manufacturer in an arbitration with one of its distributors that resulted in a unanimous finding by the arbitration panel in the client’s favor
- Represented a cosmetics manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit that resolved in a favorable settlement for the client
- Represented a global manufacturer of consumer electronics in a patent infringement suit in E.D. Texas that resulted in a jury verdict for the client
- Represented a financial institution in multiple matters related to its mortgage issuing practices, all of which resolved favorably for the client
- Represented an apparel manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which resulted in favorable decision for the client
- Represented multiple clients under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys’ Office, each of which resulted in a declination of prosecution
- Represented multiple individuals in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, each of which resulted in no further action being taken by the Commission
- Represented company in an investigation and enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission that resolved in a favorable settlement with the Commission
PUBLICATIONS
- Co-Author, “Insider Trading Enforcement is Getting Faster, More Aggressive, and More Sophisticated,” Orange County Business Journal, April 2013
- Author, “The Kelo Revolution,” 86 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 65, 65-129, 2009
- Author, “The Crocodile in the Bathtub: An Examination of California’s System for Judicial Election,” American University Criminal Law Brief, 2, 2-15, Vol. 4 Iss. 1, 2009
MEDIA
- March 27, 2019 – “Daily Journal” CLAY Award profile – “Writing the legal blueprint for cities as it relates to sober-living homes”
EDUCATION
- UCLA School of Law, J.D., 2008
- UCLA Entertainment Law Review, Member
- UCLA Journal of Law and Technology, Member
- University of California at Berkeley, B.A. with highest honors, 2003
CLERKSHIP
- Law Clerk, the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2010-2012
EXTERNSHIP
- Extern, the Honorable David O. Carter, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, 2007
- The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, “Top Defense Verdicts” (2018)
- Listed in The Best Lawyers In America®, S. Naifeh & G. Smith (2020-2021), Commercial Litigation
- California Lawyer Magazine CLAY Award (California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year), Litigation (2019)
Irvine, California 92612-1057
