Join the OCBA for its 2013 Judges’ Night & Annual Meeting, during which Wayne R. Gross of Greenberg Traurig LLP will be installed as 2013 OCBA President. In addition to the installation of OCBA Officers, Directors, and OCBA Charitable Fund Directors, a highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the Franklin G. West Award to Hon. Francisco F. Firmat of the Orange County Superior Court.

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Greenberg Traurig partner Wayne Gross and fellow partner Alan Greenberg were featured in the Daily Journal Top Defense Verdicts of 2011 edition for their victory in the CFRI-NCA Palladium Venture LLC v. NCA Argyle LP trial.

From the article:

Some attorneys try to convince a jury that a major corporation isn’t always the bad guy. In this case, the defense counsel had to demonstrate that nonprofits aren’t always in the right

“Typically, juries view nonprofits as being different from the stereotypical greedy corporations,” said Wayne R. Gross, who represented Newport Capital Advisors LLC in a dispute with nonprofit investment manager Commonfund Realty Investors LLC. CFRI-NCA Palladium Venture LLC v. NCA Argyle LP, BC412918 (Los Angeles Super. Ct).

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Orange County attorney Wayne Gross was referenced in an LA Times article regarding investigations about Lap-Band’s alleged misleading advertising, health risks and insurance fraud.

From the article:

Wayne Gross, a former federal prosecutor who now defends white-collar cases for Greenberg Traurig in Irvine, said the Department of Insurance has a team of investigators who work with federal and state prosecutors to bring criminal charges.

Prosecutors, either with the county district attorney’s office or U.S. attorney’s office, ultimately decide whether to file charges, said Gross, who as a federal prosecutor handled a fraud case that was investigated by the Department of Insurance.

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Wayne Gross and Alan Greenberg, partners at Greenberg Traurig, were featured in a Law360 article chronicling the uphill battle they faced in a contract dispute with a nonprofit investment manager that resulted in a $50 Million win for their client.

From the article:

When nonprofit investment manager Commonfund sued real estate developer Newport Capital Advisors LLC to kill a contract dispute, it did not foresee a counter-attack by litigators from Greenberg Traurig LLP that exposed Commonfund’s seamy side and scored a whopping $50 million jury verdict.

“Throughout the trial, we took issues that could have been a weakness and turned them into strengths,” Gross said.

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Greenberg Traurig Partner, Wayne Gross, and fellow partner, Alan Greenberg, are featured in a Los Angeles Daily Journal article about their $50 million victory for a Newport Beach real estate developer.

From the article:

Newport’s lawyers at Greenberg & Traurig convinced the jury that Commonfund Realty Investors LLC rescinded a joint venture to renovate the Palladium and build several high-rise hotels and office, condominium and retail buildings. After a four-week trial, the jury last week awarded $16.3 million in compensatory damages and $33.9 million in punitive damages, finding Commonfund breached its fiduciary duty. Newport Capital Advisors LLC v. Common/und Realty Inc., 8C412918, (L.A. County Sup. Court, filed April 27,2010).

“On the one hand, NCA is trying to create architectural masterpieces, versus greed, unchecked ego and abuse of power on the part of Common fund,~ said Wayne Gross, a Greenberg & Traurig shareholder in Irvine.

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GreenbergTraurig partner Wayne Gross made his third appearance today appeared on “Inside OC,” the KOCE-TV talk show hosted by Orange County Business Journal editor Rick Reiff.

Among the topics: the California Highway Patrol’s leaking of lurid accident scene photos; a voter revolt in Laguna Hills and the recall of the Mission Viejo mayor.

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Orange County Attorney Wayne Gross was quoted in a Wall Street Journal story about backdating defendants who are complaining over alleged prosecuctorial misdeeds.

“Defense lawyers often assumed that coercive tactics by prosecutors and agents, though repugnant, would be overlooked by judges if ever brought to their attention. So defense lawyers let it go,” said Wayne Gross, former chief of the U.S. attorney’s office in Santa Ana, who now practices white-collar defense with the Irvine office of law firm Greenberg Traurig.

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Orange County Attorney Wayne Gross commented on KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz’s defense accusing federal prosecutors of manipulating witnesses in his upcoming option-backdating trial.

“What happened in Broadcom will cause defense lawyers to pursue these misconduct allegations because for the first time there’s a possibility such arguments will be heard and acted upon by judges,” said Wayne Gross, former chief of the U.S. attorney’s office in Santa Ana, who now practices white-collar defense with the Irvine office of law firm Greenberg Traurig.

“Defense lawyers often assumed that coercive tactics by prosecutors and agents, though repugnant, would be overlooked by judges if ever brought to their attention. So defense lawyers let it go,” Gross said.

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