Bijan Esfandiari

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Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 21 years of experience

Class Actions, Litigation, Consumer Law, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Whistleblower, Wrongful Death

10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1600, Los Angeles, CA 90024

About Bijan Esfandiari

Practice Areas

Education

University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, California, June, 2002
J.D.
- Honors: Moot Court Honors Program
- Law Journal: UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, Member, 1999 - 2000
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, 1999
B.A.
- Major: History
- Honors: cum laude

Languages

Representative Cases

Berg & Berg Enterprises, LLC v. Sherwood Partners, Inc., et al., 131 Cal.App.4th 802 (Court of Appeals, 6th District, California 2005)
Tucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 596 F.Supp.2d 1225 (2008)
Knipe v.SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 553 (2008)
Forst v. Smithkline Beecham Corp., 639 F.Supp.2d 948 (2009)
Mason v. SmithKline Beecham Corp, 596 F.3d 387 (7th Circuit 2010)
Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., 699 F.Supp.2d 1142
Cabana v. Stryker Biotech, LLC et al., Case No. BC465313 (2012)
Knipe v. SmithKline Beecham, 583 F.Supp.2d 602 (E.D.Pa. 2008)
Cunningham v. SmithKline Beecham, 255 F.R.D. 474 (N.D.Ind. 2009)
Forst v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 602 F.Supp.2d 960 (E.D.Wis. 2009)
ucker v. SmithKline Beecham Corp., 701 F.Supp.2d 1040 (S.D.Ind.2010)
Dorsett v. Sandoz, Inc., 699 F.Supp.2d 1142 (C.D.Cal. 2010)
Cabana v. Stryker Biotech, LLC et al., Case No. BC465313, 2012 WL 3729227 (Cal.Super. Ct., August 20, 2012)
McCormick v. Medtronic, Inc., 219 Md. App. 485, 101 A.3d 467 (2014)
Boutte v. Stryker Biotech, LLC, 67 F. Supp. 3d 732, 734 (M.D. La. 2014)
Hricik v. Stryker Biotech, LLC, 89 F. Supp. 3d 694 (E.D. Pa. 2015)

Classes and Seminars

Strategies for Litigating Copyright Cases When Infringement is Uncontested, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, February 17, 2006
Oral Advocacy Competition Participant, ABA Forum on Communications Law, Media Advocacy Workshop, American Bar Association, February 8, 2007
Legal Implications of Pharmaceutical Ghostwriting, Faculty of Law’s Conference, The Ethics of Ghost Authorship in Biomedical Research: Concerns and Remedies Workshop, University of Toronto, May 4, 2011
Living with the Mensing Decision, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Actors and Pelvic Mesh Litigation Update, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 8, 2012
Panel: Corruption, Selling Sickness, Selling Sickness, People Before Profits, Session VI, Washington, D.C., February 20, 2013 - February 22, 2013
Status of the Infuse Litigation, Mass Torts Made Perfect, Medtronic Infuse Litigation Update, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 10, 2013
Medtronic InFUSE Litigation Group, Status of Cases That Have Survived Preemption Motions and Discovery Strategies and Different Venue Options, American Association for Justice, AAJ Annual Convention, July 26, 2014 - July 30, 2014

Bar Admissions

Other Affiliations

Published Works

Camisoles: Providing Thin Protection, IP Law 360, 2006
YouTube Sued: It's a Riot, American Bar Association, Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, Media Privacy Committee Newsletter, 2006
Contributing Author to The Docket, UCLA School of Law Publication
Grokster: Inducing Further Litigation – ABA Tort Trial & Practice Section, Intellectual Property Law Committee Newsletter, Fall, 2005
Caught Without a License – Marketing Management – Marketing Law, November/December, 2007
Complete Tort Immunity For Drug Manufacturers Is Bad For The Public Health: A Commentary On Colacicco v. Apotex And Other Recent Preemption Decisions – LexisNexis Mealey’s Litigation Report: Antidepressant Report, Volume 4, Issue #10, May, 2008
Preemption’s Requiem in the Wake of Wyeth v. Levine – LexisNexis Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & Devices, Volume 14, Issue #10, May, 2009
Outsmarting the ‘Learned-Intermediary Doctrine’ Defense – The Advocate, February 2010, pg 62
Levine To Mensing — A Journey From The Sublime To The Ridiculous – LexisNexis Mealey’s Emerging Drugs & Devices, Volume 16, Issue #16, August 18, 2011
Reason Magazine Perpetuates False Information About Safety and Efficacy of Antidepressants, September 30, 2011
Challenging Medical Ghostwriting in US Courts – PLOS Medicine, January 24, 2012

Bijan Esfandiari

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Address:: 10940 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1600, Los Angeles, CA 90024

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