Buddy Warner's practice emphasizes commercial litigation and trials, including cases involving complex financial transactions, mortgage originations and insurance, defense of securities fraud and consumer fraud class actions, intellectual property disputes, dissolution of closely held corporations and partnerships, and construction and other real property matters.

Representative Experience:

• Recovered and collected $3 million in attorneys' fees from unsuccessful plaintiffs in arbitration concerning a mortgage origination company
• Resolved by settlement dispute between Mortgage Originator and mortgage insurance company involving $200 million in loans
• Resolved by settlement dispute between Mortgage Originator and purchaser of mortgages involving $120 million in loans
• Prevailed on summary judgment in securities fraud class action and obtained order of sanctions against plaintiffs' counsel for filing frivolous action (sanctions reversed on appeal) Successfully defended $70 million claim for fraud and breach of fiduciary duty in connection with IPO
• Successfully tried one of only two consumer fraud class actions in California under the Unfair Competition Law
• Successfully tried leading Ninth Circuit case on software copyright protection, affirmed on appeal
• Successfully disposed of five consumer fraud class actions against multilevel marketing companies
• Participated in successful recovery of $3 million in wrongfully collected taxes from U.S. Government and dismissal of $20 million in claims