Call & Jensen recently defended, successfully, a prominent real estate developer accused of building and selling, for $100M, a 300,000 square foot shopping center which was alleged by the buyer to have been filled with “defective tenants.” The matter was resolved by a confidential settlement favorable to Call & Jensen’s client. The case was handled by Call & Jensen attorneys Wayne Call and Scott Hatch.

Call & Jensen is proud to announce that attorneys Jacqueline Beaumont and Shirin Forootan were recently selected by the Orange County Business Journal as 2016 “Women in Business” nominees. The awards honor business and professional OC women whose accomplishments positively impact the OC business community. Ms. Beaumont is an experienced litigator who has been repeatedly recognized for her work representing employers in all aspects of employment law and legal advising. She is a leader outside the office as well, co-chairing the Orange County Bar Association’s Mommy Esquire Committee, and serving the community through involvement with Girls Inc. and student moot court competitions. Ms. Forootan’s legal practice also focuses on representing and advising employers, which she has been doing exclusively for the past five years. In addition, Ms. Forootan is dedicated to her community—currently serving as Co-Chair of Orange County United Way’s Women United and recently serving as Co-Chair of the Orange County Bar Association’s Community Outreach Committee and Mommy Esquire Committee. She also regularly presents on “teenage legal survival skills” to high-school students in Orange County.

Call & Jensen attorneys recently secured an attorney’s fees award of more than $1.6 million for their client. The award followed the complete dismissal of a $10 million lender liability action against one of the firm’s bank clients and a $4 million judgment for the bank against the plaintiff in the action. The case was litigated by Call & Jensen attorneys Wayne W. Call and Todd C. Bouton.

Call & Jensen was again named to Orange County Business Journal’s list of the Top Law Firms operating in Orange County. The firm is pleased to be recognized and ranked #34 on the list of 86 firms reported by the OCBJ. Overall, more than 1,000 law firms, composed of over 16,000 attorneys, operate in Orange County.

Call & Jensen attorneys David Sugden and Jacqueline Beaumont obtained a complete arbitration victory for their client, a professional services organization, in an employment discrimination lawsuit made under California’s Fair Employment & Housing Act. The claimant had initially filed the lawsuit in civil court, but the Firm successfully compelled arbitration. Following the arbitration hearing on the merits, the arbitrator entered an award for the Firm’s client on all causes of action, including discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, and failure to provide reasonable accommodation. Call & Jensen obtained judgment on each issue presented, including a ruling that Call & Jensen’s client, who was alleged to be a joint employer, did not hold the requisite responsibility over the claimant’s employment to be charged with a duty to engage in the interactive process.

Call & Jensen is proud to be represented this year with firm attorneys in multiple leadership positions with the Orange County Bar Association. Joshua Simon is chair of the OCBA’s Banking & Lending section, and Mark Eisenhut is a member of the OCBA’s Judicial Selection committee. Jacqueline Beaumont co-chairs the OCBA’s Mommy Esq. committee, and Todd Bouton is an executive committee member and past chair of the OCBA’s Banking & Lending section. In addition, several of the firm’s attorneys hold leadership positions with affiliate bar associations: Wayne Call is a member of the Board of Governors for the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers (ABTL); and Deborah Gubernick, past chair of the Orange County Chapter of the J. Reuben Clark Law Society, is currently an Assistant Area Director for the International J. Reuben Clark Law Society. The OCBA is one of the largest voluntary bar associations in California, with over 9,000 members, and provides a variety of programs, services, and opportunities for its attorney members, the judiciary, and the community.