Area of Practice: Elections, Constitutional, Municipal, & Labor Law

Area of Practice: Business Litigation Ms. Ciani is a passionate and dedicated Pillsbury-trained litigator with over 32 years of litigation experience representing individuals and businesses against large corporations and government entities. She has successfully obtained complete defense verdicts and defense settlements for clients facing multimillion dollar lawsuits. When representing plaintiffs, Ms. Ciani has secured millions of dollars in settlements and jury verdicts for her clients. She has litigated complex patent infringement/trade secret, contract, tort, and antitrust cases in federal and state courts. Successes include the dismissal with prejudice at the pleadings stage of a patent infringement and tort case filed in the Central District of California against her client, a small Chinese company, as well as securing a $15 million jury verdict for her plaintiff clients in Integra vs. Merck KGaA, a biotech patent infringement case involving a promising cancer drug. Ms. Ciani successfully represented a class of California consumers against the NFL in an antitrust class action case involving NFL team apparel. She also developed and implemented plaintiffs’ damages theory in an antitrust class action case involving a billion-dollar-a-year consumer product that resulted in a very favorable settlement for the class. Ms. Ciani defended an individual and her small company in a trade secret misappropriation lawsuit filed by her former corporate employer. Not long after she filed counterclaims against the former employer for violating California’s labor statutes and other tort laws, the case settled in her client’s favor. Ms. Ciani’s extensive business experience includes co-owning and operating a very profitable sports business for 13 years, earning millions of dollars in gross sales. She draws on her business and in-house counsel experience to very effectively represent her business clients and help them achieve the best possible litigation outcome. Ms. Ciani is a former Board of Director for a child refugee nonprofit. She provided pro bono legal advice on employment law, children’s rights, and landlord/tenant matters to nonprofit servicing refugees from war-torn countries. Ms. Ciani founded a girls’ soccer program at the nonprofit to teach refugee girls that they can fully participate in every aspect of American life. Ms. Ciani is the Co-Author of the “Protecting Biotechnology” Chapter in Trade Secrets Practice in California (CEB) and the Author of “Successful Strategies for Markman Hearings” in AIPLA QJ (American Intellectual Property Law Association). Ms. Ciani is a member of the State Bar of California. She is admitted to practice before all California courts, in the United States District Court, Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California.

Board certification is the mark of a true insolvency professional. To become certified, Mr. Cibik passed a comprehensive examination and satisfied extensive practice, substantial involvement, educational and peer review requirements. In addition, Mr. Cibik has maintained considerable continuing legal education hours in the specialty area of bankruptcy. However, bankruptcy isn’t just Mr. Cibik’s specialty; it is all he does. This is what sets him apart from other Philadelphia attorneys. When preparing for an upcoming bankruptcy case, you will want Mr. Cibik’s extensive knowledge in the field of debt consolidation on your side.

Mr. Ciccarelli is admitted to practice in the following jurisdictions: California State Bar, admitted 1988, United States District Court in the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, and United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, admitted 1989. Mr. Ciccarelli is an author and certified mediator. He has authored numerous articles on various legal topics and has served as a Judge Pro Tem in the Los Angeles County Courts. In addition to Lawyers of Distinction.