Appellate Practice Commercial Litigation
Shaun A. Hoting
Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2020 Awarded Practice Areas
Biography
PRACTICE AREAS
- Trials
- Commercial Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Insurance Recovery/Bad Faith
- Legal Malpractice
EXPERIENCE
Shaun Hoting focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation. Shaun’s practice includes litigation related to legal malpractice, contract disputes, patents, copyrights, trademarks, securities, and white collar defense. He has litigated cases involving technologies as diverse as software, cellular telephones, aerospace seals, and waterpark attractions. Shaun’s experience includes drafting motions and memoranda for all stages of litigation, including federal appeal briefs, preliminary injunction motions, motions for summary judgment, Markman briefs, and motions in limine.
Shaun was one of the firm’s primary attorneys for a plaintiff-side legal malpractice action with damages topping nearly $1 billion dollars. He drafted KA’s opposition to summary judgment by the government on a $200 million tax case in which KA’s client is the petitioner. Additionally, Shaun is the “go-to” person in the firm for complex law and motion matters of all types.
From 2010-2012 he was a law clerk to the Honorable Virginia A. Phillips, former Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In 2007 Shaun was a judicial extern for the Honorable David O. Carter of the Central District of California.
During his federal judicial clerkship, Shaun prepared bench memoranda covering a wide array of subject matter, including breach of contract, false advertising, legal malpractice, civil rights, qui tam, wage and hour employment disputes, production and distribution disputes in the television broadcast industry, and criminal prosecutions by the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Shaun was honored with a “2019 California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year” award for his role as a critical member of the trial team in Yellowstone Women’s First Step House, Inc., et al. v. City of Costa Mesa. Shaun is also listed in The Law Dragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, among the most prestigious international legal directories, and has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America from 2020-2022.
Before coming to Keller/Anderle, Shaun litigated complex commercial and intellectual property cases at a large, international law firm.
PUBLICATIONS
- Co-Author, “Insider Trading Enforcement is Getting Faster, More Aggressive, and More Sophisticated,” Orange County Business Journal, April 2013
- Author, “The Kelo Revolution,” 86 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 65, 65-129, 2009
- Author, “The Crocodile in the Bathtub: An Examination of California’s System for Judicial Election,” American University Criminal Law Brief, 2, 2-15, Vol. 4 Iss. 1, 2009
MEDIA
- March 27, 2019 – “Daily Journal” CLAY Award profile – “Writing the legal blueprint for cities as it relates to sober-living homes”
Overview
- University of California - Los Angeles, J.D., graduated 2008
- University of California Berkeley, B.A., graduated 2003
- California, State Bar of California
- Orange County Bar Association - Administration of Justice Committee
- Orange County Bar Association - Legislative Resolutions Committee
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth, Eleventh and D.C Circuits
- United States District Courts for Southern District of California, the Southern District of Florida, and the District of the District of Columbia
- California - Trial Courts
- California, State Bar of California
- Orange County Bar Association - Administration of Justice Committee
- Orange County Bar Association - Legislative Resolutions Committee
- University of California - Los Angeles, J.D., graduated 2008
- University of California Berkeley, B.A., graduated 2003
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth, Eleventh and D.C Circuits
- United States District Courts for Southern District of California, the Southern District of Florida, and the District of the District of Columbia
- California - Trial Courts
Client Testimonials
Awards & Focus
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for work in:
- Appellate Practice
- Commercial Litigation
Additional Areas of Practice:
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Legal Malpractice Law - Plaintiffs
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Patent
Awards:
- The Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America (2023)
- California Lawyer Magazine CLAY Award (California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year), Litigation (2019)
- The Best Lawyers In America®, S. Naifeh & G. Smith (2020-2022), Commercial Litigation
- Los Angeles Magazine, Southern California Super Lawyers®, Civil Litigation Defense (2022)
- The Los Angeles and San Francisco Daily Journals, “Top Defense Verdicts” (2018)
News & Media
Case History
Cases
- Arbitration - water-park attraction manufacture
Second-chaired a week-long arbitration for a preeminent water-park attraction manufacturer that resulted in an arbitration finding in the client’s favor.
- Billion-dollar malpractice case against an AmLaw 100 firm
Represented a consumer finance lender in its billion-dollar malpractice case against an AmLaw 100 firm.
- Breach of contract
Represented a consumer plastics recycler in a case resulting in a favorable settlement for the client.
- Arbitration - lens manufacturer
Represented a prominent lens manufacturer in an arbitration with one of its distributors that resulted in a unanimous finding by the arbitration panel in the client’s favor.
- Trademark infringement - cosmetics manufacturer
Represented a cosmetics manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit that resolved in a favorable settlement for the client.
- Patent infringement - global manufacturer of consumer electronics
Represented a global manufacturer of consumer electronics in a patent infringement suit in E.D. Texas that resulted in a jury verdict for the client.
- Financial institution - mortgage issuing practices
Represented a financial institution in multiple matters related to its mortgage issuing practices, all of which resolved favorably for the client.
- Apparel manufacturer - trademark infringement
Represented an apparel manufacturer in a trademark infringement suit before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which resulted in favorable decision for the client.
- Investigation by the U.S. Attorneys’ Office
Represented multiple clients under investigation by the U.S. Attorneys’ Office, each of which resulted in a declination of prosecution.
- Investigations by SEC - individuals
Represented multiple individuals in investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission, each of which resulted in no further action being taken by the Commission.
- Investigations by SEC - company
Represented company in an investigation and enforcement action by the Securities and Exchange Commission that resolved in a favorable settlement with the Commission.
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