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Biography
James
Rossi is a vice-president of Crandall, Wade and Lowe, and is based in the
Los Angeles County office.
James manages the firm's Workers' Compensation department. His practice primarily focuses on aggressively defending various self insured employers, third party administrators, and insurance carriers in workers' compensation cases brought by workers alleging work related injuries. Further, James has successfully defended numerous claims for serious and willful misconduct penalties, as well as L.C. §132(a) discrimination penalties. James regularly handles cases in several WCAB offices in the Southern California area, including, Oxnard, Van Nuys, Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Santa Ana, Long Beach, Marina Del Rey, Pomona, Riverside, and San Bernardino.
James also has experience handling a wide variety of civil litigation matters. He has been successful in the California trial and appellate courts, as well as the federal courts. Some of his experience includes handling issues of insurance law (i.e., automobile accidents, fraud, and bad faith), catastrophic personal injuries (i.e., wrongful death, loss of use of limbs, and psychological injuries), intellectual property (i.e., domain name disputes, trade secret misappropriation, trademark infringement), business litigation (i.e., contractual breaches, and claims under the Business and Professions Code), and appeals/writs (i.e. jurisdiction of the federal district court, building code interpretation, illegal jury verdicts, and venue).
James was named a "Southern California Rising Star" by Law and Politics in 2005 through 2007, and honored as such in Los Angeles Magazine and Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine, which identifies him as being among the top 2.5% of up and coming lawyers
In 2006, James handled an appeal before the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals pertaining to issues of the federal court's jurisdiction. The issues were matters of first impression in the 9th Circuit. Ultimately, James' appeal was granted on all issues in favor of his client and the 9th Circuit issued a published opinion creating new controlling legal precedent. See Lively v. Wild Oats Markets, 456 F.3d 933 (9th Cir. 2006). Subsequently, the plaintiff petitioned the United States Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. James successfully opposed the petition, which was denied in its entirety, leaving the new law undisturbed.
In May 2002, James' article "Protection for Trademark Owners: The Ultimate System of Regulating Search Engine Results" was the lead article in Volume 42, Number 2, of the Santa Clara Law Review.
During law school, James was in the Moot Court Program at Loyola where he was awarded for his performance in competition and was a Justice of the Moot Court Honors Board. He was on the Dean's List, and named to the best defense team in his trial advocacy class. Additionally, he was a law clerk in the civil department of Crandall, Wade & Lowe, starting the summer of his first year of law school, and has been with the firm ever since.
James enjoys judging moot court competitions. He judges both national and school competitions.
James is admitted to practice before all California State Courts. He is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the United States Supreme Court.
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