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Vicki L. Freimann
Expertise
Commercial and Business Litigation
- Ms. Freimann handles complex commercial litigation and work-outs for major corporations, banks, financial institutions, and a diverse array of businesses.
- Ms. Freimann has over 25 years of representation of financial institutions throughout California in both litigation and workouts. Ms. Freimann has handled all aspects of banking defense work primarily involving bad faith claims, unfair business practices, discrimination in lending, fraud, forgeries/ check claims, operations, employee defalcation, organized crime schemes, and real estate-based issues concerning judicial foreclosures, receiverships, prejudgment remedies, and others.
- Ms. Freimann is experienced in both plaintiff and defense cases, including secured transactions, securities violations, unfair trade practices, real estate disputes, fraud claims, contract disputes, business torts, employment litigation, bad faith insurance claims, leases, receiverships, pre-judgment remedies, and related matters.
- She has successfully prosecuted and defended multi-million dollar cases for clients. For example, she successfully defended a $5.6 million bad faith and fraud case for a major financial institution, winning a 12-0 jury verdict. Most recently Ms. Freimann brought a $10 million complex commercial case involving significant punitive damage exposure to a successful conclusion the client (a Fortune 500 company) called “fabulous.”
Broad Range of Subject Matter
- Ms. Freimann is an accomplished negotiator and her incisive and rigorous pre-trial preparation often leads to successful dispute resolution such as her resolution of a $50 million unfair trade practices case for a major corporate client.
Areas of Expertise
Commercial and Business Litigation; Employment Litigation and Counseling; Trial Practice
Education
Western States University, J.D., cum laude
- Member of the Law Review
University of California at Irvine, B.A., cum laude
Professional Memberships
State Bar of California (Litigation Section)
Los Angeles County Bar Association (past Chair, Remedies Section)
Financial Lawyers Conference (Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section)
American Bar Association (Banking & Business Law Section)
Association of Business Trial Lawyers
California Women Lawyer's Association

