Position: Partner
Telephone: (310) 556-7900
Email: Timothy Hughes
Born: Altadena, California, March 20, 1951

Practice Areas:
Real Estate, Business, Construction, Complex Litigation

Education:
J.D., Hastings College of Law, University of California, 1976
B.A., Loyola University of Los Angeles, 1973 (summa cum laude)

Admitted:
California, 1978
U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Cir. (1994), U.S. District Courts
(C.D., Cal. - 1992; N.D., Cal. - 2002; N.D. Ohio - 1998, pro hac vice; Dist. of
Idaho - 1999 pro hac vice; Dist. of Oregon - 2002 Pro hac vice)

Memberships:
State Bar of California
Association of Southern California Defense Counsel

Summary:
A native Californian, Tim graduated from Loyola University of Los Angeles, with the highest academic average for his class and received the Ignatian Award as the senior most distinguished in leadership and service to the University and student body.

As in-house counsel and a senior corporate officer for Caesars World, Inc. and its subsidiaries and Heitman Properties Ltd. and Heitman Advisory Corporation, Tim has negotiated and consummated at least 2500 real estate transactions. He also provided general corporate counsel in the areas of securities law compliance, public offerings, entertainment contracts, institutional financing and administrative law issues in the heavily regulated casino gaming industry.

Tim's areas of practice with the firm include business, commercial, real estate and construction transactional law and litigation. Tim’s litigation experience includes complex civil trial and appellate practice in a broad range of cases proceeding to verdict or judgment. He has served as lead counsel in several multi-party, multi-jurisdictional and multi-million dollar cases involving construction defects; private and public works contract disputes; alleged fraud in foreign currency option trading actions; false comparative advertising claims, wrongful death and catastrophic injury actions; landslide and earth movement cases; corporate and partnership dissolution and fraud actions; commercial real estate disputes and international commercial disputes. Since 2002, practice areas have expanded to litigation and transactional matters involving international law (France, Mexico, Japan, Korea and Germany).

Notable Achievements Include:

Defense favorable settlement valued at less than $1,000,000 present value, compromising adverse plaintiffs’ claims exceeding $59,000,000 plus punitive damages in a complex partnership/real estate transaction dispute. Adverse parties’ legal fees and costs were reported to exceed settlement amount by multiple of 5 to 6 times. Settlement was achieved after 7 weeks in trial (2006, California).

Defense favorable mediated settlement in class action wage & hour dispute valued at less than $500,000, compromising more than $2.9 million in alleged damages (2005, California).

Damage control and defense of $29,000,000 claim, resulting in reduced verdict of $16,640,000 against client in international contract dispute between two airlines (2003, U.S.D.C - Ore).

Successful defense and obtaining judgment denying entirety of $47,000,000 claim in federal court action involving acquisition of major Korean telecommunications company (2002, U.S.D.C - N.D. Cal.).

Obtaining $38,300,000 plaintiff’s verdict in partnership, fraud, and breach of fiduciary duty action (2001, 9th largest verdict in California that year).

Plaintiff's settlement (in conjunction with Paul Fine) of products liability action for $14,000,000 (1999, California).

Defense verdict (in conjunction with Paul Fine) in alleged multi-million dollar landslide action (1998, California).