Daniel Ben-Zvi, Esq.

• Entertainment contract dispute between title sponsor and producer of television game show.
• Construction defect claims against contractor of apartment complex.
• Partnership dispute involving chain of restaurants.
• Discovery Referee in class action for unfair trade practices against chain of pet stores.
• Panelist Arbitrator in vehicle lemon law cases.

• Various claims of excessive force by police officers.
• Claims of rape and extortion by women against police officers in high profile cases.
• Various wrongful death cases by estates of individuals incarcerated in government-run jails, prisons and psychiatric facilities.
• MTA bus driver accused of rape by passenger.
• Proposition 65 claims as to failure to warn of toxicity of products including paint, shoes, auto accessories, food, snacks, apparel, children products, among others.

• Propositions 13 and 8 issues involved in high profile government corruption claims against City Tax Assessor.
• City Attorney’s Office seeking injunction, abatement, and civil penalties against bar creating nuisance.
• Eminent domain and inverse condemnation claims.
• Claims by new board of Water District against two major law firms accused of violating the Brown Act by creating with the District’s prior board multi-million dollar slush funds in closed session.
• Claims involving Freedom of Information (FOIA) claims.
• Dispute between bidders of parts for public buses involving Dept of Transportation and “Buy America” mandate.
• Disability access claims to bring public transit into ADA compliance.
• Public works disputes involving various governmental bodies including claims of construction defects and false claims.
• Claims for rights of students to special education.

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• Claims involving manufacturers, distributors and dealers, including autos and lemon law, warranty and certification, and the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act, Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act, Consumer Legal Remedies Act, and Unfair Business Practices.
• Qui tam action under False Claims Act for misappropriation of grant to upgrade security from Dept of Homeland Security.
• Claim by founder of dog rescue charity to ownership of an airplane following his resignation as president of the organization.
• Shareholder dispute over the construction of a commercial, hospitality-industry property.
• PAGA claims in a multitude of diverse labor and employment cases.

• Breach of contract claims against an exclusive manufacturer of school uniforms.
• Insurance bad faith claim by insured over flood damage to hardwood floors and construction items.
• Breach of contract claims in business, real estate, construction, entertainment, technology, franchise, medical, hospitality and sports, among numerous fields.
• Internal business disputes among participants in partnerships, corporations and joint ventures.
• Dissolution and accounting in various industries, maximizing value for participants.
• Dissolution of partnership owning hit television shows.
• Distribution agreement dispute in international apparel business.
• Palimony claims between unmarried gay and straight couples.
• Cross cultural disputants involving Argentina, Armenia, Brazil, Canada, China, England, Germany, Iran, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Russia, Spain, Taiwan among others.
• Disputes between Chinese manufacturing entities and U.S. based distributors.
• Lender’s claims against Korean trust involving international real estate holdings.
• Multitude of complex, multi-million dollar, multi-party and international cases involving banking, finance, usury and real estate..
• Claim against lender for pattern of false credit reporting and damaging credit scores.
• Bankruptcy claims by trustees including preferences and voidable transfers.
• Multi-party claims by financial institutions against mortgage brokers, appraisers, real estate brokers and others for fraud in procuring mortgages.
• Various disputes involving leadership, operation and membership within religious communities, including Sikh, Hindu, Jewish and Baptist.
• B&P 17200 unfair practices claimed against financial institution for deceptive practices.
• Unfair trade practices allegation against advertiser for misleading consumers as to extent of medical services.
• Variety of consumer protection claims involving international parties and products with carcinogenic, toxic ingredients.
• Claim against plastic surgeon for deceptive ads.
• Claim against car company for unfair and deceptive terms and disclosures.
• Wide variety of matters involving loan defaults and foreclosures.
• Claim that loan modification released guarantor.
• Health care coverage claims by participant in health plan.
• Claims involving benefits under group and individual disability, life and health policies, as well as ERISA.
• Insurance issues including surety, fidelity, subrogation and bad faith.
• Insurance coverage disputes in areas including torts, environmental contamination, employment, sexual abuse, personal injury, water, fire, construction defect claims, among others.
• Claim of religious discrimination by Messianic Christians compelled to work on Sabbath.

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• Diverse claims against home inspectors involving construction defects, including water damage, scope and breaches of duty, under CA Business and Professions Code sections 7195-7199.
• Breach of construction contract claim against a contractor building the plaintiff’s restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii.
• Claims balanced on change order for geotechnical services on medical building.
• Construction defect claims made by buyer of $15 million residence.
• Construction disputes in private and public sectors, including single family homes, condominiums, apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, church, school, community center, hospital, hotel, stadium and convention center.

• Wide-ranging construction claims including design and construction defect, extra work and delay, complex insurance coverage and indemnity obligations.
• Construction defect claims by LAUSD against contractor on major remodel of school facilities.
• Public works dispute involving claims of delay, construction deficiencies and false claims by contractor of freeway work.
• Claim against neighbor for subjacent lateral support.
• Mechanics’ liens enforcement cases.
• Dispute among competing lienholders on industrial property.
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) claims of non-compliance in construction of restaurants, stores, hospitals, schools, markets, among others.
• Claim of disabled against major tour bus company for access.

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• Wrongful termination claim by manager of NBA team against owner.
• Sexual harassment claims against A-list producer by his employees in the entertainment industry.
• Disability discrimination claim by an employee with multiple sclerosis, who was terminated upon return from medical leave.
• Age discrimination claim by Assistant Controller employee of 33 years at a fruit grower cooperative.
• False Claims Act claim by a whistleblower, senior engineer in top secret space program, for unlawful use of proprietary information.

• Disability discrimination and wrongful discharge in food display sampling business.
• Misappropriation of trade secrets by former employee in oil/greases business and claim for commissions.
• Wage and hour employment claim plus retaliation for termination of computer tech after complaining about a labor code violation.
• Claim of membership interest in LLC of a gym business for the former Director of Performance.
• Disability discrimination and wrongful discharge in food display sampling business.
• Multitude of claims involving FEHA, Federal TITLE VII, EEOC for discrimination based on sex, age, race, religion and disability.
• Wrongful termination claim of elderly employee in fashion industry due to age discrimination.
• Various sexual harassment and hostile work environment claims against financial institution, restaurant chain, movie studio, among many others.
• Claim by hearing impaired for failure to accommodate.
• Failure to hire claim by African Americans against city agency whose hiring committee was composed of Latinos.
• Hundreds of claims for labor code, wage and hour violations for overtime, rest and meal breaks in wide-ranging industries, ranging from multi-nationals to single restaurants.
• Claims of misclassification of employees as independent contractors in international, technology company.
• Class action alleging employment violations brought by Federal Secretary of Labor on behalf of car wash employees against chain.
• Class actions in diverse industries alleging employment misclassification, wage and hour and other labor violations.
• Class action alleging labor code violations by limousine drivers.
• Class action for compensation for time spent by employees doffing and donning uniforms.
• Wrongful termination cases which include issues of retaliation, whistleblowing, discrimination and public policy.
• Claims in various industries in which employees were wrongly treated as exempt.
• ‘Of Counsel’ to a law firm terminated by law firm following his obtaining LA’s highest medical malpractice verdict of the year.

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• Disputes involving movie, television, video, internet and new media involving A-list actors, producers, and directors.
• Accounting disputes involving movie and television distribution to domestic and worldwide territories.
• Contract dispute between NBA basketball team and its manager.
• Dispute between partnership interests in 30 reality television shows.
• Rock singer’s right of publicity claim for unauthorized use of her caricature in popular video game.

• Case in California and Italy involving use of a model's pictures argued to be outside scope of agreement.
• Soccer player’s claim that his image on video game cover was without permission.
• Claim for defamation by fashion designer against celebrity based on statements in interview.
• Claims by writers for misappropriation of work and copyright infringement.
• Dispute among successful band’s members involving issues of management and accounting.
• Wide variety of intellectual property and trade secret disputes in fields of entertainment, computers, technology, medical instruments, books, music, photography, toys, among others.
• Copyright infringement claims involving screenplays, movies, plays, music, photographs, and computer software.
• Author's scholarly work claimed to be wrongfully incorporated into a published treatise.
• Musician’s claim to royalties for song’s use in game.

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• Cancer and other injuries claimed by workers at shipyard from working with toxic materials.
• Mass toxic torts involving serious injury and death from asbestos.
• Proposition 65 claims as to failure to warn of toxicity of products including paint, shoes, auto accessories, food, snacks, apparel, children products, among others.

• Wide variety of disputes between franchisor and franchisee(s), competing franchisors, and between franchisors and third parties.
• Diverse enforcement actions by franchisor against franchisees for breaches, such as failure of restaurant to maintain standards.
• Franchisees’ claims against franchisor for failure to advertise as promised.

• Class action for cancer and other injuries claimed by workers at shipyard from working with toxic materials.
• Multitude of lemon law cases involving wide variety of vehicles and vans.
• Sexual harassment claims against A-list star in the entertainment industry.
• Wrongful death case against city for misuse of restraints in jail on recent arrestee.
• Hundreds of personal injury claims arising from negligence, construction accidents, product liability, automobile/truck accidents, premises liability, assault and battery, slip and fall, elder abuse, wrongful imprisonment, medical malpractice, uninsured motorist, workers compensation, products liability, among others.

• Multitude of claims of wrongful death & catastrophic injuries.
• Construction worker’s foot crushed by dump truck operator backing up.
• Wrongful death claims against various government-run prison and psychiatric health facilities.
• Claims of sexual abuse cases involving mental trauma in employment and other situations.
• Claims of excessive force by bouncers in bars.
• Various claims of elder abuse against nursing homes and senior care facilities, including severe burning of a resident and financial elder abuse.
• Claim that manufacturer of cherry picker machine unreasonably allowed its usage in film industry when it tipped over causing catastrophic injury to cameraman.
• Wrongful imprisonment and false arrest claims.
• Wrongful death of maritime worker in accident while loading ship.
• Real estate brokerage house’s responsibility claimed for murder committed by its agent.
• Various defamation, libel and slander cases against the press and private parties in high profile entertainment and business cases.
• Malicious prosecution case against attorney and client in high profile case involving Academy Awards.
• Breach of warranty and product liability claims against manufacturer for personal injuries.
• Multitude of auto cases involving lemon law.
• Claims of fraud against auto company for its used car 'certification' program.

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• Cases involving trusts, estates and probate including breach of fiduciary duties of executors and trustees, undue influence and disputes under wills.
• Petition to compel return of real property to trust and surcharges for breach of trust, conversion and constructive trust.
• Son’s challenge to father’s holographic will based on relative’s undue influence.
• International family dispute involving probate, administration of trust and Korean law.
• Claim against trustee for mismanagement of family-owned business and petition to compel accounting.

• Claim that mother lacked testamentary capacity and subject to undue influence in changing will to benefit son who cared for her in final years.
• Beneficiary’s dispute over the validity of transfers to intervivos trust.
• Claim involving trustee’s right to reside in trustor’s property.
• Claim for rescission of deed by estate against decedent’s caretaker.
• Claim on behalf of elderly father by one sibling against another claiming sibling's actions individually and as trustee was financial elder abuse.
• Various claims of elder abuse, including against nursing home for severe burning of a resident allowed to smoke.

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• Legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duties claims against attorneys in different specializations.
• Claims by new board of Water District against two major law firms accused of violating the Brown Act by creating with the District’s prior board multi-million dollar slush funds in closed session.
• Disputes involving accounting malpractice, including audit and tax issues.
• Malpractice claims against doctors, dentists, and medical providers.
• Errors and omissions claims for professional liability against architects, engineers, contractors and real estate professionals.

• Claim for breaches of duties in 1031 tax-free exchange.

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• Hundreds of wide-ranging claims involving sale of residential and commercial properties for breach of contract, fraud, misrepresentation, non-disclosure, liquidated damages, and others.
• Partner in real estate venture involving seven income-producing properties claimed elder abuse, fraud, and construction defects.
• Claims involving flood damage to a lingerie store and inverse condemnation.
• Settled on fair market value of commercial lease of a restaurant and bar upon exercise of lease extension option.
• Claims of fraudulent non-disclosure of water damage in soffit of property deck.

• Cases involving planning, zoning, subdivisions, plans, boundary lines, easements and subjacent lateral support.
• Multitude of cases involving brokers and agents in allegations of breach of contract and fiduciary duties in the sale of industrial, commercial and residential properties.
• Claims among partners in real estate investment and development entities.
• Errors and omissions claims for professional liability and malpractice against architects, engineers, contractors and real estate professionals.
• Claim for rescission/reformation of deeds for fraud in sale of unimproved tracts.
• Wide variety of commercial and residential rental disputes, including breach of lease claims, rent control violations, mold, and wrongful evictions.
• Claim to security deposit due to damages incurred at leased resort over spring break.
• Actions alleging landlords’ breach of warranties of habitability in apartment buildings.
• Breach of lease alleged by owner for misuse of property as movie location.
• Disputes between financial institutions, real estate professionals, agents, mortgage and real estate brokers, and escrow officers involving claims of fraudulent loan transactions.
• Disputes involving 1031 tax-free exchanges.
• Multitude of claims involving homeowners’ associations and CC&Rs.
• Numerous and various claims involving HOA and construction, pest control methods, and maintenance.
• Title insurance coverage at issue where property sold fraudulently through identity theft.

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• Daniel Ben-Zvi provides MCLE-accredited training to bar associations, government agencies, City Attorney’s offices, law firms, law schools, and mediation groups. Topics deal with ethical and most effective practices for lawyers and mediators.
• Serves as mock judge, providing feedback to participants.