Paul S. Malingagio is a partner in the Business Trial Group in the Los Angeles office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, where he specializes in civil litigation, with an emphasis in the trial of complex and technology driven business matters and alternative dispute resolution.

Areas of Practice

General Civil Litigation: intellectual property, patents, trade secrets, unfair competition, corporate securities, real estate, product liability, and financial institutions.

Financial Institutions Litigation: lender liability, security interests, uniform commercial code, commercial loan defaults, attachments, claim and delivery, receivers, judicial foreclosures, injunctions, relief from stay proceedings, non-dischargeability of debt, objections to discharge.

Alternative Dispute Resolution: significant experience with most forms of alternative dispute resolution, including complex arbitration hearings and mediations with the American Arbitration Association and J.A.M.S., arbitration of patent infringement claims, and trials with judges pro tem. Appointed by the Los Angeles Superior Court to serve as the hearing officer in more than two dozen judicial arbitrations.