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Niki L. Mendoza
Ms. Mendoza joined the San Diego office in 2002.
Since joining the firm, Ms. Mendoza has helped obtain hundreds of millions of
dollars in recoveries on behalf of defrauded investors, including her
involvement in the In re El Paso
Corp. Securities Litigation,
In re Symbol Technologies Corp. Securities Litigation, and
In re Gemstar-TV Guide International,
Inc. Securities Litigation, among others.
Some of Ms. Mendoza's more notable accomplishments include assisting in a full jury trial and
achieving a rare securities fraud verdict against the company's CEO in
In re Clarent Corporations
Securities Litigation. She also recently conducted extensive fact and expert discovery, full
motion practice and completed substantial trial preparation in
In re Electronic Data Systems,
Inc. Securities Litigation, resulting in settlement just prior to trial for $137.5 million –
one of the larger settlements in non-restatement cases since the passage of the PSLRA. Ms.
Mendoza also advocates for employee rights, and is currently to end racial
steering through her prosecution of a race discrimination class action lawsuit
filed against Bank of America.
Ms. Mendoza co-authored various articles which
have been cited in federal court opinions (including
Dura Pharm., Inc. v. Broudo-The Least of All Evils, 1505 PLI/Corp. 272, 274
(Sept.2005)
and Dura-Bull: Myths of Loss Causation, 1557 PLI/Corp.
339 (Sept. 2006)). She was also a recent panel speaker at the Securities
Litigation & Enforcement Institute 2007, Practicing Legal Institute (San
Francisco, October 2007). In addition to her practice, Ms. Mendoza continues her
service as a 2008 Co-Chair of the Steering Committee of the San
Diego County Bar Association's Children At Risk committee, a committee that
works with schools and children's organizations and coordinates literacy and
enrichment programs that rely on attorney volunteers.
Ms. Mendoza received her B.A. and her J.D. from the University of Oregon,
where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and a Managing Editor of the Oregon
Law Review, for which she wrote "Rooney v. Kulongoski, Limiting the Principle of
Separation of Powers?" She served as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Chief Judge
Michael R. Hogan of the United States District Court for the District of Oregon
for three years where she received the Distinguished Service Recognition.
Before joining BLB&G, Ms. Mendoza represented both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial
and employment litigation, practicing in both Hawaii and California.
Ms. Mendoza is a member of the State Bar of California and the State
Bar of Hawaii (inactive).
She practices out of the firm's California Office.
ADMISSIONS: Admitted to bar, 1997, Hawaii. 2001, California. U.S.
District Courts for the Districts of Hawaii, and Northern, Southern, Central and Eastern Districts
of California, and the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Fifth Circuit, Ninth Circuit and Tenth
Circuit.
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