For New Jackson Lewis Lateral Litigator, A Shift Change
Jackson Lewis has brought on litigation partner Kristopher Badame in Irvine, California, from his own plaintiffs' shop in nearby Lake Forest. Badame, who coaches amateur hockey in his spare time, will transition his practice to doing corporate defense work at his new firm.
April 06, 2017 at 07:14 PM
29 minute read
It's not uncommon for lawyers to get some defense experience and then crossover to the plaintiffs' side.
But Kristopher Badame did the opposite this week, leaving Badame & Associates, the small plaintiffs' firm he founded almost a decade ago in Lake Forest, California, to join Jackson Lewis' Orange County office in nearby Irvine as a partner.
Badame said he had gone up against Jackson Lewis many times in his career and had always been impressed by the skill of its lawyers. When Jackson Lewis' Orange County managing partner, Samantha Hoffman, started trying to recruit him to the firm a year-and-a-half ago, Badame was intrigued, but didn't feel that he could walk away from the class actions he was then running, which included cases against Southwest Airlines Co. and Uber Technologies Inc.
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