David King is a versatile and accomplished civil trial attorney with more than 25 years of experience. He has tried cases in several states for both plaintiffs and defendants on a broad range of matters, including business, real estate, insurance and personal injury/product liability disputes. Recently, he has handled unfair competition claims, copyright infringement cases, and employment cases for both employers and employees.

Because of his trial experience, Mr. King is often asked by other attorneys to handle, or appear as co-counsel in, lawsuits that are going to trial.

Examples of Mr. King’s cases include the following:

• He successfully sued the City of South Pasadena for civil rights violations on behalf of the former mayor and, after a seven week trial, obtained a verdict of $1.2 million plus attorneys’ fees.

• He was joint trial counsel in a San Diego land development fraud and malpractice dispute. After a nearly three-month trial, the jury returned a verdict over $4,000,000. With attorney’s fees, interest and settlements by various parties, the total recovery for the clients was approximately $8,000,000.

• He served as co-counsel an eminent domain trial representing a landowner whose property was being taken by the Redevelopment Agency for the City of Hawthorne. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the landowner of $2,482,000.

• Mr. King participated in a five week personal injury trial against the County of Los Angeles alleging that a faulty road design contributed to the client’s accident. The jury agreed, returning a verdict in excess of $4,300,000.

• Mr. King and his co-counsel recovered $4.5 million for a condominium association in a construction defect case by way of settlements and arbitration against the developer, contractor, sub-contractors and insurance carriers.

• Mr. King was brought in on the eve of trial to defend clients who were being sued on multi-million dollar personal guarantees (the guarantees had been acquired by a financial institution). Mr. King immediately tracked down and investigated witnesses who had not before been located. After Mr. King announced ready for trial and the financial institution learned of Mr. King’s work, the financial institution settled for $3,000.

• He defended a client who was sued on a personal guarantee for $6,000,000. Combing through thousands of documents, Mr. King found defects in the facts alleged. The case settled for less than two percent of the claim, payable in three installments.

Mr. King focuses on his clients’ economic goals, developing strategic solutions for trial or settlement to meet those goals.

Educational Background
1984 – J.D., The University of Chicago Law School
1981 – B.A., The University of Tennessee

David King

King Cheng Miller & Jin, LLP
150 N Santa Anita Avenue, Suite 410, Arcadia, CA 91006
(626) 304-9001 (Phone)
(626) 304-9002 (Fax)

For more information, please call 626-304-9001 

Tonnie Cheng  graduated from Southwestern University School of Law with a JD degree in the Fall of 1994 and was admitted to the California Bar the same year.  Before turning to her own private practice, Ms. Cheng worked for an LA downtown firm in family law, immigration law, business formation and contracting.  For the past twenty years, she has successfully negotiated and litigated multimillion-dollar family law cases involving complicated matters of commingled community /quasi-community/quasi-marital properties, jurisdiction, conflict of law, validity of marriages, validity of contracts between married and non-married couples, custody and support issues, both in long-cause and short trials.  She is certified as a Family Law Specialist by the California Bar Association. She has also been taking an active role in and supervising junior attorneys/clerks in immigration law cases involving multinational executive/managerial transfers, persons with national or international acclaims in science/art/business, professional/skill workers and others, investment immigration, and has handled complicated issues such as labor certification exemption, schedule A immigration, bases for and remedies to removal/deportation charges.  She has represented famous entities and individuals from Asia and the local Asian community.  Up to 90% of the clients she has represented are referred by attorneys or former clients.   

Tonnie Cheng

(Cantonese, Mandarin, and English Spoken)

150 N Santa Anita Avenue, Suite 410, Arcadia, CA 91006

Main: (626) 308-7860

Fax: (626) 308-7875 

For more information, please call (626) 308-7860

Katharine A. Miller has been practicing law as a litigator continuously since January 1987.  She represents individuals, private entities, and municipalities in cases that span business, real estate, land use, construction, property, contracts, trade secrets, municipal law, environmental law, and constitutional rights.

Over the years, she has been called upon to represent plaintiffs and defendants in a wide range of matters, demonstrating the flexibility and tenacity to do what it takes to succeed in different areas of law and throughout all the stages of the litigation process. She focuses on the strategies that will best serve the client’s interests, and she works aggressively and diligently to achieve those interests.

Oftentimes, Ms. Miller is sought-out for her skilled legal writing, including writing, arguing, and winning dispositive motions and appeals.

Ms. Miller also has extensive experience with the land use administrative process, as well as with other non-litigation business, employment, municipal, and real estate issues.  In these matters, she puts her years of experience in litigation to use in working with clients and in negotiating to try to avoid disputes that could otherwise turn into litigation.

Ms. Miller graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 1977, magna cum laude, and from Whittier Law School in 1986, summa cum laude.  After graduating from law school, she clerked for Judges Ross and Whollman in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

King Cheng Miller & Jin, LLP
150 N Santa Anita Avenue, Suite 410, Arcadia, CA 91006
(626) 304-9001 (Phone)
(626) 304-9002 (Fax)

For more information, please call 626-304-9001 

Sheng Jin receieved his first law degree as an L.L.B. graduate from Fudan University School of Law (Shanghai, China) in 1999. He graduated from University of Maryland School of Law in 2003 with J.D. degree. Then he spent one year studying tax law at Northwestern University School of Law's Graduate Tax Program and received his LLM in Taxation in 2004. During his school years in Maryland, he worked as research assistant for the law school's East Asian Legal Studies Program. Mr. Jin has extensive knowledge of California and Chinese legal systems. He is heavily involved in business and family law litigations. Mr. Jin is fluent in English, Mandarin Chinese and Shanghai dialect. He has been a member of the California Bar since 2003.

Sheng Jin

King Cheng Miller & Jin, LLP

150 N Santa Anita Avenue, Suite 410, Arcadia, CA 91006

Main: (626) 308-7860; fax (626) 308-7875

For more information, please call (626) 308-7860 

Gregory N Albright

 EDUCATIONAL AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 

Juris Doctor, cum laude, Order of the Coif, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas 1989; 

Completed course work for Doctor of Musical Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas 1984-86; 

Master of Music (music composition), magna cum laude, Southwestern Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas, 1982; 

Bachelor of Music (piano performance), magna cum laude, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas 1979. 

Admitted to practice: 

All California state courts; 

Second, Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals; 

federal District Courts for the Northern and Central Districts of California. 

PRESENT POSITION 

Law Office of Gregory N. Albright since 1997. 

In consultation with numerous firms, represents clients in intellectual property and complex commercial trial and appellate litigation, specializing in copyright, trademark, trade secret, and unfair competition disputes. 

EXPERIENCE BEFORE PRESENT POSITION 

O’Melveny & Myers LLP, Los Angeles, California, 1989-96; 

Complex commercial litigation, specializing in copyright, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, and entertainment industry disputes. 

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES 

State Bar of California, since 1990; 

Los Angeles County Bar Association; 

Copyright Society of the USA. 

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION 

Trial and appellate litigation, specializing in copyright, trademark, trade secret, unfair competition, and entertainment industry disputes. 

EXPERIENCE IN INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY 

Counsel in numerous lawsuits representing entertainment companies and other owners of intellectual property, including Paramount Pictures Corporation, Warner Bros. Inc., the Walt Disney Company, Home Box Office, Time Warner Sports Merchandising, Hyundai Broadcasting Systems, IBM, Mars, Inc., Uncle Ben’s, Inc., Gannett Satellite Information Network, Inc., E*Capital Corporation, and Electro Optical Industries, Inc., in domestic and international disputes regarding trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair competition, domain names, and agreements regarding intellectual property rights. Counsel in opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial & Appeal Board, United States Patent & Trademark Office. 

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS 

“Tangled Web -- Passive Internet Activity and Personal Jurisdiction”, Los Angeles Daily Journal (March 20, 1998); 

“Digital Sound Sampling and the Copyright Act of 1976: Are Isolated Sounds Protected?” 38 Copyright L. Symp (ASCAP) 47 (1992); 

The "Work Made for Hire" Definition in the 1976 Copyright Act: A Simple Dichotomy, 26 Hous. L. Rev. 361 (1989).

Mr. Colbert has over 40 years of experience in complex litigation.  Following a clerkship with the Hon. Shirley M. Hufstedler of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Mr. Colbert joined O’Melveny & Myers LLP in 1971, becoming a partner in 1978 and practicing litigation at that firm for 34 years.  In 2005, Mr. Colbert became a prosecutor in the Office of the Los Angeles City Attorney where he worked for the next 6 years, helping to establish the unit in that office responsible for prosecuting complex actions under the Unfair Competition Law (California Business & Professions Code §17200 et seq.) and other statutes authorizing similar civil law enforcement actions.  Mr. Colbert joined King Cheng & Miller in the fall of 2011.

Mr. Colbert has practiced extensively at the trial and appellate level, handling a wide variety of cases.

·      At the trial level, he has tried numerous cases to juries or to the bench in the Superior Courts for Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernadino, Ventura, Santa Barbara, Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties, and in the federal district courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California, the District of Arizona and the District of the United States Virgin Islands.  He has also been lead counsel on an even greater number of cases in state and federal courts throughout California and in federal courts in many other states that were resolved short of trial.

·      At the appellate level, he has briefed and argued dozens of matters before state and federal appellate panels.  Cases in which Mr. Colbert was lead counsel in both briefing and arguing the matter include cases heard by the United States Supreme Court, the California Supreme Court, the federal Courts of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the Federal Circuit, and Courts of Appeal for the First, Second, Fourth and Sixth Appellate Districts.

·      Mr. Colbert has handled substantial matters in the following areas: professional responsibility of lawyers and accountants; federal antitrust law; federal and state securities law; consumer protection, including California’s unfair competition law; intellectual property; employment law; land use regulation, including state and federal environmental review of projects; eminent domain; class actions; public utilities; public finance; and California contract and tort law.

Education

Harvard Law School,  J.D. 1970, 

magna cum laude

Member, Harvard Law Review

Yale College,  A.B. 1967,  magna cum laude     

 Member, Phi Beta Kappa

James W. Colbert III

King Cheng Miller & Jin, LLP
150 N Santa Anita Avenue, Suite 410, Arcadia, CA 91006
(626) 304-9001 (Phone)
(626) 304-9002 (Fax)

For more information, please call 626-304-9001