Bill Frimel concentrates in complex business and technology litigation.

His focus includes contract and business disputes; intellectual property, trade secrets and proprietary rights; real estate and lease disputes; and banking, creditor rights, workouts and equipment leasing. He also focuses on Internet, spam and application implementation and hosting; distribution and licensing agreements; unfair competition; business torts; partnership disputes; and insurance disputes and coverage. Mr. Frimel also has experience in alternative dispute resolution, arbitrations, trial preparation and counseling, including litigation avoidance.

Representative Matters

• Approximately 20 jury trials, court trials, and binding arbitrations.
• Commercial and business litigation of all types and sizes.
• Internet litigation: domain name disputes, unsolicited commercial e-mail or "spam" litigation, advertising and click-through disputes, application hosting and implementation disputes.
• Intellectual property, trade secret, and proprietary rights litigation protecting clients’ core and most important assets.
• Contract and UCC disputes: purchase orders, distribution and licensing agreements, manufacturing agreements, collaboration agreements.
• Banking litigation: commercial banking matters, equipment financing, problem loans, and workouts.
• Real estate and lease disputes: real estate disputes of all types, purchase-sale agreements, landlord-tenant disputes, unlawful detainer actions, and constructive eviction.
• Insurance coverage and dispute litigation concerning all types of claims and business losses.

Admissions

• California

Publications

• "Insurer Liability Under CERCLA: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished," Environmental Claims Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, (Autumn, 1996);
• "The Business Judgment Rule in Light of the Paramount v. Time Decision," Public Law Research Institute, 1991.

Clerk Information

• Law Clerk to Hon. Harvey Schneider, Los Angeles Superior Court, 1991