Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Lawyer Overview

John Vogt is an experienced trial lawyer who has represented corporate and governmental clients of all sizes and from varying industries in matters of utmost significance to their operations and interests. John has lead lawyer experience in highly complicated class actions, multiplaintiff labor and employment disputes, securities litigation, heavy civil construction, intellectual property litigation, and "bet the company" commercial disputes in state and federal trial and appellate courts and in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. John has tried jury and bench cases to a defense verdict, successfully briefed and argued dispositive motions, and obtained or preserved success in several appellate courts, including the California Supreme Court.

John regularly provides litigation-related counseling to corporations and corporate boards on matters involving corporate transactions and agreements, trade secret protection, heavy civil construction, indemnification disputes, electronic discovery, and intellectual property protection. Fortune 500 companies and large governmental agencies regularly call on John to provide advice on their most difficult and complex legal issues.

For the past five years, John has been recognized by Law & Politics magazine as one of Southern California's "Super Lawyer Rising Stars." John is listed by the Cambridge "Who's Who" registry as one its top professionals.

John is editor of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers in Orange County. He also is a member of the State Bar of California, the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and the Orange County Bar Association. John devotes considerable time to pro bono clients, including serving as outside counsel to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, a nonprofit public benefit corporation.

Areas of Practice

• Trial Practice
• Construction

Representative Cases

• Allfast. v. Textron Aerospace Fasteners
• Baker v. STERIS, Inc., et al.
• Berglund v. Parker Hannifin, Corp., et al.
• Breed, et al. v. Raytheon
• Composite Technology Corp. v. Acquvest, Inc., et al.
• Creative Products Group v. Decolec Co., Ltd. (AAA International Centre for Dispute Resolution)
• George Frank, et al. v. County of Los Angeles ("Frank II")
• George Frank, et. al. v. County of Los Angeles ("Frank I")
• Hall v. County of Los Angeles
• Holmgren v. County of Los Angeles, , 159 Cal.App.4th 593 (2008). Appeal No. B194130, ___ Cal.App.4th ___, 71 Cal. Rptr. 3d 611 (Jan. 30, 2008); Shiell v. County of Los Angeles, Appeal No. B194042 (unpublished)
• In re Retirement Cases
• Lin, et al. v. First Franklin, et al.
• Obayashi Corporation v. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority
• Saline v. Commonwealth Energy Corp., et al.
• Schifando v. City of Los Angeles, 31 Cal.4th 1074 (2003)
• Shiell, et al. v. County of Los Angeles, et al., and related Employment Class Actions
• State of Cal. v. Lauher,(2003) 30 Cal. 4th 1281
• Turner v. County of Los Angeles

West Practice Categories

Bankruptcy Litigation, Class Actions, Complex Litigation, Federal Appellate Practice, Federal Claims Court, Federal Trial Practice, International Trade Litigation, Litigation & Appeals, Military & Veterans Appeals, Multidistrict Litigation, Patent Litigation, State Appellate Practice, State Trial Practice, Tax Litigation, US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, US Supreme Court

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of Notre Dame

Published Works

• Why Clients Change Lawyers in the Middle of a Case, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 2008
• The Unforseen Cost of Using Contract Workers, Orange County Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 2007
• Hall v. County of Los Angeles: The First California "Proper Comparator" Case, Orange County Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 2007
• Don't Fall Into an Employment Tax Liability Trap: A Survey of California Law, California Labor & Employment Law Review, 2007
• Not So Independent, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2007
• Using Statistics To Establish An "Inappropriate Comparator" Defense, Association of Business Trial Lawyers, 2006
• Beware Who You Don’t Hire, Employee Relations Law Journal, 2006
• Proposed Bill Could Make Misclassifying Workers Very Costly, 2006
• Inappropriate Comparator Defense Can Be Undoing Of Discrimination Suits, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2006

Address

3 Park Plaza
Suite 1100
Irvine, CA 92614-2592

Phones

1.949.553.7516 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.949.553.7539 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com