Attorney Profile
Aashish Y. Desai
Aashish Desai
Irvine
California (CA)
Practice Areas:
Class Action/Mass Torts (80%), Antitrust Litigation (10%), Employment & Labor (10%)
Class Action/Mass Torts
Antitrust Litigation
Employment & Labor
Law School:
University of Houston Law Center
Profile
Aashish Y. Desai handles class actions involving antitrust, consumer, and wage-and-hour law. He has been widely published, and regularly and passionately speaks at seminars, on the topics of class and collective actions. For two years he served as an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law, teaching legal writing (2004-2006). Mr. Desai obtained a landmark judgment for $2.1 million in attorney's fees on a $1.2 million settlement of an FLSA overtime class action. This ruling made headlines because it set a standard for how fees are calculated when defense counsel unnecessarily obstructs the litigation and refuses to settle until the bitter end. Parks v. Eastwood Insurance, Inc., 2005 WL 6007833 (C.D. Cal. 2005).
Selected To
Southern California Super Lawyers 2012
Southern California Super Lawyers 2011
Southern California Super Lawyers 2010
Southern California Super Lawyers 2009
Southern California Rising Stars 2007
Southern California Rising Stars 2006
Southern California Rising Stars 2005
About Aashish Desai
Admitted: 1997, California
Professional Webpage: www.mocalaw.com/Mower,_Carreon_%26_Desai,_LLP/Aashish_Desai....
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Revenge of the Wage Slave, Los Angeles Daily Journal, 2001
- Discovery Conundrum under FLSA, BNA Class Action Reporter, 2002
- Bazzle Confounds Class Arbitration, 2004
- Class Action Arbitration Agreements, FOURM Magazine, 2004
- Solution in Search of a Problem -- CAFA, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, 2005
- Striking the Answer is Easier Than You Think, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, 2006
- Def's Bear Heavy Burden Under CAFA, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, 2007
- Class Confirmation, Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, 2009
- Pickoff Moves, Los Angeles Lawyer Magazine, 2009
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Served as an Adjunct Professor at Chapman University School of Law from 2004-2006.
- In 2005, Mr. Desai obtained a landmark judgment for $2.1 million in attorney’s fees in a $1.2 million FLSA overtime class action – the ruling, which was eventually confirmed on appeal with the Ninth Circuit, made headlines because it set a standard for how fees are calculated when defense counsel unnecessarily obstructs the litigation and refuses to settle until the bitter end. Parks v. Eastwood Insurance, Inc., 2005 WL 6007833 (C.D. Cal. 2005).
Educational Background:
- The University of Texas at Austin, Economics, 1991
- Univeristy of Houston Law Center -- JD, 1996
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