Education
Columbia University School of Law,
J.D.,2004
University of California, Los Angeles,
B.A. Political Science and Psychology,
2000
Bar Admissions
California
New York
Court Admissions
Central District of California
Eastern District of California
Northern District of California
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
All state courts in California
All state courts in New York
Affiliations
Los Angeles County Bar Association
State Bar of California, Intellectual Property Section
State Bar of California, Labor and Employment Section
Wendy Thomas
- Contact information:
- Associate
- wthomas@weintraub.com
- T: 310.393.9500
Practice Areas
Wendy is a litigator in Weintraub Genshlea Chediak’s Los Angeles office. As a former federal prosecutor for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wendy has a broad range of litigation experience in areas of business, intellectual property and labor and employment litigation. She has tried more than fifteen trials to conclusion since her admission to practice law in 2004 and has also participated in commercial arbitrations. Wendy focuses her practice on litigation involving technology related companies, including cases involving copyright and trademark infringement, trade secrets, and unfair competition issues. Wendy’s general business litigation experience also includes cases involving shareholder disputes, corporate dissolutions, corporate accountings, breach of fiduciary duty claims, and labor and employment litigation. While at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wendy handled a variety of cases, including access device fraud, wire fraud, forgery, passport fraud, Visa fraud, Social Security fraud, and postal fraud, from grand jury through pretrial and trial phases including motions, sentencings, and appeals.
Representative Experience
- Served as lead counsel in over ten federal trials.
- Won arbitration at JAMS involving shareholder dispute of closely held corporation by successfully petitioning to restore shareholder rights of an individual shareholder and secured multi-million dollar settlement for shareholder.
- Successfully obtained 100% of the attorneys’ fees requested from an appeal of a $7.25 million judgment.
- Succeeded on appeal in federal court in defending the lower court’s assault conviction following appellant’s challenge to the jurisdictional authority of the United States to prosecute
- Succeeded on appeal in overturning a federal court order dismissing a case that involved constitutional issues of due process and invasion of privacy
- Won motion in federal court upholding the proprietary jurisdiction clause of the United States (United States v. Farrell, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 62720)
- Won motion in federal court denying defendant’s motion to dismiss indictment on the grounds that the immigration removal proceedings did not violate alien’s due process rights (United States v. Gutierrez Rodriguez, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 73748)
- Won motion in federal court that resulted in the Court convicting the defendant and upholding The Wilderness Act of 1964 (United States v. London, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 95400)
- Served as Attorney Advisor to the Department of Interior in prosecuting environmental and natural resource crimes including smuggling, Lacey Act Violations, and Endangered Species Act cases.
Before joining the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Wendy worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the white collar section at the Bronx District Attorney’s Office in New York, where she served as lead counsel in numerous bench and jury trials and presented over one hundred cases to the grand jury. During law school, Wendy summered at Proskauer Rose, LLP, handling white collar criminal defense, employment, entertainment, and general commercial litigation matters. She also summered at the New York Attorney General’s Office defending the State of New York in civil actions involving medical malpractice, wrongful death, insurance indemnification, and false imprisonment claims.
Wendy earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. While in law school she served as publications editor for the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law where she published an article entitled, “Through the Looking Glass: A Reflection on Current Mercury Regulation.” She is a member of the State Bar of California and the State Bar of New York.
