Lawrence E.Butler

Partner

Larry resolves his clients' litigation matters by understanding their businesses and applying real business data to their lawsuits.


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Clients seek help understanding and overcoming the challenges that California laws pose to businesses. Larry seeks practical solutions to disputes to get a client from A to Z with minimal legal spend.

Larry's practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, as well as securities matters and fraud claims. He has litigated individual and multiplaintiff suits, including class actions, on the local, statewide, and national levels.

Larry has also acted as liaison counsel for California Coordinated Proceedings. He has handled claims for breaches of fiduciary breaches, fraud, commercial contract disputes, claims for misappropriation of trade secrets, and nationwide and statewide class actions alleging violations of consumer statutes and other claims.

His real-world experience before becoming an attorney gave Larry insight into how a business functions, sets goals, and attains them. That experience allows him to apply a client-oriented perspective to their problems. Larry has also practiced law for more than 30 years in a variety of practice areas and venues, giving him experience with virtually every legal problem a client presents.

Larry understands his clients' businesses and applies real business data to potential lawsuits. For instance, he once handled a putative nationwide consumer class action for a client, and obtained a voluntary dismissal from a plaintiff's counsel. Larry did this by demonstrating the unlikelihood of a high verdict based on low sales figures on the product.

He knows the value of efficiency and of being accessible to his clients. On larger cases, Larry utilizes software to share documents and status reports with clients, so they have real-time access.

When all else fails to resolve a matter, Larry enjoys trying cases. He does not consider a trial to be the most efficient outcome for the client, but relishes the courtroom if a trial must take place. 

  • JD, Golden Gate University School of Law

    Highest honors
    Golden Gate Law Review, notes and comments editor

  • BS, Pennsylvania State University
    Business Administration
  • California
  • US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
  • US District Court, Central District of California
  • US District Court, Eastern District of California
  • US District Court, Northern District of California
  • US District Court, Southern District of California