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Joanne E. Caruso
550 South Hope St.
Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90071
+1 213.892.1853
+1 213.892.2300 (Fax)
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Joanne Caruso is a partner in Howrey's Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm’s six-person Executive Committee. In 2006, Ms. Caruso was named one of the top 100 attorneys in California by the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal and from 2005 - 2010 she has been listed as one of "California’s Top 75 Women Litigators" by the same publication. Ms. Caruso has been ranked by Chambers USA and has been recognized as one of Southern California’s “Super Lawyers” in the area of Business Litigation. She has recently been named by Calfiornia Diversity magazine as one of 2010's "Most Powerful and Influential Women in California."
Ms. Caruso represents Fortune 500 clients in all stages of federal and state court litigation throughout the United States. Her extensive commercial litigation experience includes complex commercial contracts, antitrust, unfair competition and unfair business practices, patent infringement matters, franchise relationships, real estate partnership disputes and insurance recovery. She has participated in numerous trials, mediations and arbitrations.
Ms. Caruso serves on the California Commission on Access to Justice. The 24 -member commission is made up of lawyers and judges as well as academic, business, labor and community leaders from across the State and was established to explore ways to improve access to civil justice for Californians living on low and moderate incomes.
Representative Highlights
- AIMCO v. David L. Johnson, et al. Lead counsel representing one of the nation’s largest owner and operators of apartment communities in an arbitration before a panel of three arbitrators from the American Arbitration Association in Denver, Colorado. After a multi-day hearing and extensive post-hearing briefing, the panel found in favor of her client on all counts and awarded compensatory damages, ongoing injunctive relief and attorneys’ fees and costs.
- Caterpillar Inc., et al. v. California Air Resources Board. Represented Caterpillar in a suit involving breach of settlement agreements and purported environmental and health impacts of mobile source emissions. Won an unprecedented trial verdict in which the court invalidated a regulation and declared that the regulation breached and constitutionally impaired settlement agreements, and that the regulation amounted to a forced recall in violation of law.
- International Paper/Masonite. Served as trial counsel representing International Paper and Masonite Corporation in a case arising out of the refusal of insurance carriers to provide indemnification for damages paid to settle a nationwide product liability class action. Following a 13-week trial, the jury awarded International Paper $383 million from 22 insurance carriers. The verdict was the second-largest by a California jury in 2003.
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Admissions
- California, 1996
- Connecticut, 1986
- District of Columbia, 1987
Courts & Adjudicative Bodies
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
- United States District Court for the Central District of California
- United States District Court for the Northern District of California
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
- United States District Court for the Southern District of California
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- United States District Court for the District of Maryland
- United States District Court for the District of Columbia
- United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois
Education
- Boston College Law School (JD, 1986), cum laude
- Boston College (BA, 1982), magna cum laude
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