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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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Managing Partner - Southern California
Joanne Caruso is the Managing Partner for Howrey’s Southern California offices. She is also a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and has held numerous leadership positions at Howrey. Ms. Caruso joined Howrey in 1986. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, Ms. Caruso was named one of "California’s Top 75 Women Litigators" by the Los Angeles/San Francisco Daily Journal. In 2006, Ms. Caruso was named one of the top 100 attorneys in California by the Daily Journal. 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.
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, insurance recovery, antitrust, unfair competition and unfair business practices, franchise relationships, real estate partnership disputes and patent infringement matters. She has participated in numerous trials, mediations and arbitrations.
Representative Highlights
- AIMCO v. David L. Johnson, et al. Served as lead counsel representing one of the nation’s largest owner and operator of apartment communities in a successful breach of contract arbitration before a panel of three arbitrators from the American Arbitration Association in Denver, Colorado. After a three-day hearing and extensive post-hearing briefing, in which the respondent challenged significant provisions of the contract claiming that they were unenforceable and violated public policy, the panel found in favor of her client on all counts and awarded compensatory damages, ongoing injunctive relief and attorneys’ fees and costs of over $1 million.
- 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
- District of Columbia, 1987
- California, 1996
- Connecticut, 1986
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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