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Laura C. Hess 
Irvine, California
Partner
phone 949-467-9164
fax 949-261-8800
email Email Me

Laura C. Hess is a partner with Kring & Chung, LLP. Hess specializes in representing businesses in litigation matters. Hess is an expert at defending companies against complaints about their products and services. The types of cases she handles involve quality control issues, warranty disputes, consumer claims, and claims that salespeople committed fraud. Hess is also an expert at resolving contract disputes with suppliers, vendors, customers, and distributors. Hess helps companies collect on accounts receivable. She also defends management against employee claims that they were wrongfully terminated, retaliated against, denied meal and rest breaks, misclassified as exempt, and owed wages.

Hess provides practical legal information for companies that do business in California on her blog, "Hess on Business Law," at www.hessbizlaw.com.

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Areas of Practice:
Business
Employment
Real Estate
Bar Admissions:
California, 1998
Education:
Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law, Portland, Oregon
J.D.
Honors: Nationals in Mock Trial Competition


Pepperdine University
B.A.
Honors: Magna Cum Laude


Published Works:
"When Can a Plaintiff Recover Future Replacement Cost Damages in a Breach of Warranty Case?", Orange County Lawyer Magazine, June, 2009


"The Biggest Mistakes Made By Trial Lawyers - Are You Making Them?", Orange County Lawyer Magazine, April, 2003


Classes/Seminars Taught:
"Pre and Post Sale Duty to Warn: A Primer on a Manufacturer's Duty to Design Effective Warnings", presented to the Orange County Bar Association Products Liability Section, November 20, 2009


"Legal Issues for Small Businesses", presented to SCORE Counselors to Small Businesses, Orange County Chapter, November 10, 2009


Honors and Awards:
Who's Who Among Distinguished Professionals, 2010


Professional Associations and Memberships:
Orange County Women Lawyers Association
Board of Directors


Orange County Bar Association, Business Litigation Section
Member


Association of Business Trial Lawyers, Orange County Chapter
Member


National Association of Women Business Owners, Orange County Chapter
Member


Pro Bono Activities:
Orangewood Children's Home

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