William M. (Mike) Hensley is of counsel in the Santa Ana office of Frost Brown Todd LLP, and a member of the Firm’s Appellate/Business and Commercial Litigation/Real Estate practice groups. He has extensive experience in bench and jury trials, binding arbitrations, judicial references, mediations, and appellate work in state and federal courts throughout California. Mr. Hensley also has appeared pro hac vice for clients in federal courts located in Arizona, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Wyoming, Texas, and Florida.
Mr. Hensley received his B.A. in speech communication from the University of Southern California in 1976, graduating with summa cum laude honors. He then received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers-Camden School of Law in 1979, graduating with honors. Mr. Hensley was a member of the Rutgers-Camden Law Journal throughout his law school years and externed for the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals during his last year of law school.
Mr. Hensley has been licensed continuously in California since December 1979, and is a member of the bars of all federal district courts in California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. Previously, when practicing in Los Angeles County, Mr. Hensley was affiliated with Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi and Irell & Manella. He then changed venues to Orange County, practicing at Menke, Fahrney & Carroll and then for over 14 years with Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh (now, Jackson Tidus). Mr. Hensley was a shareholder at Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh, serving as its Litigation Department head for over two years while at that law firm.
Mr. Hensley’s litigation experience is broad in nature, encompassing such diverse practice areas as: real estate issues of almost any nature; construction defect litigation (both plaintiff and defense, representing developers, contractors, managers, subcontractors, and design professionals); federal and state securities class action/derivative defense; partnership/corporate governance issues; UCC/commercial paper/letter of credit issues; intellectual property/trade secret/unfair competition issues; wrongful termination/harassment trials; wage/hour class action defense; contract formation and interpretation issues; bankruptcy adversary proceedings; health care disputes; telecommunications issues; and debtor/creditor financing issues involving both secured and unsecured interests. He has also prosecuted some plaintiff consumer class actions in both state and federal courts in California.
Mr. Hensley has been involved in over 20 published decisions, as well as published numerous articles in law journals, practice treatises, and various trade journals.
Mr. Hensley has lived in Laguna Niguel for the past 20 years, enjoying spare time with his wife Anne and his Labradoodle, Lucy.
Mr. Hensley can be contacted at:
Frost Brown Todd LLP
1 MacArthur Place
Suite 200
Santa Ana, California 92707
Telephone: 714.852.6800
Facsimile: 714.852.6899
email: [email protected]
Marc Alexander has over 35 years of experience in bench and jury trials, binding arbitrations, judicial references, mediations, and appellate work in state and federal courts in California. As of 2023, he is a full-time neutral affiliated with Alternative Resolution Centers (ARC), a California dispute resolution provider.
Mr. Alexander received his B.A. with honors from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He received an M.A. and a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins, and he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Alexander received his Juris Doctor degree from UCLA in 1981, and he has been licensed to practice law continuously in California since 1981. Upon graduating from law school, he clerked on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit with the Hon. Warren J. Ferguson.
After clerking for the federal court, Mr. Alexander practiced in California as a litigator with Irell and Manella in its Century City and Orange County offices. In 1986, he joined the litigation department at McKittrick, Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh in Orange County, California. Mr. Alexander was a shareholder in the litigation department at McKittrick, Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh; Jackson, DeMarco & Peckenpaugh; Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus & Peckenpaugh; and, Jackson, DeMarco, Tidus, Petersen & Peckenpaugh, until 2008. In 2008, Mr. Alexander joined AlvaradoSmith APC as a shareholder, continuing as of counsel through 2022.
Mr. Alexander has broad experience in business and real estate litigation. His experience encompasses landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, purchase and sale disputes, title disputes, homeowner association disputes; unfair competition disputes, including non-compete and non-solicitation disputes; partnership and corporate disputes; employment disputes; ADA cases; personal injury; and, intellectual property disputes.
Mr. Alexander is a mediator on the panel for the United States District Court, Central District of California, and a mediator on the panel for the Superior Court of the County of Orange, California.
Over the years, Mr. Alexander has written a number of articles and book reviews on legal subjects. A sampling of his articles includes: Attorney Fees: A Potential Malpractice Minefield, Orange County Lawyer, October 2022; The United States and the California Supreme Courts are not on the same page, Daily Journal, June 10, 2022; Review, Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America, by W. Caleb McDaniel, California Litigation, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2020; Notes and Bolts of Videoconference Dispute Resolution in the Time of Covid-19, California Litigation, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2020; 4th District Court of Appeal Justice William Bedsworth on civility, Daily Journal, June 18, 2019; Review, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights, by Adam Winkler, California Litigation, Vol. 32, No. 1, 2019; Review, Louis Brandeis, An American Prophet, by Jeffrey Rosen, California Litigation, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2018; Can Private Attorney General Actions Be Forced Into Litigation?, California Litigation, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2015; Summary Contempt and Due Process: England, 1631, California, 1888," California Litigation, Vol. 27, No. 3 2014; When The American Rule Doesn't Apply: Attorney's Fees As Damages In Litigation, California Litigation, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2008 (co-authored with William M. Hensley), Peril of Private Justice: Suspension of Proceedings, Orange County Lawyer, September 2004, Trespass to Chattel and Unsolicited Bulk Email, Orange County Lawyer, September 2003, Protecting Views With Municipal Ordinances, California Land Use, April, 2001, A Newsperson's Shield Law: A Primer, Civil Litigation Reporter, August, 1995, Despicable Conduct, Or How Punitives Have Been Damaged, Orange County Lawyer, April, 1988, Software Patents and The On-Sale Bar, The Computer Lawyer, January, 1988, When Can An Attorney Contact The Employee Of A Party Represented By Counsel? -- Bright Line And Multi-Factor Approaches, Civil Litigation Reporter, December, 1987, When Is A Software Program "Made For Hire?", The Computer Lawyer, September, 1986, Discretionary Power To Impound And Destroy Infringing Articles: An Historical Perspective, Journal Of The Copyright Society Of The USA (1980).
Mr. Alexander also publishes the blog California Mediation and Arbitration, about the law of mediation and arbitration in California state courts and the Ninth Circuit.
Mr. Alexander is married and has three grown children. He also has a Labradoodle named Nellie.
Mr. Alexander is available for mediation and arbitration services, and can be contacted at:
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 714.625.7782