John S. Poulos is a litigation attorney who brings over two decades of experience to his current role as partner with Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP in Sacramento. In this role, John S. Poulos focuses on commercial litigation. The Sacramento-based law firm provides expert legal counsel in a wide range of practice areas, including commercial lending.
Lewis Brisbois' national Commercial Lending Practice is a legal service that helps both lenders (banks, credit unions, mezzanine loan funds, and non-conventional bank lenders) and borrowers (businesses of all sizes) with various types of commercial business loans. The firm provides guidance throughout the lending process, from creating loan agreements to handling loan modifications if needed. The practice offers a wide range of services, including conducting thorough investigations (due diligence) to assess risk, and preparing legal documents for loans. It’s also adept at dealing with cross-border financing, managing loan restructurings and finding solutions when borrowers face financial difficulties, and handling swaps, which are financial arrangements to manage risk. Lewis Brisbois’ attorneys are skilled in structuring and handling commercial loans, regardless of their size. These loans often involve collateral, such as business assets, real estate, and intellectual property.
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Based in Sacramento, California, John S. Poulos joined Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith, LLP, in 2013 and now serves the firm as a partner focused on commercial litigation. He previously spent 15 years with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, also in Sacramento. As an attorney, John S. Poulos primarily focuses on commercial litigation.
The Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith business and commercial litigation practice emphasizes several areas of business law, such as breach of merger and acquisition agreements. Common types of breaches range from fraud to misappropriation of funds. Litigation services in areas of commercial contracts and financing focus on enforcing contracts for delivery of goods, financing agreements, and other business operations. In addition to contracts, litigation services can be used to enforce personal guaranties, promissory notes, security agreements, and more. Additional areas of complex business and commercial litigation include corporate litigation, real estate litigation, and licensing and distribution litigation. To learn more, including how the practice collaborates with related groups at the firm, such as the bankruptcy practice, please visit the firm online at lewisbrisbois.com. A commercial lawyer based in Sacramento, California, John S. Poulos previously served as a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman. Currently the managing partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP’s Sacramento office, John S. Poulos was recently featured in the Sacramento Business Journal for the firm’s recent hiring of five lawyers from Locke Lord LLP. Lewis Brisbois’ new hires include Scott Bartel, John Yung, and Eric Stiff. The three bring tremendous international commercial law experience and a solid client base from various international locations. Bartel, Yung, and Stiff started working together in the 1980s at the firm Bartel Eng Linn and Schroder. They decided to grow their reach beyond California so Bartel sought clients in Europe, Yung in China, and Stiff in Canada. Once they established an international client base, they needed an office in California to grow their practice. Lewis Brisbois was a good fit. While Lewis Brisbois already had a strong commercial law litigation department, it was looking to expand its transactional expertise. The new hires, according to Poulos, will strengthen Lewis Brisbois’ commercial law practice, grow its transactional expertise, and expand its international reach. With experience in multiple areas of complex business litigation in Sacramento, California, John S. Poulos serves as an equity partner within the litigation group in the offices of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. His previous experience includes serving as a partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Sacramento-based John S. Poulos has handled cases involving class actions, the California Endangered Species Act, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or Superfund, and the California False Claims Act. The California False Claims Act, administered through the state’s Office of the Attorney General, aims to recover monies fraudulently obtained from the state through submission of false documentation. The attorney general retains the power to initiate a civil case for treble damages, as well as civil penalties, against a person or corporation that intentionally misleads the state through false claims in statements or documents in order to achieve financial gain. California’s False Claims Act, like those of New York and other states, is modeled on the original federal statute signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, and as amended in 1943 and subsequently. The False Claims Act focuses on alleged acts of fraud committed against the nation’s or a state’s taxpayers, including fraud involving banks, contractors, and Medicaid or Medicare. A former partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLC, in Sacramento, California, John S. Poulos has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer on three separate occasions. John S. Poulos has since transitioned to a position as a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP, also in Sacramento.
A national firm with more than 1,100 attorneys across 40 offices, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP serves clients in a diverse array of legal specialties, from commercial litigation and corporate law to bankruptcy and immigration. The firm leverages its national presence to provide comprehensive services that meet the unique legal needs of institutional and corporate clients. Committed to diversity, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith strives to attract and retain top attorneys who reflect the diversity of the clients they serve. The firm has twice as many women and minority partners as the national average and has garnered numerous awards for its commitment to diversity, including a number one diversity ranking by California Magazine. Further, Law360 ranked the firm fourth on its list of Top 10 “BigLaw” Firms for Female Attorneys and third on its list of the Top 100 Firms for Minority Lawyers. An attorney in Sacramento, John S. Poulos serves as partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. He previously was a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, also located in Sacramento. John S. Poulos holds a juris doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, which maintains a focus on experiential education. Dedicated to helping law students leave school ready to practice law, Berkeley Law emphasizes experiential learning, beginning in the first semester. The school offers students a variety of practical opportunities, including externships and legal assistance projects led by students. Students also benefit from a variety of legal clinics led by full-time faculty. For example, the school’s Death Penalty Clinic provides students with training in representing death-row inmates, and the International Human Rights Law Clinic engages students in finding ways to protect human rights. Students collaborate to address human rights issues in California and around the globe. Berkeley Law students also gain valuable experience during their second and third years through the Field Placement Program. Through this program, students can serve as judicial externs or work in the fields of civil or criminal law for a variety of legal offices, nonprofit organizations, or government agencies. To learn more about experiential learning opportunities at Berkeley Law, visit www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential. An attorney in Sacramento, California, with more than two decades of experience, John S. Poulos is a partner at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard and Smith LLP. Prior to moving to Sacramento, John S. Poulos earned a juris doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, (Berkeley Law) which will host the 10th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference from June 1-2, 2017. The Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC) will bring together scholars and practitioners in the field of privacy law to explore the latest issues within this specialty. Attendees also will include scholars with expertise in privacy as it pertains to other disciplines, from political science and economics to philosophy and computer science. Featuring multiple paper workshops, PLSC will give attendees the opportunity to discuss works in progress by a diverse group of scholars. Prior to the event, attendees should spend a day and a half to two days reading in preparation for workshop discussions. PLSC is a collaborative effort of Berkeley Law and the George Washington University School of Law in Washington, DC. Last year’s event gathered 260 participants at George Washington University School of Law. Based in Sacramento, California, attorney John S. Poulos brings 20 years of litigation experience to his role as a partner with the law firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. An experienced trial lawyer, John S. Poulos, who works from the firm's Sacramento office, has been named to the list of Best Lawyers in America (2013) in the area of construction law. Best Lawyers is a highly-respected, legal peer review publication that is distributed worldwide in nearly 70 countries. Construction attorneys provide legal services to entities (individual and corporate) involved in the construction industry, serving clients that include owners, contractors, material suppliers, engineers, banks, and insurance companies among others. Considered a specialist, a construction lawyer actually functions as a generalist who needs to be prepared for almost any type of legal situation affecting those in the industry, ranging from contract, banking, and insurance law, to criminal, international, and bankruptcy law, in addition to litigation. The complexity of construction projects is often mirrored in the complexity of construction disputes, which often involve multiple parties and large sums of money. A successful construction attorney will also be familiar with dispute resolution alternatives. Specializing in commercial litigation, John S. Poulos serves as vice-chair of the banking & finance practice group as well as the commercial litigation practice in the Sacramento, California, law office of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. Recognized for his legal acumen, John S. Poulos serves as an equity partner at Lewis Brisbois, which offers legal services in a variety of specialized areas, including eDiscovery. Discovery is a legal process involving the exchange of information between the parties involved in a legal matter, information that in the past consisted primarily of paper documents. As these documents have for the most part been replaced with content created and stored on computers, the information, also known as electronically stored information (ESI), started to be exchanged in electronic formats. Complex and demanding, electronic discovery, or eDiscovery, begins when the legal duty to preserve relevant ESI is triggered. The types of ESI exchanged can range from basic emails and Word documents to proprietary database files and such sharing often requires collaboration between a company’s legal and technical teams. A legal professional based in Sacramento, California, John S. Poulos is a managing partner in the litigation practice group of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP. During his time with the Sacramento firm, John S. Poulos has been selected three times as one of Northern California's Super Lawyers. To be recognized as a Super Lawyer, an attorney first must be nominated by peers or identified by the Super Lawyers research department. Every year, the Super Lawyers selection committee encourages lawyers in regions throughout the US to nominate high-performing attorneys they have worked with. After receiving nominations, the Super Lawyers research team evaluates the candidates, assessing their performance in areas such as client representation, verdicts, settlements, pro bono work, and special certifications. Next is the peer evaluation step, in which panelists rank the highest-scoring attorneys from the research step. Finally, the lawyers with the highest totals in each category are selected as Super Lawyers. The results are published annually in the state and regional editions of Super Lawyers Magazine. |
AuthorJohn Poulos, a Managing Partner with Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, has realized a number of successes over the course of his academic and professional careers. Archives
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