Ms. Frasca is a Partner in our Irvine office and is a member of our Litigation Department. She has over thirty years of experience handling complex commercial and business litigation, including numerous bench and jury trials, pre-trial matters, injunction and other provisional remedy applications, civil contempt proceedings, arbitrations and mediations, in both state and federal courts. Ms. Frasca's practice includes handling a full range of appellate matters, including appeals and writ applications in state courts, the Seventh and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Idaho Supreme Court.

Ms. Frasca has achieved many significant results for clients in matters involving unfair competition and business torts, commercial real estate disputes, corporate and partnership control disputes and dissolution, employment related litigation, franchise matters, contract and commercial transaction disputes, claims involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, professional liability and fraudulent conveyances, and other commercial disputes, both at the trial court and the appellate court level.

EDUCATION

University of Notre Dame (J.D., summa cum laude, 1977)
- Joseph O'Meara Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement
- Notre Dame Law Review

University of Connecticut (B.A., magna cum laude, 1974)

- Phi Beta Kappa

 

ADMISSIONS/QUALIFICATIONS

State Bar of California, 1982
State Bar of Illinois, 1979
Federal Court of Appeals, Ninth and Seventh Circuits

U.S. District Court, Southern, Central and Northern Districts of California, Northern District of Illinois

 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Co-Chair, Orange County Bar Association Gender Equity Committee (1998-2001)
Member, Orange County Bar Association (Business Litigation Section)

Member, Association of Business Trial Lawyers

 

PHILANTHROPIC ENDEAVORS

Founding member of the Board of Directors of LEAP, an after-school program of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Tustin, CA

 

ARTICLES, SPEECHES AND SEMINARS

Speaker at various continuing education seminars, including Orange County Bar Association programs and National Institute of Trial Advocacy training seminars on a variety of topics, including expert depositions and elimination of gender bias.

Member of the Gender Equity/Orange County Bar Association subcommittee tasked by California's Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Access & Fairness to draft and produce two handbooks, Guidelines for Judicial Officers -- Avoiding the Appearance of Bias issued to every judicial officer in the State of California, and its counterpart for all lawyers in the State of California.

 

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS/CLIENTS

Achieving reversal from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of a $47 million judgment for unfair competition and other related torts obtained by sports agent Leigh Steinberg's firm against a rival sports agency, Athletes First, formed by his former partner.
Successful defense of over $40 million in claims for breach of an alleged partnership agreement, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty against a large Southern California homebuilder in multi-state litigation, including a six week jury trial, two state court appeals, a Ninth Circuit appeal, an Idaho state court action and appeal to the Idaho Supreme Court.
Representation of minority shareholders in home healthcare franchising companies in various state court litigation involving breach of fiduciary duty, breach of a shareholders' agreement, fraud and other tort claims, including successfully prosecuting charges for violation of court orders freezing millions of corporate funds, resulting in a civil contempt judgment that included a jail sentence.
Successful defense of Philippine National Bank in an action to recover on a $25 million irrevocable standby letter of credit, which was frozen by order of the Philippine Commission on Good Government as funds illegally diverted by former Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, in a five week bench trial and Ninth Circuit appeal.

Obtaining a quiet title judgment and affirmance from the appellate court for a subsidiary of Sohio and British Petroleum, against Unocal, Southern Pacific Railway Company and Mono Power Company resolving a title dispute involving geothermal rights in property located near the Salton Sea, valued at over $2 billion.

 

TEACHING/ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

Guest Lecturer at Whittier Law School on Appellate Law