CONTRACT PARTNER
Ms. Wilcox joined Hershorin & Henry LLP in 2007 and brought to the firm 30 years of extensive experience in civil litigation with a strong emphasis
in real estate based claims and financial disputes. Since joining the firm, Ms. Wilcox has continued her litigation, trial and appellate practice.
She is the partner responsible for prosecuting more than $80 million in stated-income loan losses suffered by a failed thrift on behalf of the FDIC.
At Wilcox & Peirano LLP, Ms. Wilcox's role as managing partner involved a civil litigation and related appellate practice with an emphasis on real
estate, commercial lease disputes, consumer legal remedy claims, trust and estates litigation, asset disposition and estate planning. Ms.
Wilcox's client prevailed in the published appellate decision of Patricia Lee v. Southern California University of
Professional Studies (March 16, 2007) 148 Cal.App.4th 782 that involved enforcement of an arbitration clause in a class action setting. Ms. Wilcox
is now counsel for the certified class.
Commencing in 1999, as a partner in McQueen & Ashman, LLP, Ms. Wilcox successfully litigated a wide range of cases involving general business disputes.
She defended eminent domain claims on behalf of ConocoPhillips and other business condemnees. Resolution of those actions often required the
negotiation and drafting of complex pre- and post- taking contracts and licenses to deal with environmental issues. Her practice also encompassed
business tort claims involving unfair competition and copyright infringement, commercial secured loan foreclosures and enforcement of commercial
mechanic's liens. Ms. Wilcox drafted the successful briefs that led to the decision of Howard S. Wright Constr. Co v.
Sup. Ct. (2003) 106 Cal.App.4th 314 that upheld the contractor's right to enforce its mechanic's lien despite the property owner's notice of non-responsibility.
As counsel to Corbett, Steelman & Spector, her practice involved litigation and risk management on behalf of employers dealing with employment
based claims involving ERISA, severance plans, wrongful termination and sexual harassment. Other areas of her practice included resolution of
partnership disputes, appellate work, commercial loan recovery and work-out negotiations, creditor bankruptcy rights involving real property and
construction disputes arising from public and private works of improvement.
During the Bank & Thrift Crisis that occurred in the early 90's, Ms. Wilcox served as Senior Attorney with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
There, she litigated claims in federal and state courts that related to major receivership assets of failed banks and thrifts. That litigation
frequently required the restructuring of complex loans secured by real and personal properties and often involved procuring rents receivers,
writs of attachment and writs of possession against debtors.
Ms. Wilcox obtained her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School in 1980. That same year she won the First Annual Trial Advocacy Competition
held at Loyola Law School. Ms. Wilcox was admitted to the California Bar in May 1981. Ms. Wilcox has lectured before the OC Building Owners Management
Association and various Southern California Escrow Associations. While attending law school, Ms. Wilcox co-authored, illustrated and published
The Poorman's Guide to Gourmet Dining on the Westside of Town (an L.A. Times
Bestseller) and The Poorman's Guide to Gourmet Dining in Pasadena.
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