Joseph J. Poppen
Joseph J. Poppen
Joseph J. Poppen
Biography
Joseph J. Poppen is a member of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Group and the Business & Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Joseph represents clients in a wide array of cases in state and federal courts in all major stages of litigation. He has been a California State Bar Certified Appellate Specialist since 2017, and clients often seek him out to litigate issues of California law and procedure.
Joseph has presented over 25 arguments before the state and federal appellate courts, including before the First, Second, Third and Sixth Districts of the California Court of Appeal and before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth and Ninth Circuits. In addition to briefing over 60 appeals and writ proceedings in those courts, he guides clients in preserving the trial court record, attacking or defending trial court judgments through post-trial motions, staying enforcement of judgments, and perfecting appeals.
Joseph has equally extensive experience litigating in the state and federal trial courts. He has successfully represented clients in jury trials and bench trials in the San Francisco, Los Angeles and Alameda County Superior Courts. His extensive law and motion skill and experience includes all manner of complex dispositive motions, from pleadings motions through summary judgment and motions at trial. He has taken or defended well over 100 depositions, propounded and responded to all forms of written discovery, and enforces his clients’ discovery rights by motion when necessary.
During law school, Joseph served as an extern with the Civil Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California. As an undergrad, he studied philosophy and focused on contemporary metaphysics and ethical theory.
Recruiting Committee
Certified Appellate Specialist (2017-Present) - California State Bar
Northern California "Rising Star" (2011-2017) - Super Lawyers Magazine
Admissions
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California, 2005
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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2005
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 2017
U.S. District Court – Northern District of California, 2005
U.S. District Court – Eastern District of California, 2011
U.S. District Court – Central District of California, 2017
United States Supreme Court, 2025
Education
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings), J.D., 2005
University of California-Berkeley, B.A., 2001
Related Capabilities
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Business & Commercial Disputes
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Financial Services
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Catastrophic Accidents
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Consumer Fraud
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Consumer Products
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Food, Ag & Nutrition
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Insurance (Class Actions)
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Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices (Class Actions)
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Pharmaceutical & Medical Devices (Mass Torts)
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Financial Institutions
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Litigation & Dispute Resolution
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Class Actions
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Finance
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Appellate
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Mass Torts & Product Liability
Experience
Representative Appellate Opinions
- Kramer v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2024 WL 810444 (9th Cir. 2024)
- Flextronics Int'l USA, Inc. v. Panasonic Holdings Corp., 2023 WL 4677017 (9th Cir. 2023)
- Gauna v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2023 WL 8251390 (Cal. Ct. App. 2023)
- Bond v. JPMorgan Chase, N.A., 2023 WL 3167612 (Cal. Ct. App. 2023)
- Nunn v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 64 Cal. App. 5th 346 ( Ct. App. 2021)
- Orea v. Quality Loan Serv. Corp., 859 F. App'x 799 (9th Cir. 2021)
- Velez v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2019 WL 4926285 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Merritt v. Countrywide Fin. Corp., WL 4445049 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Baumwohl v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, Nat'l Ass'n, 2019 WL 2281531 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Sevilla v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2019 WL 1872905 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Tucker v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2019 WL 1417436 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Hewlett v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2019 WL 1417285 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Root v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Tr. Co., 2019 WL 1109740 (Cal. Ct. App. 2019)
- Bronson v. EMC Mortg. Corp., 2018 WL 3434300 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018)
- Fagundes v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2018 WL 3215147 (Cal. Ct. App. 2018)
- Wheatley v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 860 F.3d 629 (8th Cir. 2017)
- Halajian v. JPMorgan Chase Bank., 688 Fed.Appx. 500 (9th Cir. 2017)
- Dahnken v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, 705 Fed.Appx. 508 (9th Cir. 2017)
- White v. JPMorgan Chase & Co. 702 Fed.Appx. 642 (9th Cir. 2017)
- Ratliff v. EMC Mortgage, LLC, 2017 WL 1075432 (Cal. Ct. App. 2017)
- Mendoza v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 6 Cal.App.5th 802 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Brown v. Deutsche Bank Nat'l Trust Co., 247 Cal.App.4th 275 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- LSREF2 Clover Prop. 4, LLC v. Festival Retail Fund 1, LP, 3 Cal.App.5th 1067 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Nguyen v. J.P. Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 669 Fed.Appx. 347 (9th Cir. 2016)
- Rosenblum v. Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., 2016 WL 5404370 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Malek v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2016 WL 3356233 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Diller v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2016 WL 3640480 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Agmata-Rivac v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2016 WL 280015 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Hewlett v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2016 WL 6311107 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Smith v. EMC Mortgage LLC, 2016 WL 4001271 (Cal. Ct. App. 2016)
- Lam v. JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A., 605 F. App'x 600 (9th Cir. 2015)
- Patinio v. EMC Mortgage, LLC 2015 WL 2156649 (Cal. Ct. App. 2015)
- McIntosh v. Mathison, 2011 WL 1535401 (Cal. Ct. App. 2011)
- Anderson v. 11th & Folsom Community and Preservation Society, 2010 WL 891694 (Cal. Ct. App. 2010)
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