PARTNERS

KATE CLAIR FREELAND has been practicing law in California since she graduated from Yale Law School in 1970. Her work has focused on providing a full range of business and transactional services, with an emphasis in complex estate planning for business owners and other high net worth individuals. Her work includes financial and tax analysis of business transactions and the integration of estate planning goals of principals. freeland@freelandlaw.com

STEVEN A. COOPER received his law degree from Columbia University in 1973, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and his undergraduate degree in accounting from the University of Virginia. He focuses on complex finance and equipment leasing transactions involving vessels, railroad rolling stock, transportation equipment and capital assets. He also has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions and the structuring and financing of startup and emerging companies. cooper@freelandlaw.com

STEWART H. FOREMAN graduated from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1974. He is an experienced trial lawyer specializing in litigating, arbitrating and mediating complex business cases and was the former Chief of Complex Litigation for the City of San Francisco. Stewart's cases also involve energy, utility and natural resources matters. He is counsel for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's hydroelectric generation group in handling matters before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and works with this client’s natural gas pipeline group. He is also experienced in negotiating with governmental natural resource agencies and environmental groups and is on the mediation panels for the United States District Court, Northern District of California, and the California Court of Appeals, First Appellate District. foreman@freelandlaw.com

MARK I. SCHICKMAN received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctorate degrees from Columbia University, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and the recipient of Columbia’s Whitney North Seymour Medal for Distinguished Trial Advocacy. He has held numerous elected bar positions, including service as President of the Bar Association of San Francisco, and Governor of the State Bar of California. He is the immediate past chair of California’s Judicial Nominees Evaluation Commission. For the past 30 years, he has concentrated on employment and labor law, litigating every type of employment matter and providing advice in avoiding liability for discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, union related charges and all other aspects of the employment relationship. He is a member of the American Arbitration Association’s select panel of employment arbitrators. schickman@freelandlaw.com

DANIEL T. BERNHARD received his J.D. from Georgetown University in 1982, after receiving a Masters Degree from Stanford in 1979. Dan is an experienced litigator specializing in trials and mediations. He was a Deputy City Attorney for the City of San Francisco and has successfully represented Fortune 500 companies, closely held corporations, municipal entities, partnerships and individuals in a variety of complex business cases. Dan's cases commonly involve investment disputes, business frauds and torts, as well as unfair competition and unfair advertising claims, intellectual property, and regulatory claims under state and federal law. bernhard@freelandlaw.com

ASSOCIATES

CATHLEEN S. YONAHARA received her law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law in 1999. She represents and advises clients in all areas of labor and employment law, including Title VII, FMLA, ADA, ADEA, FEHA, CFRA, and the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act. Cathleen has represented employers in court and before government agencies, including the EEOC, the DFEH, and Cal-OSHA. Her cases commonly involve claims of employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, and breach of contract. Cathleen’s practice includes counseling clients on employee hiring, discipline and termination as well as employment agreements, employee handbook policies, wage and hour laws, leaves of absence, and providing reasonable accommodation. yonahara@freelandlaw.com

FRANK F. HUANG received his law degree from Boston University School of Law in 1997 and received his undergraduate degree from Brown University in 1994. He has represented public companies, private companies and investors in various corporate transactions including mergers and acquisitions, public and private offerings and venture financing. He also has experience advising clients on general corporate matters, federal and state securities law compliance and off-shore business transactions and investment. huang@freelandlaw.com

PETER L. DMYTRYK graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1984, after receiving his bachelor's degree in accounting with highest honors from the University of Delaware in 1979. He serves as counsel to high net worth individuals and families, business owners and related entities, including nonprofit organizations, in the areas of estate planning, trust and estate administration, taxation, and business planning and transactions. His practice particularly focuses on complex estate, tax and business planning in order to achieve clients' unique and diverse objectives in an integrated and comprehensive manner. dmytryk@freelandlaw.com