Laurie Edelstein

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Laurie Edelstein is the head of Brune & Richard’s San Francisco office. She is an experienced trial and appellate attorney whose practice focuses on commercial litigation, white-collar defense, energy, and financial issues.

Ms. Edelstein works closely with her clients to develop the most effective strategies to achieve their legal and business objectives.  By combining strategic lawyering, skilled advocacy, and a detailed knowledge of the law and facts, Ms. Edelstein is able to obtain successful outcomes for her clients. 

As part of her commercial litigation practice, Ms. Edelstein has successfully represented a variety of institutional and individual clients in federal and state courts across the country in breach of contract, securities fraud, common law fraud, successor liability, and breach of fiduciary duty cases.

Among Ms. Edelstein’s clients is Pacific Gas and Electric Company, one of the nation’s largest electric and gas utilities.  Ms. Edelstein currently represents PG&E in a suit to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in electricity overcharges arising out of the 2000-2001 California energy crisis.  She also recently represented PG&E in a breach of contract suit with a cogeneration facility, a class action alleging violations of PG&E’s inspection and maintenance obligations, and a regulatory proceeding investigating PG&E’s billing and collection practices.

Ms. Edelstein’s current white-collar matters include representing brokers in government investigations and nationwide civil litigation concerning tax-related transactions.  In addition, she has experience with internal investigations, including a current investigation related to a large-scale bankruptcy.   She has also worked on several monitor and receivership cases.

Ms. Edelstein served for two years as a court-appointed special master in a complex race-based employment discrimination lawsuit in the Middle District of Alabama.

Prior to returning to Brune & Richard in 2005 to open its San Francisco office, Ms. Edelstein was an attorney in PG&E’s law department.  From 1993-1998, Ms. Edelstein was an associate at Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman, P.C., where she worked on a variety of constitutional, international, and civil liberties cases.

From 1992 to 1993, Ms. Edelstein was a law clerk to the Honorable Myron H. Thompson, Chief Judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.  She is a 1992 graduate of Yale Law School, where she received the Joseph L. Parker Prize in Legal History.  In 1989, Ms. Edelstein received an M.Phil. degree in Comparative Literature from Yale University, where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities.  She graduated from Stanford University in 1986 with an A.B. in Comparative Literature and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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