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ADR Services, Inc.

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On the Move

Boucher LLP

May 23, 2025


Alexander M. Gamez was promoted to partner of Boucher LLP in Woodland Hills. The promotion is effective May 22, 2025.

Gamez represents survivors of sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and employment discrimination in civil litigation, and prosecutes class and PAGA representative actions against employers who violate California and federal wage and hour laws. He has successfully resolved cases on behalf of the firm's clients through settlements and trial. In 2022, he obtained an over $24 million jury verdict in favor of two brothers against an adult cousin who sexually abused them during their childhood. Gamez graduated cum laude from California State University, Fullerton in 2012, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. Thereafter, in 2015, he earned his Juris Doctor degree from Southwestern Law School. During law school, he clerked for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office, served as a student coordinator for the National Lawyers Guild Court Watch Program, and was a member of the Public Interest Law Committee. He also obtained numerous awards and distinctions during law school for his public interest and pro bono efforts.


Details

Boucher LLP has 11 attorneys in 2 offices including Woodland Hills, San Francisco. Among the law firm’s key practice areas are Childhood sexual abuse, class actions, mass actions, workers' rights/employment, and catastrophic personal injury. The firm’s website is www.boucher.la

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Daily Appellate Report

Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure

Amended Opinion: Roe v. Critchfield

Because student's facial challenge to Idaho's anti-transgender school bathroom bill was deemed unlikely to succeed on the merits, preliminary injunction was properly denied.


Criminal Law and Procedure

U.S. v. Greene

Plain error found where elements of offense used as pseudo-count to calculate offense level for sentencing purposes were not satisfied by facts stipulated by the defendant in plea agreement.


Criminal Law and Procedure

U.S. v. Watson

Defendant's parole agreement requiring that he cooperate with probation officer did not violate his Fifth Amendment rights in subsequent interrogation by police for a separate offense.


Antitrust

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