Kemnitzer, Anderson, Barron & Ogilvie, LLP

Mark F Anderson is a partner with KABO. He obtained his law degree from the University of Nebraska after serving on the Law Review. He was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1970. He worked for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1969 to 1976.

Mark has been representing consumers since 1983. He has represented thousands of consumers in lemon law and auto fraud cases. He has represented consumers in many class actions. In Jensen v BMW of North America (1995) 36 Cal. App. 4th 112, Mark obtained a ruling that consumers who buy used cars with the balance of the new car warranty are entitled to the protection of the California lemon law. He has obtained favorable settlements in a series of Fair Credit Reporting Act cases. He has been talked about Fair Credit and Fair Debt Collection Act cases on San Francisco's KGO Talk Radio on several occasions.

Carol McLean Brewer is a partner at KABO. She obtained a B.S.B.A. (with Honors) as well as her Law Degree from the University of Florida in Gainesville. Prior to joining KABO in 2001, she practiced law in West Palm Beach, Florida, for more than 20 years, concentrating in commercial litigation and consumer class actions. She served on the Florida Bar Board of Governors and as President of the Palm Beach County Bar Association.

While in Florida she successfully represented a nationwide consumer class which claimed a cruise line had used deceptive trade practices in Renaissance Cruises v. Glassman (1999) 738 So.2d 436. More recently she represented a consumer class which charged that a bank had used unlawful practices in connection with the repossession and sale of their vehicles, in Fireside Bank v. Superior Court (2005) 133 Cal.App.4th 742. Carol continues to specialize in consumer class actions and other consumer fraud and credit reporting cases. She is admitted to practice in Florida and California.

Andrew J Ogilvie is a Partner at KABO. An honors graduate of Harvard and Wisconsin Law, he is admitted to practice in California and Massachusetts. He specializes in consumer class actions, unfair competition, credit reporting and debt collection practices cases. He has had numerous successes in the appellate courts in consumers cases. In Bank of America v. Lallana (1998) 19 Cal.4th 203, the California Supreme Court held that Bank of America violated the Automobile Sales Finance Act by failing to give proper notice of its intent to sell the vehicles it had repossessed through a public sale.

The consumers were all held not liable to the Bank for its deficiency claims. In Damian v. Tamondong (1998) 65 Cal.App.4th 1115, he secured a ruling that the bank cannot avoid paying the attorney fees incurred by a customer it sued on an auto finance contract by dismissing its unmeritorious lawsuit on the eve of trial.

More recently, he was one of the attorneys who persuaded the California Supreme Court that the 'catalyst theory' should be maintained in California and that plaintiffs whose lawsuits cause a defendant to correct its misconduct are entitled to be compensated for their attorney fees and costs. Graham v. DaimlerChrysler Corp. (2004) 34 Cal.4th 553.