Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Jahan Sagafi
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 22 years of experience
(415) 638-8800
Outten & Golden LLP
One California Street, 12th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111
Employment
Harvard Law School
JAHAN C. SAGAFI is the partner-in-charge of the firm’s San Francisco office, where he represents workers in employment class actions challenging discrimination, wage and hour abuses, Fair Credit Reporting Act violations, and other types of exploitation. He has won a jury trial for a nationwide class of approximately 1,000 technical support workers, an en banc appeal in the Ninth Circuit, and many settlements to recover backpay for overtime compensation, meal and rest breaks, vacation benefits, discriminatory pay and promotion gaps, and more.
Mr. Sagafi has represented a wide array of workers throughout the country, including HVAC service technicians,...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial Media
Jubin J. Sharifi
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationProducts Liability
Southwestern University School of Law
Jubin J. Sharifi, is the founding attorney at the Sharifi Firm, APC. He graduated from California State University Northridge in 1996, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, with an emphasis on Finance and Marketing. In 2000, he received his J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, located in Los Angeles California. Jubin was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2001 and is also licensed to practice law in the State of Florida.
Jubin clerked in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office, defending the City of Los Angeles against civil claims made against the city in a...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial Media
William S. Shepherd
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 35 years of experience
Free ConsultationSecurities
Georgetown University Law Center and South Texas College of Law
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Cynthia Bernet McGuinn
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 44 years of experience
(415) 940-7176
44 Montgomery Street
Suite 4000
San Francisco, CA 94104
Free ConsultationConsumer and Products Liability
Golden Gate University
San Francisco injury lawyer Cynthia McGuinn is a partner at the firm Rouda Feeder Tietjen & McGuinn. Attorney McGuinn has worked in the legal field for over 33 years. Ms. McGuinn has been selected for inclusion in the 2006 to 2014 Editions of Top 50 Women Northern California Super Lawyers®. She is a fellow at the International Society of Barristers, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, Litigation Counsel of America and American College of Trial Lawyers. Get in touch with her firm today to arrange for a free case evaluation.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
George Ruben Bravo
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationBusiness
Santa Clara University School of Law
I form businesses; draft contracts; protect the business’ brand, secret formulas, or creative works (intellectual property protection); and I assist with buying or selling businesses. Every legal solution is tailored to each client’s specific goals.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Paul W. Thorndal
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 30 years of experience
Paul W. Thorndal is a partner at Wald & Thorndal. He specializes in divorces of all kinds with an emphasis on gay divorce. Mr. Thorndal is a Certified Family Law Specialist (The State Bar of California Legal Specialization).
Wald & Thorndal's practice areas include:
Divorce, Dissolution & Contested Parentage Actions for all families; Custody Disputes; Mediation; Marvin Actions. Legal services provided at both the TRIAL and APPELLATE level.
Assisted Reproduction; Adoptions of All Kinds; Family Contracts; Parenting Law including Surrogacy; Donor Contracts for Egg and/or Sperm Donations; Pre-Nupital Agreements; Co-Parenting Agreements; Domestic Partnership Agreements; Name Changes.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Michael Frederick Cardoza
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer
Georgetown University Law Center
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, joined the Marine Corps and then went to law school. After my active duty time as a trial attorney, I became a senior executive in the debt buying and collections industry on the East Coast. I spent 7 years buying and collecting debts and even running a law firm that collected consumer debt exclusively. I know all the tricks.
I founded The Cardoza Law Corporation to bring the truth to consumers and help you get what you deserve from illegal debt collectors, credit reporting agencies, robo-callers, and businesses that just plain rip...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Mark Hooshmand
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Free ConsultationConsumer
UCLA School of Law
The Hooshmand Law Group is one of the largest tenant firms in the Bay Area that assist Tenants with recovering damages resulting from false Owner Move Ins (OMI), wrongful eviction, lack of repairs, retaliation and retaliatory eviction, buy outs, Illegal Apartments, In Law Apartments and Illegal Units, harassment, and enforcement of the local San Francisco Rent Ordinance, Oakland Rent Ordinance and Berkeley Rent Ordinance.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial Media
Ryan S. Cook
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Securities
South Texas College of Law
As an associate attorney of Shepherd Smith Edwards & Kantas LTD LLP, Ryan Cook maintains an active securities arbitration and litigation practice. Mr. Cook has worked on numerous cases dealing with individual investors, high net worth and institutional investors, corporate executives, regional banks and municipal issuers.
Prior to beginning his law practice, Mr. Cook worked in the securities industry as a licensed and registered representative with a large broker/dealer. He received his Juris Doctor (JD) degree from South Texas College of Law, where he earned his degree Summa Cum Laude (with highest honor) as the graduating salutatorian. Mr. Cook...
Claimed Lawyer Profile
Bruce James Highman
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 43 years of experience
Employment
Stanford Univ Law School
I specialize in representing employees in all types of employment cases. I have been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer each year from 2004 through the present. Only about five percent of the lawyers in Northern California earn the Super Lawyers honor. I have also been named one of the Top 100 High Stakes Litigators in Northern California from 2020 through the present. I have been lead counsel on a number of cases that have resulted in published precedent decisions, have participated in numerous trials, and have appeared as a guest lecturer on employment law issues....
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Jacob Harker
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Free ConsultationUniversity of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Jacob Harker is a San Francisco Bay Area attorney. Mr. Harker has set up and run his law practice in a cost-effective and practical manner. He has done so in an effort to pass on the savings to his clients. As an attorney, Mr. Harker sees his practice as taking the lead in a new era of legal services.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Marnie Cherie Lambert
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 32 years of experience
(888) 203-7833
One Embarcadero Center
Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94111
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation, Business, Consumer and Securities
Pepperdine University
Marnie C. Lambert, the founding member of Lambert Law Firm, LLC, is licensed to practice law in all state courts and federal district courts in Ohio and California. She has spent most of her legal career representing consumers in complex civil litigation, commercial litigation, securities litigation and class actions. She has also represented clients seeking recovery for personal injuries, wrongful death and various business torts. Ms. Lambert received her juris doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1992. She spent the first five years after law school working in Los Angeles, California for a large international law firm....
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Peter Duong
San Francisco , CA Attorney with 27 years of experience
(415) 231-5143
300 Montgomery Street
Room 660
San Francisco , CA 94104
Immigration
Stanford Univ Law School
Mr. Duong is the owner of the Law Offices of Peter Duong. He holds a Juris Doctor from Stanford Law School, where he was president of the Moot Court Board and received the Hilmer Oehlman Memorial Prize and the Ira Driscoll Prize. Prior to law school, Mr. Duong received a Bachelor of Arts in history from the College of William and Mary. He brings to every case more than fifteens years of legal experience. Mr. Duong’s practice focuses on all areas of immigration law including cutting edge and complex cases involving individuals with criminal convictions and same-sex marriage cases....
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Elisabeth A. DeBartolo
Monterey, CA Attorney with 22 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Employment
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Dedicated to providing practical, cost-effective, solutions to workplace challenges. Attorney Elisabeth DeBartolo is your best choice for an employment and labor attorney who offers personalized assistance with your case. She may be the most seasoned employment attorney you will find in our area. Attorney Elisabeth DeBartolo is a Monterey Employment Attorney who worked for many years in executive level Human Resources prior to attending law school. Her experience is unique. She doesn't just have book smarts, she has the day-to-day, on-the-job, in-the-trenches experience needed to identify workplace challenges and resolve them. Ms. DeBartolo can quickly...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Kristin Kemnitzer
San Francisco, CA Lawyer
Consumer
University of California - Berkeley
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Chris Cain
Salinas, CA Attorney
Free ConsultationImmigration
Regent University School of Law
Chris Cain is an experienced attorney specializing in immigration and criminal defense law, with an office located in Salinas, California. With over ten years of experience in the field, Chris has built a reputation for providing high-quality legal services to his clients. He has received numerous positive reviews on both Google and Yelp, with dozens of 5/5 ratings highlighting his expertise and dedication to his clients.
As a criminal defense attorney, Chris focuses on cases related to DUI, reckless driving, and traffic tickets. His in-depth knowledge of the legal system and years of experience make him a formidable advocate in the...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Mr. Ronnie R Gipson Jr
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 20 years of experience
Business, IP and Insurance Defense
University of San Francisco School of Law
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Scott M. Johnson
Concord, CA Attorney with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Santa Clara University School of Law
Hi! I'm Scott M. Johnson and I am founding Partner of Gale, Angelo, Johnson & Patrick PC. I graduated Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a major in American Literature, then attended Santa Clara University Law School and graduated Cum Laude. Prior to starting Gale, Angelo, Johnson & Patrick, P.C., I worked for a consumer bankruptcy law firm assisting debtors.
I have represented hundreds of Debtors in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 bankruptcy cases throughout Northern California, successfully helping them to discharge the burdensome debt, keep their homes, and restore their credit. Scott also represents consumers in...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Philip John Daunt
Monterey, CA Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Univ of Toledo COL
I call myself a Transformational Lawyer, which means that I help my clients to transform their legal problems into opportunities for personal growth and positive change. I call what I do a Coach Approach to the Practice of Law. My practice focuses on small business and real estate issues and mediation. I believe that, as Conflict Managers, lawyers have the opportunity to become Conflict Healers and, in doing so, shift the way conflict is resolved on this planet. To find out more about my law practice, go to my web site: www.pjdlaw.com, or you can find...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
John F. McCarthy
Monterey, CA Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation and Employment
Pepperdine University School of Law and Thomas Jefferson School of Law
I represent people...
People who have suffered injuries because of others.
People who have endured harassment, discrimination, and retaliation at work.
People on Main Street who have been cheated by Wall Street.
People who have been harmed by corporate greed and excess.
People who deserve quality representation, but cannot afford it.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Michael Rinne
Pleasant Hill, CA Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy and International
Golden Gate University and Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
John L. Bailey
Salinas, CA Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Real Estate
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
Description of Alternative Dispute Resolution by Wikipedia
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) includes dispute resolution processes and techniques that act as a means for disagreeing parties to come to an agreement short of litigation. Despite historic resistance to ADR by many popular parties and their advocates, ADR has gained widespread acceptance among both the general public and the legal profession in recent years.
ADR is generally classified into at least four types: negotiation, mediation, collaborative law, and arbitration.
Claimed Lawyer Profile
John Fredrick Klopfenstein
Salinas, CA Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Immigration
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
John is a former Deputy Public Defender for two separate Public Defender offices and has 23 years of criminal law experience. He has handled from simple cases all the way to murder with very successful results
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Marcela Knaup
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Free ConsultationImmigration
University of San Francisco School of Law, University of Salamanca, Spain and Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Argentina
We are dedicated to the practice of Immigration and Naturalization Law exclusively, serving the San Francisco Bay Area. Te: 925-407-2149 Services include: Family immigration law: marriage and fiance visas, family petitions, waivers of unlawful presence, green cards. Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Original Applications and Renewals) Business Immigration law: visas to work and/or invest (HB, TN, E investor visas, employment-based green cards. Visas for athletes and entertainers. LGBT Immigration law: visas and petitions for same sex couples. Citizenship and Naturalization. Languages: English, Spanish Marcela Knaup is a bilingual Spanish-English attorney. www.knauplegal.com Marcela@knauplegal.com Te: ...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Joseph B. Angelo
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Free ConsultationBankruptcy
Willamette University College of Law
I am a founding partner of Gale, Angelo, Johnson & Patrick P.C., and practice in the areas of bankruptcy and consumer litigation. In bankruptcy, I represent both consumer debtors and businesses in chapter 7, 11, and 13 matters. In consumer litigation, I represent consumers in litigation under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Telephone Consumer Reporting Act, the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, and the Rosenthal Act and has handled cases in those areas before both state and federal courts. I also have experience with appeals, having worked on cases before the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel and the Ninth Circuit Court...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial MediaResponsive Law
Daniel Xuli
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 7 years of experience
(925) 932-2468
1255 Treat Boulevard, Suite 600
Walnut Creek, CA 94597-7965
Employment
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
As an San Francisco Bay Area labor and employment attorney at Littler Mendelson, I represent employers in all phases and types of employment litigation (e.g., wage and hour class actions, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, misclassification, wrongful termination, etc.), provide advice and counsel to employers regarding their employment practices and policies, and create and present customized workplace trainings and presentations unique to employers' goals and company culture. My professional experiences outside of the realm of law are rooted in business, management, and accounting.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Tony Ki Yun Kim
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 5 years of experience
(415) 710-7273
P.O. Box 475847
3749 Buchanan Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
Business
Brooklyn Law School
Tony K. Kim is an Associate with Tadler Law LLP. Prior to joining Tadler Law, Tony served as an Assistant District Attorney for the Kings County District Attorney’s Office since 2019. Tony quickly rose up the ranks in a Trial Bureau, starting his career as a misdemeanor prosecutor and ultimately serving as a felony prosecutor. As a Brooklyn prosecutor, he investigated and prosecuted hundreds of misdemeanor and felony criminal cases, including cases involving attempted murder, possession of firearms, robberies, and burglaries. In preparation for grand jury presentations, Tony enhanced investigations by reviewing and obtaining additional evidence, and interviewing civilians and...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Ingrid M. Evans
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 29 years of experience
Consumer and Employment
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Ingrid M. Evans is the founding partner of the Evans Law Firm. Ms. Evans is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, and was named as a Finalist for Consumer Attorney of the Year, Consumer Attorneys of California, 2009. Ingrid Evans is a veteran in the courtroom and was previously undefeated in jury trials as a former Deputy City Attorney for San Francisco. Ingrid Evans is an experienced litigator in state and federal courts and is licensed to practice law in California, the District of Columbia, and New York. Ms. Evans has been named as a 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Sam O'Keefe
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 15 years of experience
(415) 397-9509
1736 Stockton Street
Maybeck Building 4
San Francisco, CA 94133
Free ConsultationWhite Collar Crime
University of San Francisco School of Law
The Law Offices of Douglas Horngrad and Sam O’Keefe have been a preeminent criminal defense firm since 1989, trying cases in the nine Bay Area counties and beyond. The firm is on the cutting edge of criminal law, utilizing novel legal theory and thorough investigation, and the attorneys are known for their responsiveness, discretion, around-the-clock availability, and total devotion to clients.
Sam O’Keefe is a native of San Francisco and started working at the Law Offices of Douglas Horngrad & Sam O'Keefe in 2009. He has extensive experience handling misdemeanor and felony cases in both state and federal courts in California....
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Joseph John Appel
Walnut Creek, CA Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationProducts Liability and Workers' Comp
UC Hastings COL
Joe Appel has specialized in personal injury cases for more than 30 years. He’s seen it, tried it, and won it, both in state and federal courts.
Joe graduated from St. Mary’s College of California, Moraga, California in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He also played basketball for the Galloping Gaels for four years. At graduation Joe received the Scholar Athlete of the Year Award. He then attended and graduated from University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1979. Joe was admitted to the California and Federal Courts in the same year. He has been a member...
Claimed Lawyer Profile
Justin John Glyer
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Business, Communications, Entertainment & Sports and IP
Pepperdine University School of Law
Justin Glyer's practice focuses on media, entertainment, marketing, technology and commercial contracts, start-ups, copyright, trademark, content, internet, communications, privacy and general business law.
Mr. Glyer has conducted successful negotiations with digital media start-ups, artists, producers, movie studios, television networks, promoters, talent agencies, multi-channel internet distributors, record labels, publishers, software developers, internet service providers, social media companies, business development professionals, accounting firms, public speakers, job recruiters, universities and academics, advertisers, marketing, telecommunications and technology companies, insurance carriers and a wide range of other individuals and businesses from the very small to the Fortune 500.
As a long-time former business and legal...
Claimed Lawyer Profile
Kimberly Elizabeth Lewellen
SF, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Free ConsultationUniversity of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
I am a founding partner at Lewellen Family Law Group P.C., where our practice is devoted entirely to family law. As a trial attorney and mediator, I handle cases that involve high conflict situations and complex legal challenges in family law litigation. I am recognized by the State Bar of California as a certified family law attorney.
Throughout my career, I have advised clients ranging from straightforward divorces to those entangled in intricate financial and custody disputes. My deep-seated experience in complex family law litigation and premarital agreements equips me to guide my clients through difficult times to secure favorable results....
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Ted Broomfield
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationGolden Gate University School of Law and Golden Gate University School of Law
Ted Broomfield is one of the top personal injury, privacy and landlord-tenant lawyers in the San Francisco Bay.
He has years of experience, and has helped clients obtain large recoveries for their injuries. He also helps people remove harmful content from the Internet and social media.
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Henry Murphy Burgoyne III
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Business, Communications and IP
Stanford University
Hank Burgoyne is an AV-rated counselor and litigator with more than a dozen years' experience advising technology and other businesses on commercial, intellectual property, advertising, speech, trade secret and data security issues. Hank has particular expertise in digital forensics and evidence, and in licensing, outsourcing, development and similar technology-related transactions.
Hank has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in some of California's most important Internet-related advertising cases, both at the trial court level and before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. A former reporter and newsroom lawyer, Hank counsels clients on copyright, defamation, trademark, privacy and other communications-related issues, and has...
Claimed Lawyer Profile
David Jeanchung Tsai
San Francisco, CA Lawyer with 19 years of experience
(415) 983-1176
Four Embarcadero Center
22nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94111-5998
Antitrust, Business, IP and Patents
Santa Clara University School of Law
David Tsai is Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP’s Taiwan practice co-leader and also a partner in the San Francisco office. David is a first-chair trial lawyer and focuses his practice on intellectual property, patent, trade secret, trademark, copyright, complex breach of contract and product defect litigation in courts and international arbitration tribunals.
David represents world-class corporations innovating biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, software (AI, internet and mobile apps) and hardware (semiconductors, set-top boxes, smartphones, solar wafers and light-emitting diodes/LED/OLED). In addition to litigation, his experience includes preparing and prosecuting U.S. electrical engineering patent applications, drafting patentability, freedom-to-operate and non-infringement opinions, as well...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial Media
Benjamin D. Weisenberg
San Francisco, CA Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Capital University Law School and The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law
Claimed Lawyer ProfileBlawg SearchSocial Media
Christopher Cramer
Gilroy, CA Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationWorkers' Comp
Christopher Clive Cramer has dedicated his professional career to advocating for the rights of injured workers from Salinas to San Jose. He has lectured extensively on the workers' compensation reforms which largely eviscerated an individual's right to obtain temporary disability, permanent disability, medical treatment, and vocational retraining after a workplace injury. A native of Northern California, Chris enjoys sailing, swimming, and hiking with his family.
Education:
The University of California Santa Cruz 1994
Santa Clara University School of Law 2002
Judicial Extern to the Honorable Arthur Weissbrodt (United States Bankruptcy Court) 2001
Admissions:
California and US District Court, Northern District of California 2003
Professional Memberships and Affiliations:
California...
Claimed Lawyer Profile
Keydon Levy
Oakland, CA Lawyer
White Collar Crime
University of California - Berkeley
Keydon Levy is a highly skilled criminal defense attorney with over a decade of courtroom experience. He joined Lamano Law Office in 2021, bringing with him a distinguished background that includes nine years as a Deputy District Attorney for the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. During his tenure as a prosecutor, he managed a high-volume caseload of felony, misdemeanor, and juvenile cases, guiding them from intake to resolution. Witnessing the inequities within the justice system and the profound impact criminal accusations have on people of color, Mr. Levy transitioned to criminal defense to advocate for those facing systemic injustice.
As a...
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Piper Hanson
Pacifica, CA Attorney with 11 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Coastside attorney specializing in estate planning and real estate law. Call 650-762-9090 for a free 30-minute consultation in my Pacifica office or in your home. Happy to visit assisted living facilities as well....I love seniors!
Claimed Lawyer ProfileSocial Media
Gordon Craig Young
Danville, CA Attorney with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationArbitration & Mediation and Securities
U of San Francisco School of Law
Gordon Young is a 25-year litigator, specializing in financial, trust and securities litigation. Gordon tries and arbitrates cases for trustees, beneficiaries, financial professionals, investment advisors, stock brokers, Wall Street banks, and broker-dealers. These cases include civil, probate and regulatory claims based on breach of fiduciary duty, breach of trust, fraud, suitability, mismanagement of mutual funds and managed accounts, the prudent investor rule, as well as employee promissory notes, up-front loans, raiding, trade secret, unfair competition and related employment claims. Gordon has successfully assisted numerous investment professionals with FINRA related expungement actions. Gordon has been recognized eleven times...