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For the eighth consecutive year--2019--Ellis Law Group, LLP has been named a "top tier" law firm in legal malpractice defense by U.S. News & World Report. Led by managing partner Mark Ellis, who was named a "best lawyer" in legal malpractice defense by Best Lawyers for the tenth consecutive year, Ellis Law Group attorneys have successfully defended hundreds of lawyers and/or law firms accused of malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, ethics violations and malicious prosecution. More than 40 victories in attorney malpractice cases were won in trials with jury and bench verdicts. The 2019 U.S. News & World Report rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Mark Ellis was named a 2018 “Super Lawyer” in civil litigation by the national attorney-rating firm Super Lawyers. The honor, which recognizes Mr. Ellis' trial lawyer skills in general, complex and class action litigation, marked the fifteenth year Mr. Ellis has been so honored. Honorees are nominated by their peers and then evaluated by SuperLawyers' research team and a blue ribbon panel of attorneys.
Mark Ellis and David Castro won a 8-0 jury verdict in federal district court April 17, 2017 defending a collection agency accused of violating the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and California’s Rosenthal FDCPA. In Littlejohn v. Financial Credit Network, Inc., the plaintiff claimed the defendant violated the TCPA by automatically dialing his cell phone 75 times over 19 months without express consent. The plaintiff also claimed the number of calls constituted harassment under the FDCPA and Rosenthal FDCPA. The defense successfully argued that the calls were made with consent conferred by Littlejohn’s creditor. Precedent holds that a debt collector acting on behalf of a creditor who has been provided consent obtains that consent. Although Littlejohn claimed he revoked consent on January 2015, no record of a call exists, either from Littlejohn to the defendant or from the defendant to Littlejohn. The jury also found that the 75 calls placed to Littlejohn did not constitute harassment under FDCPA and Rosenthal FDCPA because none were answered. The statutes stipulate that a high frequency of calls is only actionable when it demonstrates an intent to annoy, abuse or harass. The case was tried in U.S. District Court, Central District of Calofornia, John A. Kronstadt presiding.
On March 21, 2017, the First District Court of Appeal, Division 3, affirmed an order by the Alameda Superior Court in favor of Ellis Law Group's client HPROF. In HPROF, LLC v. Bank of America, NA, and Bank of New York Mellon, the Superior Court previously found that the defendant banks had waived their right to arbitrate the parties' dispute because they had litigated heavily in the Superior Court for some 21 months before seeking to compel arbitration. The Court of Appeal also affirmed the trial court's holding that the determination of who decides the issue of waiver by litigation conduct is normally for a court, not an arbitrator. This important decision was written by Justice Stuart R. Pollack.
On March 2017, Ellis Law Group rescued the president of the California Guild (formerly the California State Grange) in a lawsuit brought against him to collect $144,715.70 in attorneys’ fees awarded in trademark infringement litigation against his non-profit corporation. When California Guild lacked cash to pay the court ordered fees, National Grange filed a lawsuit against the president claiming that he and his corporation were indistinguishable. Enter Mark Ellis who, as the president’s defense counsel, defeated claims in U.S. Court, Eastern District of California, that the president treated California Guild’s assets as his own, divested it of funds needed to pay the attorneys’ fees, ignored corporate formalities and acted as the sole decision maker regarding litigation.
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld on January 31, 2017 a district court summary judgment in favor of the defendant in Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC, a class action arising from the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. At issue was whether a fitness gym could solicit former members using telephone numbers given on membership application forms. The class action, defended at trial by Mark E. Ellis and Amanda Griffith and in appellate court by Mr. Ellis, sought damages on behalf 30,000 former gym members who received automatically-dialed phone calls and texts from Vertical Fitness. Plaintiff’s counsel argued on appeal that a signature and telephone number on a membership form did not constitute express consent to receive solicitations. And even if it did, express consent was revoked when the plaintiff terminated his membership three years prior to the solicitations. The Ninth Circuit agreed with the defense that 1) solicitations were within the scope of consent expressed by a signed membership application and 2) revocation of that consent needed to be expressed verbally or in writing by Van Patten to Vertical Fitness.
Mark Ellis won a trial, Obrien v. Gjelsteen, Nov. 17, 2016 on behalf of a plaintiff who claimed breach of a written contract for hay bailing. Superior Court Judge Christopher Krueger ruled that by reviewing an invoice and writing a check for its full amount, the defendant became party to a written and fulfilled contract despite having later stopped payment on his check. The defendant had argued that the contract was unenforceable because it was not fully performed and, notwithstanding that, it was an oral not written contract whose statute of limitations expired after two rather than four years.
Defense counsel Mark Ellis, Andrew Steinheimer and Amanda Griffith won a summary judgment Oct. 3, 2016 in Goodson v. Designed Receivable Solutions Inc., a class action trial arising from alleged violations of the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and California’s Rosenthal FRCPA. Allegedly the defendant violated the FDCPA and Rosenthal FDCPA by telephoning the plaintiff’s cell phone several times to collect a debt already paid. Moreover, the calls allegedly violated the TCPA because they were made using an "automatic telephone dialing system." U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selna ruled that 1) the TCPA claim failed because the defendant was given permission to call the plaintiff and 2) the FDCPA and Rosenthal claims failed because defendant's calls did not constitute abusive, harassing, or oppressive practice.
Firms, a ranking of law firms published by U.S. News & World Report and the lawyer peer-review firm Best Lawyers. Led by partner Mark Ellis, Ellis Law Group attorneys have successfuly defended hundreds of lawyers and/or law firms accused of malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, ethics violations and malicious prosecution. More than 40 victories in attorney malpractice cases were won in trials with jury and bench verdicts. Firms selected for Best Law Firms are "recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise." Factors evaluated by clients included expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness. Rankings also reflect evaluations of law firms by more than 17,000 attorneys. The 2017 Best Law Firms rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Andrew Steinheimer and Amanda Griffith won a summary judgment July 11, 2016 on behalf of a collection agency accused of violating the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and California’s Rosenthal FDCPA. The plaintiff in Reddin v. Rash Curtis & Associates alleged the defendant’s vendor, Global Connect, wrongfully telephoned her regarding a debt of her adult son. Responding to the initial collection call, the plaintiff telephoned and then emailed the defendant demanding her number be removed from its automated dialer campaign. However, a second collection call was made hours before the number was removed. U.S. District Court Judge William B. Shubb held that a reasonable jury could not conclude that the agency’s intent or the natural consequence of the two telephone calls was “to harass, oppress or abuse” the plaintiff.
Mark Ellis was named a 2016 “Super Lawyer” in civil litigation by the national attorney-rating firm Super Lawyers. The honor marked the twelfth year Mr. Ellis has been so honored.
On April 6, 2016, defense counsel Andrew Steinheimer and Amanda Griffith were granted a motion to dismiss a U.S. District Court lawsuit that alleged their client, Credit Bureau of Placer County, Inc., violated the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), California’s Consumer Credit Reporting Act (CCRAA), and the California’s Unfair Competition Law (UCL). The case, Abbot v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc. et. al, entailed claims that the Credit Bureau failed to reasonably investigate and correct information that it furnished to Experian, Equifax and TransUnion after the credit reporting agencies notified the Credit Bureau that the plaintiff disputed their reports. The court rejected the argument that the defendant’s investigation either willfully or negligently ignored approval of the plaintiffs Chapter 13 bankruptcy plan. Click for more information.
Ellis Law Group has again been recognized as a firm that lawyers themselves go to for legal representation. For the fifth consecutive year, Ellis Law Group has been named a Northern California "Top Tier" law firm in legal malpractice defense by U.S. News & World Report and the lawyer peer-review firm Best Lawyers. Firms appearing in the 2016 edition of Best Law Firms are "recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise." Factors evaluated by clients included expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness. Rankings also took into account 6.7 million evaluations of 55,041 individual leading lawyers. The 2016 Best Law Firms rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
For the seventh consecutive year, Best Lawyers has named Mark E. Ellis one of America's leading legal malpractice defense attorneys. Mr. Ellis will be included in the 22nd edition (2016) of The Best Lawyers in America, which honors attorneys in 137 practice areas based on more than 5.5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. Best Lawyers selections are also published by numerous co-sponsors, which include the Los Angeles Times. Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and U.S. News & World Report.
Mr. Ellis has defended hundreds of lawyers and/or law firms accused of malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, ethics violations and malicious prosecution. Certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by the State Bar of California, Mr. Ellis is author of the bestselling E-Book,“The Defense of the Attorney Judgment—Tactical Immunity Doctrine,” which is also a chapter in Best Practices for Defending Professional Liability Claims: Case Studies From Leaders in The Field, a book available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. To read press release, click here.
Mark Ellis and Amanda Griffith successfully represented Well Fargo Bank in a trial (Wells Fargo Bank v. Weiner) arising from defendants’ claim that their guaranty of a $101,654.33 line of credit was revoked by mail prior to its payment to Village Concepts, Inc., a company since dissolved in bankruptcy. Wells Fargo had no record of receipt of the revocation. On June 29, 2015, Judge Alan Perkins of the Sacramento Superior Court ordered the defendants to pay the full amount of the guaranty, plus interest, attorneys’ fees and costs.
For the eleventh year, managing partner Mark Ellis has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers, a rating service that identifies the top 5 percent of American lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. In 2015, Mr. Ellis was deemed by his peers and independent research to be a top attorney in the areas of Civil Litigation, Professional Liability Defense, Class Action/Mass Torts Defense.
Mark Ellis successfully defended a winery against allegations of sexual harassment and discrimination in a two-month trial in which four plaintiffs sought damages totaling more than $45 million. Patterson v. Abundance Vineyards ended in March 2015 with a jury denying any damages to three plaintiffs and awarding a token amount to the fourth. All four plaintiffs were former employees of Abundance Vineyards, which is based in Lodi, CA. The case was tried in Stockton, CA before a jury composed of seven men and five women.
For the fourth consecutive year, Ellis Law Group, LLP has been named a Northern California "Top Tier" law firm in legal malpractice defense by the 2015 edition of Best Law Firms, a ranking of law firms published by U.S. News & World Report and the lawyer peer-review firm Best Lawyers. Firms on the list are "recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. Achieving a tiered ranking signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise." Factors evaluated by clients included expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness. Rankings also took into account evaluations of law firms by more than 17,000 attorneys. The 2015 Best Law Firms rankings can be seen in their entirety by visiting bestlawfirms.usnews.com.
Best Lawyers has named Mark Ellis one of America's leading legal malpractice defense attorneys in its 2015 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. This is the sixth consecutive year that Mr. Ellis has been so honored by Best Lawyers, whose publication includes attorneys in 137 practice areas located in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Rankings are based on more than 5.5 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.
Originally the trial court denied the motion for class certification. This decision was reversed by the California Third District Court of Appeals. A settlement, entitling class members to monetary awards, was approved by the Superior Court on June 9, 2014.
Partners Mark Ellis and Andrew Steinheimer defeated in June 2014 claims by a student loan debtor in U.S. District Court that National Enterprise Systems, Inc. violated the Federal Debt Collections Practice Act and its California law counterpart, Rosenthal FDCPA. FALU-MAYSOMET v. NATIONAL ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS, INC. involved allegations that the defendant used deception and unconscionable practices to collect a debt. Such conduct, the plaintiff further argued, warranted a class action under California law. Click to read press release.
A U.S. District Court of the Southern District of California ruled May 2014 in favor of a defendant fitness gym in a class action lawsuit seeking damages on behalf 30,000 former gym members who claimed the defendant violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by texting them two marketing solicitations. The defendant was represented by Andrew Steinheimer, Mark Ellis and Ephraim Egan.
Central to the dispute in Van Patten v. Vertical Fitness Group, LLC was whether inclusion of a cell phone number on an application form constitutes express consent by the applicant to receive automatically-dialed phone calls and texts. The court held that, barring no stipulated restrictions by the applicant, express consent is conferred by a signed application. This consent continues even if membership is discontinued. Click to read press release.
ELLIS NAMED 2014 "SUPER LAWYER"
For the eleventh consecutive year, managing partner Mark Ellis has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers, a rating service that identifies the top 5 percent of American lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. In 2014, Mr. Ellis was deemed by his peers and independent research to be a top attorney in the areas of civil litigation defense, professional liability defense, and class action/mass torts litigation.
In January 2014, Ellis Law Group partners Theresa LaVoie and Mark Ellis successfully defended the Western Placer Unified School District before the California Third District Court of Appeals against an employee, Richard Thornbrough, who claimed he had been wrongfully terminated for among other things, First Amendment protected speech. The case, Thornbrough v. Western Placer Unified School District, also involved claims the hearing officer who heard the termination hearing was biased, as well as other supposed violations of due process. Click to read Press Release.
Mark Ellis successfully defended Credit Bureau Associates in an adversary proceeding brought on behalf of Hye Rhee Kong in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. The adversary complaint alleged violations of the California Consumer Credit Reporting Act (CCCRA), the Fair Credit Report Act (FCRA), and the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). Click here to read press release.
For the third consecutive year, Ellis Law Group, LLP has been named a Northern California "Top Tier" law firm in legal malpractice defense by the 2014 edition of Best Law Firms, a ranking of law firms published by U.S. News & World Report and the lawyer peer-review firm Best Lawyers Ellis Law Group was awarded Top Tier status based on extensive surveys of the firm's clients and of lawyers outside the firm. Clients were asked about Ellis Law Group's expertise, responsiveness, cost-effectiveness, civility, and whether they would refer others to the firm. Lawyers evaluated the firm's expertise, responsiveness, integrity, cost-effectiveness and competitiveness. Rankings also took into account 4.3 million evaluations of more than 68,000 of the nation's leading attorneys collected by Best Lawyers. Click for more . . .
Mark E. Ellis’ bestselling E-Book, “The Defense of the Attorney Judgment: Tactical: Immunity Doctrine will become a chapter in a paperback that will be available this fall at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Titled Best Practices for Defending Professional liability Claims: Case Studies From Leaders in The Field, the book is being published by ExecSense.
Mark E. Ellis will be included in the 2013-14 edition of The Best Lawyers in America under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law -- Defendants. This is the fifth consecutive year Mr. Ellis has been recognized by Best Lawyers, which bases its selections on a peer-review survey consisting of almost 3 million confidential evaluations by the leading attorneys in the United States. The publication has been described by The American Lawyer as the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice. Excerpts of lists appear in Corporate Counsel magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, and more than 60 other regional magazines.
For the tenth consecutive year, managing partner Mark Ellis has been named a Northern California Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers, a rating service that identifies the top 5 percent of American lawyers from more than 70 practice areas. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. Mr. Ellis was named a top attorney in the areas of civil litigation defense, professional liability defense, and class action/mass torts litigation.
For the fifth consecutive year, Andrew Steinheimer has been named a Northern California "Rising Star" by SuperLawyers in the practice area of civil litigation defense. Rising Stars are "up-and-coming attorneys 40 or younger and/or attorneys who have practiced for 10 years or less." Lawyers can only be nominated by other attorneys who have personally observed the nominee in action as opposing counsel or co-counsel, or through other firsthand courtroom observation. No more than 2.5 percent of California attorneys are named Rising Stars.
Mark E. Ellis and Andrew M. Steinheimer spoke on the do's and don'ts of call recording and monitoring at the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals International's 74th Annual Conference and Exposition, which was held July 2013 in San Diego. (See PowerPoint presentation.) The presentation focused on the rising tide of lawsuits, many of them class actions, brought against collection agencies for wrongful telephone practices.
Mark E. Ellis was featured on the cover of the July/August 2013 edition of Collector’s Ink, the news magazine of the California’s Association of Collectors, Inc. Mark has represented collection agencies and their attorneys since 1987. He regularly speaks on legal issues at CAC events and is a regular contributor of articles to Collector’s Ink. (See Publications for copies of articles.). Interviewed for the “Member Spotlight” section of the magazine, Mark answered questions about his role as a collection industry advocate.
Contrary to the belief of some attorneys, attorney judgment doctrines are not narrowly circumscribed. Rather, they present a broad array of rules that operate to protect attorneys when they are exercising their judgments in various ways. Mark E. Ellis, a nationally recognized legal malpractice defense attorney, examines these rules in the eBook “The Defense of the Attorney JudgmentTactical Immunity Doctrine,” whose sales rank among the top 100 by Amazon.com.
Mark E. Ellis presented an “Update on Statutory Causes of Action” at the 12th annual Legal Malpractice and Risk Management Conference held in Chicago March 6-8, 2013. Mark discussed the growing number of claims being brought against attorneys arising from the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA) and the Telephone Consumer Practices (TCPA). Also discussed was the impact on consumer protection expected to be made by the Consumer Financial Protection Board (CFPB).
Mark E. Ellis argued before 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on February 14 in the case of Sultan Hammeed v.IHOP, an important franchise law case that will establish when the statute of limitations commences in Unfair Competition Law cases under Business and Professions Code 17208 in which the wrongful practice was ongoing.
For the second consecutive year U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers have ranked Ellis Law Group as a "tier one" firm in the field of legal malpractice defense. The 2013 Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that included thousands of clients and top lawyers. The national and metropolitan first-tier rankings are featured in the "Best Law Firms" standalone publication, which is distributed to 30,000 general counsel, and in a digital format worldwide. The rankings are also posted online at the U.S. News website and the first-tier rankings are featured in U.S. News & World Report's Money issue of Nov. 2012.
Mark E. Ellis will be included in the 2012-13 edition of The Best Lawyers in America under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law. Best Lawyers bases its selections on a peer-review survey comprising almost 3 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. Its lists of attorneys appear in national publications and regional publications nationwide.
Ellis Law Group has moved to newly renovated offices at 740 University Ave. Our new home is a single story building that brings our attorneys and staff together in a contiguous space, offers ample room for expansion and provides underground parking.
Mark Ellis will be one of five panelists in a two hour discussion of litigation facing the collection industry scheduled for Tuesday, October 2, in Monterrey at the Annual Conference of the California Association of Collectors. Moderated by CAC General Counsel Tom Griffin, the panel of attorneys will address recent cases, new plaintiff's tactics, how to defend against consumers lawsuits, best practices and the latest developments regarding SB 890.
Mark Ellis will speak on the topic "Legal Ethics and Client Communications" on Saturday, October 20, at the 34th Annual Educational Seminar of the Paralegal Association of Santa Clara County (PASCCO) in Palo Alto. Mr. Ellis will focus on the ethical considerations of transmitting sensitive client information via text messages, e-mail and social media.
Mark E. Ellis will be featured as one of the nation's top attorneys in the 2012 Super Lawyers Business Edition, which will be published in September. The publication is an annual resource distributed by the attorney rating service Super Lawyersto 40,000 CEOs, presidents and in-house counsel of the nation's largest companies. Mr. Ellis will appear under the section on Litigation, one of five practice areas addressed by the publication. 2012 marks the ninth consecutive year Mr. Ellis has been named a Super Lawyer.
Managing partner Mark E. Ellis has been certified as a specialist in legal malpractice law by the California Board of Legal Specialization of the State Board of California. Attorneys certified as specialists have taken and passed a written examination in their specialty field, demonstrated a high level of experience in the specialty field, fulfilled ongoing education requirements and been favorably evaluated by other attorneys and judges familiar with their work.
Mark E. Ellis received another favorable verdict February 12, 2012 following a four-week jury trial in San Jose, California. Their client, an attorney, had been sued for legal malpractice, breach of fiduciary duty and breach of contract. The plaintiff had sought more than $2,000,000 in damages. The jury returned a 12-0 verdict in favor of the attorney in less than 12 hours. After the verdict, the jubilant client expressed relief and profound appreciation for his representation. He stated he felt lucky Ellis Law Group had been on his side.
For the ninth consecutive year, managing partner Mark Ellis was named a Northern California Super Lawyer by SuperLawyers.com and Law & Politics magazine. No more than 5 percent of a state's attorneys are selected as Super Lawyers. For the fourth consecutive year, Andrew Steinheimer was named a Northern California "Rising Star" by SuperLawyers.com. Rising Stars are "up-and-coming attorneys 40 years old or younger and/or attorneys who have practiced for 10 years or less." No more than 2.5 percent of California attorneys are named Rising Stars.
Mark Ellis and Ronald Poirier settled a discrimination lawsuit on behalf of their plaintiff/client brought against the Transportation Security Agency (TSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The case, Zamora v. Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, settled for $500,000, reportedly one of the largest settlements ever paid out by TSA.
The Ellis Law Group has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers as a tier one firm in the field of legal malpractice defense (see press release). The 2011-2012 Best Law Firms rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that included thousands of clients and top lawyers. The national and metropolitan first-tier rankings are featured in the "Best Law Firms" standalone publication, which was distributed to 30,000 general counsel, and in a digital format worldwide. The rankings are also posted online at the U.S. News website and the first-tier rankings are featured in U.S. News & World Report's Money issue of Nov. 2011.
"The Paralegal's Guide to the Legal Ethics of Client Communications" is the title of a seminar Mark Ellis will present Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2011 via webcast and teleconferencing to a national audience on behalf of the National Business Institute. Intended for paralegals, legal assistants and other legal support staff, the seminar will explore modern technology's impact on a legal team's ethical obligation to keep clients apprised of case progress. For more information and to enroll, see NBI's web page on the seminar.
Ellis Law Group's plans to move to 740 University Ave. to accommodate future growth was the focus of an Oct. 7, 2011 article in the Sacramento Business Journal The firm's new home will be a single story building that brings our 12 attorneys and 13 staff together in a contiguous space. Expected to be available March 1, it will also offer ample room for expansion over the next five years and include amenities such as trial preparation space and underground parking.
Mark Ellis will be included in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in America under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law. This is the third consecutive year he has been recognized by Best Lawyers, which bases its selections on a peer-review survey comprising more than 2.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. The publication has been described by The American Lawyer as "the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice." Excerpts of lists appear in Corporate Counsel magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, and more than 60 other regional magazines, reaching more than 15 million readers.
For the eighth consecutive year, partner Mark Ellis was named a Northern California Super Lawyer by SuperLawyers.com and Law & Politics magazine. And for the second consecutive year, partner Andrew Steinheimer was named a Northern California "Rising Star." Rising Stars are defined by SuperLawyers.com as up-and-coming attorneys 40 years old or younger and/or attorneys who have practiced for 10 years or less. A feature on 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars will be published by Sacramento Magazine in November.
ANDREW STEINHEIMER OBTAINS DEFENSE JURY VERDICT IN FDCPA CASE.
Jones v. CBSJ Financial Corp. (N.D. Cal. January 11, 2011): After a mere 25 minutes of deliberations, a unanimous jury rejected plaintiffâï¿½ï¿½s claims under the federal and state Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and entered a complete defense verdict in favor of the firm's client. Andrew Steinheimer tried the case in front of the Honorable William J. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The case was venued in San Francisco, California.
Mark Ellis will be included in the 2011 edition of The Best Lawyers in America under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law. This will be the second consecutive year Mr. Ellis has been recognized by Best Lawyers, which bases its selections on a peer-review survey comprising more than 2.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country.
After a lengthy and highly publicized trial, Mark Ellis won a 12-0 jury verdict Oct. 18, 2010 exonerating his clients David W. Girard and Allen R. Vinson of the Girard & Vinson law firm of legal malpractice allegations. The lawsuit was brought by the Sacramento City Unified School District, which sought $4.2 million in damages alleging the two lawyers failed to identify risks associated with an alternative pension plan they promoted. The trial began Aug. 18 and featured 26 witnesses and 3,000 pages of court documents. The Sacramento Bee ran several articles on the trial, the most recent appearing Oct 14 to report the case had gone to the jury and the last article appearing Oct. 19 to report the jury's verdict.
For the seventh consecutive year, partner Mark Ellis was named a Northern California Super Lawyer by SuperLawyers.com and Law & Politics magazine. And for the second consecutive year, partner Andrew Steinheimer was named a Northern California "Rising Star" by SuperLawyers.com. Rising Stars are defined by SuperLawyers.com as up-and-coming attorneys 40 years old or younger and/or attorneys who have practiced for 10 years or less. A feature on 2010 Northern California Super Lawyers and Rising Stars will be published by Sacramento Magazine in November.
An Aug. 13, 2010 article in the Sacramento Business Journal featured a class action lawsuit brought by the firm against the International House of Pancakes on behalf of Sacramento IHOP franchisee Sultan Hameed. Mark Ellis stated Hameed's damages for breach of contract, violation of unfair competition law, and other complaints could exceed $400,000. Further investigation in preparation for trial will determine if more than 1,300 IHOP franchises nationwide have similar problems, he said.
Theresa LaVoie, a former president of Women Lawyers of Sacramento, has been elected to serve a 3-year term on the Board of Directors of the Sacramento County Bar Association.
Mark Ellis and Andrew Steinheimer collaborated with Ronald Zumbrun to author an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the California Collectors Association in Jerman v. Carlisle, McNellie, Rini, Kramer & Ulrich LPA, a case argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in January 2010. At issue is whether a debt collector’s legal error qualifies for the bona fide error defense under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA).
Mark Ellis is included in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America under the specialty of Legal Malpractice Law. Selection to Best Lawyers, which has been published for more than a quarter century, is based on a peer-review survey comprising more than 2.8 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. The advertisement-free publication has been described by The American Lawyer as the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice. Excerpts of lists appear in Corporate Counsel magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, and more than 60 other regional magazines, reaching more than 15 million readers.
For the sixth consecutive year, Law & Politics magazine selected Mark Ellis as a Northern California "Super Lawyer." SuperLawyers.com also named Andrew Steinheimer a "Rising Star." Rising stars are up-and-coming attorneys 40 years old or younger and/or attorneys who have practiced for 10 years or less.
Mark Ellis was interviewed in a Sept. 19, 2008 Sacramento Business Journal article that noted conflict must be profitable "judging by a local boutique trial and litigation law firm that specializes in going to court rather than settling cases." In two years, the article notes, the size of the firm has tripled.
Mark Ellis was named a 2008 Northern California "Super Lawyer" by SuperLawyers.com and San Francisco Magazine. It is the sixth consecutive year Mr. Ellis has received the honor.
Rouse v. Clark (S.D. Cal. August 2008) involved the claim that a collection attorney intentionally attempted to collect a debt owed by the father from the son by recording a default judgment against the son's residence. Plaintiff alleged that these claims violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, California's Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, California's Unfair Competition Law, and California Consumer Legal Remedies Act, as well as supported common law claims for intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Mark Ellis argued that the default judgment was recorded against the judgment debtor and that recordation of the default judgment in the county in which it was obtained was the industry practice and reasonable. In other words, there was no improper collection activity. After one week of trial, the jury returned a unanimous verdict in favor of the collection attorney, his law firm, and his staff. The debt buyer client had been dismissed by the Court after the close of plaintiff's case in chief. The plaintiff's counsel had asked the jury to award $500,000 for a lost refinancing opportunity and more than $500,000 in emotional distress damages. The plaintiff's attorney had withdrawn the plaintiff's $400,000 settlement demand after 10:00 p.m. the night before the case went to the jury.
Partners Mark Ellis and Theresa LaVoie successfully defended a legal malpractice case brought against their law firm client (Bloom v. HBCW, October 2007), obtaining a complete defense verdict and exoneration for the law firm and its attorneys. After the five week jury trial, the jury also returned a favorable verdict for the firm against its former clients for their failure to pay the fees and cost incurred by the firm in the earlier representation. In rejecting the allegations that the law firm was not entitled to be fully paid, the jury awarded the firm everything it was seeking. Ultimately the client law firm was awarded total judgments exceeding $425,000 in damages, attorney’s fees and costs.
Mark Ellis co-presented with Kevin Culhane a seminar titled "Rules and Procedures for Federal Court Success" in Santa Rosa on Nov. 12, Sacramento on Nov. 16, and Fresno on Nov. 30, 2007. The seminar focused on the rules and procedures particular to federal court covering case filings, discovery, evidence, expert witnesses and more. Mark Ellis joined Bonnie Anderson and E. Warren Gubler to present "FDCPA Compliance for the California Practitioner" on Jan. 11, 2008. This seminar will covered the dos and don'ts in trying to collect a debt. NBI's Web site is nbi-sems.com.
Mark Ellis was part of a legal panel at a seminar presented by the California Association of Collectors at its 90th annual convention held in Monterey in October 2007. The panel discussed issues and legal trends regarding FDCPA, the Rosenthal FDCPA, and the Identity Theft Act.
Theresa LaVoie was quoted as an expert on equine law in an August 20, 2007 article titled "Holding Their Horses: Attorneys Bone Up, Ride Into a Growing Legal Niche."
Theresa LaVoie, president of Women Lawyers of Sacramento, was featured in an article on WLS's new officers in the April 2007 edition of The Sacramento Lawyer, a magazine published by the Sacramento County Bar Association.
Mark Ellis was named a 2007 Northern California "Super Lawyer" by SuperLawyers.com and San Francisco Magazine. It is the fifth consecutive year Mr. Ellis has received the honor.
Theresa LaVoie has been named 2007 President of Women Lawyers of Sacramento. an organization founded in 1962 that advocates legislative changes to benefit women and children, supports candidates for judicial and other public appointments, and sponsors events for members to meet other attorneys, judges and legislators.

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Duration of economic use of dairy cattle is one of the most important reserves for the further growth of the number of livestock, improvement of breeding and productive qualities of animals. Since the improvement of domestic dairy breeds is mainly due to the crossbreeding with the bulls of the Holstein breed, a continuous analysis of the breeding process in the breed and in its individual genealogical formations, in particular in the types and lines, in order to establish the best ways to conduct selective work with the breeds, is relevant. Detection and evaluation of lines, the descendants of which are capable of prolonged productive use, will allow for an optimizing selection for lengthening the life-time use of cows. In this regard, the purpose of our research was to study the duration and effectiveness of life-time use of cows of different lines of the Prycarpathian intra-breed type of Ukrainian Red-and-White breed and the reasons for their release from the herd.
Research conducted on cows of inter-breed type of Prycarpathian Ukrainian Red-and-White dairy breed in the PAE "Mamayivske" Kytsman district based on the base of zootechnical register. The sample included 1075 animals, the first of which was at least eight years before the start of the study. Retrospective analysis of the duration and effectiveness of life-time use of cows was carried out according to Yu. P. Polupan's method. It was established that the duration of economic use of cows in the PAE Mamayevske, depending on the line, was within the range of 3.1–6.5 lactation. Life yield (3294 days), productive use (2454 days), lactation (1954 days), lifetime milk yield (37444 kg), lifetime number of fat (1394 kg), the number of lactations for life (6,5 lactation) and the rate of economic use (0.74) were the best animals that belonged to the P. Astronavt line 1458744. Approximate figures of productive longevity of cows were marked in Rigel line 352882. The descendants Valiant 1,650,414 were of the smallest used in herds and had the lowest performance line.
The effect of the linear dependence of cows on the duration and effectiveness of their productive use, depending on the indicator, was within the range of 4.26–31.17%. It should be noted that the most significant impact of the line was on yield for one day of productive use (31.17%) and one day of lactation (30.43%). The least effect on the linear dependence of cows was on yield for one day of life (4.26%) and the average lifespan of fat in milk (4.79%). Strength of the line's influence on life yield, productive use and lactation of animals, the number of lactation per life and the rate of economic use, depending on the indicator, was within 12.11–16.45%.
The coefficients of inheritance of life yields, productive use and lactation and the number of lactations calculated by the mother-daughter method were 15.8; 22.0; 21.4 and 19.1%. Life yields, the lifetime of milk fat and the average lifespan of fat in milk were the lowest level of inheritance – respectively 6.3; 7.5 and 10.1%. The highest coefficients of inheritance were noted for one day of productive use (39.4%) and lactation (46.8%). As a rule, daughters whose mothers have maintained high productivity for a long time and have long been exploited also have potential for prolonged productive use. We did not reveal any special differences between animals of different lines by the coefficients of inheritance of the above-mentioned indices.
Disposal of animals from the herd was mainly due to reproductive function disorders (25.2–34.6%) and low productivity (13.4–27.1%). Among the studied lines due to the reproductive function impairment, the most abandoned animal lines of the P. Astronavt and Rigel were 34.6 and 31.7% respectively, while the least of those of the Valiant line was 25.2%. Due to its low productivity and disease, the largest number of cows (13.4–27.1%) fell out of the Valiant line. At the same time, the animals of the Valiant line were marked by the lowest percentage of rejection due to physiological aging (15.0%), and the highest was in animals P. Astronavt line (21.3%). Due to diseases of the limbs, from the herd dropped, depending on the line, 8.0–12.1% of cows, due to injuries and accidents - 3.2–5.7%, and for other reasons - 4.7–9.3%.
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J.M. Almendros-Jiménez, A. Luna and G. Moreno (2012). XII Spanish Conference on Programming and Computer Languages (PROLE 2012). Electronic Communications of the EASST, Volume 10.
P. Julián, J. Medina, G. Moreno and M. Ojeda-Aciego (2009). Thresholded tabulation in a fuzzy logic setting. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 248, Pages 115-130. Elsevier Science (Amsterdam).
Juan A. Guerrero and G. Moreno (2008). Optimizing fuzzy logic programs by unfolding, aggregation and folding. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 219, Pages 19-34. Elsevier Science (Amsterdam).
J.M. Abietar, P. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2007). Designing a Software Tool for Fuzzy Logic Programming. Computation in Modern Science and Engineering, Volume 2, pp: 1117-1120. American Institute of Physics, Distributed by Springer-Verlag (Berlín). ISBN 978-0-7354-0478-6. Print ISSN 0094-243X . Online ISSN 1551-7616.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2007). Efficient Reductants Calculi by Using Partial Evaluation Techniques with Thresholding. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Volume 188, pages 77-90. Elsevier. Available: Accepted Manuscript (dvi/Postscript/pdf/bibtex).
P. Julián. Partial Evaluation of Lazy Functional Logic Programs. AI Comunications. (16)1. Volume 16, number 2, pages 121-123. Available: Abstract (dvi/Postscript/pdf).
M. Alpuente, Moreno Falaschi, Pascual Julián and Germán Vidal. Uniform Lazy Narrowing. Journal of Logic and Computation. (16)2: 287-312, 2003. You can find here some experiments and benchmark programs.
M. Alpuente, M. Falaschi, P. Julián and G. Vidal. Lazy Narrowing and Needed Narrowing: A Comparison. Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming, WFLP 2002, Grado, Italy, Jun. 20-22, 2002. Udine University. Research Report UDMI/18/2002/RR, pp. 21-34. Available: dvi/Postscript/pdf / bibtex .
S. Antoy, P. Julián and B. Massey. Improving the Efficiency of Non-Deterministic Computations. Electronic Notes in Computer Science, Vol.64 (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs/volume64.html). Pages 77-98. Elsevier Science, 2002. (Extended version of a previous paper in WFLP 2001) Available:dvi/Postscript/pdf/bibtex . Also, you can find here some benchmark programs used in the experiments.
G. Moreno, J. Penabad and G. Vidal (2016). Tuning Fuzzy Logic Programs with Symbolic Execution. arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.04688.
P. Julián Iranzo, G. Moreno, J. Penabad and C. Vázquez (2016). A declarative semantics for a fuzzy logic language managing similarities and truth degrees. International Symposium on Rules and Rule Markup Languages for the Semantic Web. Pages 68-82. Springer (in press).
J. Almendros, A. Luna and G. Moreno (2016). Debugging while interpreting fuzzy XPath queries. Proc. of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZIEEE’16. Pages 233-240. IEEE (in press).
P.J. Morcillo, G. Moreno (2015). Efficient Unfolding of Fuzzy Connectives for Multi-adjoint Logic Programs⋆. ESCIM 2015. Pages: 109.
P. Julián-Iranzo, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2015). A fuzzy logic programming environment for managing similarity and truth degrees. arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.02034.
C. Vázquez, G. Moreno, L. Tomás and J. Tordsson (2015). A Cloud Scheduler Assisted by a Fuzzy Affinity-Aware Engine. Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZIEEE’15. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2-5, 2015. Pages 8. IEEE.
J. Guerrero, M. S. Martínez, G. Moreno and C. Vázquez (2015). Designing Lattices of Truth Degrees for Fuzzy Logic Programming Environments. Proc. of the 2015 IEEE , 2015 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence. Pages 995-1004. IEEE.
J.M. Almendros-Jiménez, A. Luna and G. Moreno (2015). Thresholded Debugging of XPath Queries. Proc. of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems, FUZZIEEE’15. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2-5, 2015. Pages 1- 9. IEEE .
J.M. Almendros-Jiménez, M. Bofill, A. Luna-Tedesqui, G. Moreno, C. Vázquez and M. Villaret (2015). Fuzzy XPath for the Automatic Search of Fuzzy Formulae Models. Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM’15. Quebec, Canada, September 16-18, 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 385-398. Springer.
L. Tomás, C. Vázquez, J. Tordsson and G. Moreno (2015). Reducing noisy-neighbor impact with a fuzzy affinity-aware scheduler. Proc. of the International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing (ICCAC), 2015 . Pages 33-44. IEEE.
P.J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2015). Improving Multi-adjoint Logic Programms by Unfolding Fuzzy Connective Definitions. In Proc. of the 13th. International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2015, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 10-12. Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9094, pages 511-524. Springer. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19258-1_42.
P. Julián, G. Moreno, J. Penabad and C. Vázquez (2014). A Fuzzy Logic Programming Environment for Managing Similarity and Truth Degrees. Proc. of XIV Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’14, Cádiz, Spain, September 17-19, pages 145-154. University of Cádiz.
J.M. Almendros-Jiménez, A. Luna and G. Moreno, (2014). Towards an XQuery-based implementation of Fuzzy XPath. Proc. of XIV Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’14, Cádiz, Spain, September 17-19, pages 73-88. University of Cádiz.
M. Bofill, G. Moreno, C.Vázquez and M. Villaret (2013). Automatic Proving of Fuzzy Formulae with Fuzzy Logic Programming and SMT. Proc. of XIII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’13, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, pages 151-165. Technical University of Madrid (ISBN 978-84-695-8331-9).
P. Eklund, M.A. Galán, R. Helgesson, J. Kortelainen, G. Moreno and C. Vázquez (2013). Towards a Categorical Description of Fuzzy Logic Programming. Proc. of XIII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’13, Madrid, Spain, September 17-20, pages 126-135. Technical University of Madrid (ISBN 978-84-695-8331-9).
P.J. Morcillo, G. Moreno, J. Penabad and C. Vázquez (2012). String-based Multi-adjoint Lattices for Tracing Fuzzy Logic Computations. Proc. of XII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’12, Almería, Spain, 18-19 September, pages 18-19. University of Almería (ISBN 978-84-15487-27-2).
J.M. Almendros-Jiménez, A. Luna and G. Moreno (2012). Debugging Fuzzy XPath Queries. Proc. of XII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’12, Almería, Spain, 17-19 September, pages 119-133. University of Almería (ISBN 978-84-15487-27-2).
G. Moreno, J. Penabad, and C. Vázquez (2012). On Fuzzy Correct Answers and Logical Consequences in Multi-Adjoint Logic Programming. Proc. of 12th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, CMMSE’12. La Manga, Spain, July 2-5. Volume III. Pages: 864-875. ISBN: 978-84-615-5392-1.
G. Moreno, J. Penabad, and C. Vázquez (2012).SSE: Similarity-based Strict Equality for Multi-Adjoint Logic Programms. Proc. of 12th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, CMMSE’12. La Manga, Spain, July 2-5. Editor: J. Vigo-Aguiar. Volume III. Pages: 876-887. ISBN: 978-84-615-5392-1.
P.J. Morcillo, G. Moreno, J. Penabad, and C. Vázquez (2011). Dedekind-Macneille Completion and Multi-Adjoint Lattices. Proc. of 11th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (special session on ‘Mathematical Methods for Computer Science’), CMMSE’11. Benidorm, Spain, June 26-30, volume 2, pages 846-857. (ISBN 978-84-614-6167-7).
J.A. Guerrero, G. Moreno, and C. Vázquez (2010). Una implementación del lambda-cálculo en prolog. Proc. of II Taller de Programación Funcional, TPF’10, Valencia, Spain, September 7, pages 7-14. Garceta grupo editorial (ISBN 978-84-92812-55-4).
P. Julián, J. Medina, G. Moreno, and M. Ojeda-Aciego (2010). Efficient thresholded tabulation for fuzzy query answering. Proc. of X Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’10, Valencia, Spain, September 7-10 , page 147. Garceta grupo editorial, 2010 (in “published works” section). ISBN 978-84-92812- 55-4.
P.J. Morcillo, G. Moreno, J. Penabad, and C. Vázquez (2010). Multi-adjoint lattices for manipulating truth-degrees into the FLOPER system. Proc. of X Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’10, Valencia, Spain, September 7-10 , pages 151-161. Garceta grupo editorial (ISBN 978-84-92812-55-4).
P.J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2009). Unfolding connective definitions in multi-adjoint logic programs. Proc. of the First Workshop on Computational Logics and Artificial Intelligence, CLAI’2009 (integrated in CAEPIA’2009), Sevilla, Spain, November 9, pages 59-70. Universidad de Sevilla.
G. Moreno (2009). Similarity-based equality with lazy evaluation. Proc. of the First Workshop on Computational Logics and Artificial Intelligence, CLAI’2009 (integrated in CAEPIA’2009), Sevilla, Spain, November 9, pages 13-22. Universidad de Sevilla.
P. Julián-Iranzo. A procedure for the construction of a similarity relation. In Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-based Systems (IPMU 2008), June 22-27, 2008, Málaga, Spain, pp. 8, Universidad de Málaga, 2008 (Accepted for publication). Available: (dvi/Postscript/pdf/bibtex).
P. J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2008). Programming with Fuzy Logic Rules by using the FLOPER tool. Proc. of 2nd Intl Symposium on rule Interchange and aplications, (RuleML’08), Orlando, U.S.A. . October 30-31. Springer Verlag, Lectures Notes Computer Sciences 3521, pp 119-126.
P. Julián, J. Medina, G. Moreno and M. Ojeda (2008). Tresholded Tabulation in a Fuzzy Logic Setting. Proc. of VIII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’08), Gijon, Spain . October 7-10. pages 57-71. Fundación Universidad de Oviedo, 2008. (ISBN 978-84-612-5819-2).
P. J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2008). FLOPER, a Fuzzy Logic Programming Environment for Research. Proc. of VIII Jornadas sobre “Programación y Lenguajes, PROLE’2008″, Gijón, Spain, October 7-10, pages 259-263. Fundación Universidad de Oviedo (ISBN 978-84-612-5819-2).
P. J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2008). Using FLOPER for Running/Debugging Fuzzy Logic Programs. Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing and management of Uncertainty in Knoledge-based Systems (IPMU’08), Málaga, Spain . June 22-27. Pages 481-488. University of Málaga (ISBN 978-84-612-3061-7).
P. Julián, J. Medina, G. Moreno and M. Ojeda (2008). Combining tabulation and thresholding techniques for executing multi-adjoint logic programs. Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Information Processing and management of Uncertainty in Knoledge-based Systems (IPMU’08), Málaga, Spain . June 22-27. Pages 550-512. University of Málaga (ISBN 978-84-612-3061-7).
P. J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2008). The Fuzzy Logic Programming Environment FLOPER. 15th International Symposium on formal Methods (FM 2008), “Poster and Research Tools”, Turku, Finland. May 26-30 .
J.M. Abietar, Pedro J. Morcillo, G. Moreno, T. Simos and G. Maraoulis (2007). Designing a software tool for fuzzy logic programming. Proc. of AIP Conference Proceedings. Volume 963. Number 2, pages 1117-1120. AIP.
J.A. Guerrero and G. Moreno (2007). Optimizing Fuzzy Logic Programs by Unfolding, Aggregation and Folding . Proc. of 8th International Workshop on Rule-Based Programming (RULE’07), Paris, France. June 29. 15 pages. University of Paris.
G. Moreno and V. Pascual (2007). Similarity-based Unification Embedded into Narrowing . Proc. of 21th International Workshop on Unification (UNIF’07), Paris, France. June 29. 15 pages. University of Paris.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2007). Measuring the Interpretive Cost in Fuzzy Logic Computations . Proc. of the International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications (WILF’07), Genova , Italy . July 7-10 . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (to appear) pp. 8. Springer- Verlag.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2007). Cost Measures for Fuzzy Logic Computations . Proc. of VII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’07), Zaragoza , Spain . September. 12-14 (to appear). 10 pages. University of Zaragoza.
J.M. Abietar , P.J. Morcillo and G. Moreno (2007). Building a Fuzzy Logic Programming Tool . Proc. of VII Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’07), Zaragoza , Spain . September. 12-14. 10 pages. University of Zaragoza.
G. Moreno and V. Pascual (2006). Soft Computing with Strict Similar Equality. Proc. of 6th International Conference on Recent Advances in Soft Computing, RASC’2006. Canterbury, UK. July, 10-12. Ed. Konstantinos Sirlantzis, University of Kent. pp. 24-29. ISBN: 978-1-902671-42-0.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2006). Evaluación Parcial de Programas Lógicos Multi-adjuntos y Aplicaciones. Proc. of Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia, CMPI’2006. Albacete (Spain), July, 10-14. pp. 712-724. University of Castilla-La Mancha. ISBN 84-689-9560-6.
G. Moreno and V. Pascual (2006). Programando con Igualdad Similar Estricta. Proc. of Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia, CMPI’2006. Albacete (Spain), July, 10-14. pp. 600-612. University of Castilla-La Mancha. ISBN 84-689-9560-6.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2006). Efficient Reductants Calculi by Using Partial Evaluation Techniques with Thresholding. Proc. of VI Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’06) Sitges , Spain . October. 21-27. pp. 275-289. Technical University of Catalonia . ISBN 84-95999-84-6.
G. Moreno and V. Pascual (2006) Formal Properties of Needed Narrowing with Similarity Relations. Proc. of VI Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’06) Sitges, Spain. October. 21-27. pp. 137-151. Technical University of Catalonia. ISBN 84-95999-84-6.
P. Julián and C. Rubio. A WAM Implementation for Flexible Query Answering. In Proc. of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ASC 2006), August 28-30, 2006, Palma de Mallorca, pp. 262-267, ACTA Press, 2006. Available: Accepted Manuscript (dvi/Postscript/pdf/bibtex).
P.Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2005) Operational/Interpretive Unfolding of Multi-adjoint Logic Programs. Proc. of V Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’05) Granada, Spain. September, 14-16. pp. 239-248. University of Granada.
G. Moreno and V. Pascual (2005) Functional-Logic Programming with Similarity. Proc. of V Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’05) Granada, Spain. September, 14-16. pp. 121-126. University of Granada.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2004) Unfolding Fuzzy Logic Programs. Proceedings of the IEEE 4th International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’04), Budapest , Hungary . August 26-28, pp. 595-600. ISBN 963 7154 29 9. Available: Abstract / PostScript /BibTeX entry.
S. González and G. Moreno, (2004) Integrated Transformation Strategies for Integrated Declarative Programs. Proc. of IV Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’04) Málaga, Spain. November, 11-12, pp. 255-258. University of Málaga (short version of the previous paper). Available: Abstract /PostScript/BibTe X entry.
P. Julián, G. Moreno and J. Penabad (2004) Unfolding-based Improvements on Fuzzy Logic Programs. Proc. of IV Jornadas sobre Programación y Lenguajes (PROLE’04) Málaga, Spain. November, 11-12. pp. 241-254. University of Málaga.Available: Abstract /PostScript/BibTeX entry.
P. Julián. Refined Definitional Trees and Prolog Implementation of Narrowing. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming, WFLP 2003, Valencia (España), Jun.12-13, pp. 117-129, 2003. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Available: dvi/Postscript/pdf / bibtex . Find here a zip file with the benchmark programs.
G. Moreno (2003) A Narrowing-based Instantiation Rule for Rewriting-based Fold/Unfold Transformations. Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol.86 (No. 3) pp 24. Elsevier Science (Amsterdam). (Extended version of a previous paper selected in WFLP 2003). Available: Abstract / PostScript /Online_article / BibTeX entry.
G. Moreno (2003) A Narrowing-based Instantiation Rule for Rewriting-based Fold/Unfold Transformations. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Functional and (Constraint) Logic Programming (WFLP’03), Valencia , Spain . June 12-13. pp. 130-143. Technical University of Valencia (DSIC). Technical Report DSIC-II/13/03. ISBN 84-96221-02-4. Available: Abstract / PostScript /BibTeX entry.
G. Moreno (2002) Automatic Optimization of Multi-Paradigm Declarative Programs. Proc. of the The 8th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA’02), Sevilla , Spain . November 12-15. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2527, pp 131-140. Springer-Verlag. Available: Abstract / PostScript /BibTeX entry.
G. Moreno (2002) Incremental Tupling in a Functional-Logic Setting. Proc. of Segundas Jornadas de Lenguajes de Programación” (PROLE’02), El Escorial, Spain. November 21-22. pp. 103-118. Technical University of Madrid . Available: Abstract /PostScript/BibTeX entry.
M. Alpuente, M. Falaschi, G. Moreno and G. Vidal. (2000) An Automatic Composition Algorithm for Functional Logic Programs. Proc. of the 27th Annual Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics (SOFSEM’2000), Milovy, Czech Republic. November 25 – December 2. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1963, pp. 89-297.Springer-Verlag. Available: PostScript/ BibTeX entry.
G. Moreno, T. Rojo and P. González (1994). Diseño e implementación de un lenguaje inmerso en una base de datos relacional. Proc. of the 4º Congreso Internacional de Nuevas Tecnologías de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba. February 21-16. IFIP. (21 pages).
G. Moreno, P. González and J.A. Gámez (1993). Parallel Algorithm for Table Division in Relational Databases. Microprocessing and Microprogramming (Euromicro’93), Barcelona, Spain. September 6-9. Technical University of Catalonia. (4 pages).
G. Moreno, J.A. Gámez and F. Cuartero (1993). BAREL: un lenguaje de manipulación de datos basado en el álgebra relacional. Proc. of the Segundas Jornadas de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Computación, Quito, Ecuador. April 12-16. National Technical University. pp 55-64.
P. Julián and C. Villamizar. Analysing Definitional Trees: Looking for Determinism. DIAB-03-12-2. pp. 18. Departamento de Informática, UCLM, Dec. 2003. (extended version of the FLOPS 2004 paper “Analysing Definitional Trees: Looking for Determinism“.). Available: dvi/Postscript/pdf / bibtex . Find here a zip file with the benchmark programs.
V. Valero, T. Rojo, G. Moreno. (1999) Estructuras de datos y de la información. UCLM.
E. Albert, M. Alpuente, M. Falaschi, P. Julián and G. Vidal. Improving Control in Functional Logic Program Specialization (extended version). II-DSIC-2/97. pp. 34. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, UPV, 1998.
M. Alpuente, M. Falaschi, P. Julián and G. Vidal. Call-by-Name Specialization of Functional Logic Programs. In Manuel M.T. Chakravarty, Yike Guo and Tetsuo Ida, editors, Proceedings of the JICSLP1996 Post-Conference Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Logic Programming, Bonn (Germany), Sept. 5-6, 1996. pp. 10. Forschungsbericht \#96-28 (research report). Fachbereich Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, 1996.
P. Julián Iranzo. Una nueva Semántica Operacional para Programas Lógico Ecuacionales. II-DSIC-25/95. pp. 34. Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación, UPV.
F. Cuartero, G. Moreno, J.A. Guerrero. (1992) Estructuras de datos. UCLM. ISBN 84-600-7813-2.
J.A. Guerrero, F. Cuartero, G. Moreno. (1992) Algorítmica. UCLM. ISBN 84-604-2271-2.
G. Moreno, J.A. Guerrero, F. Cuartero. (1992) Algoritmos y estructuras de datos: libro de prácticas. UCLM. ISBN 84-600-7814-4.