Marcus G. Larson makes the well-crafted advocacy of the client’s position his absolute priority in delivering comprehensive and highly personalized business litigation services. Whether in the heat of trial or merely in the early stages of a dispute, Mr. Larson guides his clients in choosing the right battles, and he employs the necessary command of the big picture to accomplish their goals. The proof is in the results. Over 25 years with the GGB Business Litigation Team, Mr. Larson has accumulated a lengthy track record of trial wins, successful negotiations, and satisfied clients.
Mr. Larson’s areas of practice include all facets of business, real estate, contract, unfair competition, corporate, partnership, employment, business torts, trademark, copyright, intellectual property, and trade secret disputes, as well as various business and technology issues. He further specializes in crafting smart resolutions to complex business problems, vigorously pursuing not only the legal interests of the client, but their business and financial interests as well.
Mr. Larson has enjoyed a successful litigation practice in his home state of California with Grant Genovese & Baratta since February 1, 2000. In that time, he has emerged as a team leader, and continues to win for his clients, driving repeated victories whether at trial, arbitration, law and motion, on appeal, or through negotiated resolutions.
Honors & Memberships
Trial Advocacy Honors
Tulane Journal of International & Comparative Law
International Law Society (president; vice president)
Tulane Technology & Intellectual Property Society and Journal (founding executive board member)
Tulane-Cardozo Certificate In International Studies
Tulane Certificate of European Legal Practice
Publications
Marcus G. Larson, Applying Uniform Sales Law to International Software Transactions, 5 Tulane J. Int’l & Comp. L. 445 (1997)
Trials
Voit v. Malliet, OCSC Case No. 00652567 [prevailing defense and attorney’s fee awards on contract and tort claims in ownership dispute over real estate company]
CORONA SUMMIT, LLC v. SPUSO5 etc. et. al., LASC Case No. BC410168 [securing eight-figure contract award to plaintiff]
Development Specialists, Inc v. Broadway et.al., OCSC Case No. 05CC04985 [full defense decision on seven-figure fraudulent conveyance claim]
Stockdale Town Center Investors, Ltd vs. The State Teachers Retirement Board Of Ohio, KCSC Case No. S-1500-CV-251816 [securing plaintiff’s development rights in retail shopping center and prevailing party attorney’s fee award]
Appellate Cases
G Companies Mgmt., LLC v. LREP Arizona, LLC, 88 Cal. App. 5th 342, 346, 304 Cal. Rptr. 3d 651, 653 (2023), review denied (May 17, 2023)
Voit v. Malliet, No. G058435, 2021 WL 2430788, (Cal. Ct. App. June 15, 2021)
Morehead v. Granados; Robert C. Warren III, No. G057825, 2021 WL 4539743, (Cal. Ct. App. Oct. 5, 2021)
Goldstein v. Kirby, No. G045165, 2012 WL 3188676, (Cal. Ct. App. Aug. 7, 2012)
BAR Admissions
California
Pennsylvania
Practices
Education
JD, Tulane University School of Law
cum laude
BA, Pepperdine University
cum laude
Industries
Languages Spoken
English