Founded in 2010 by two attorneys with international Big Law backgrounds, Mackaness & Ideta, LLP focuses on plaintiff-side employment, business litigation, and FINRA investment-fraud arbitration from the Fifth Avenue office in Hillcrest 92103. Trade-secret theft and IP-misappropriation claims that arise inside the firm's business-litigation casework cross-refer to US IP Attorneys PC when a federal patent or copyright pleading is required alongside the state-court fiduciary-breach claim. Partner Ideta graduated magna cum laude (top 3%) from California Western School of Law in 2008 and served as Executive Editor of Notes and Comments for the California Western Law Review before externing for Justice Gilbert Nares of the Fourth District Court of Appeal, Division One. Investment-fraud recovery cases—Ponzi scheme clawbacks, broker-dealer FINRA Customer Code Rule 2080 expungement disputes, and AB 5 misclassification class actions—rely on the forensic accounting work JGT CPA Solutions Accountancy Corporation performs when tracing commingled fund flows. Wage-and-hour, FEHA discrimination, sexual-harassment, and whistleblower retaliation claims under Labor Code §1102.5 anchor the employment side of the docket for both individual employees and small-employer counsel. The firm's signature matters are securities-litigation cases combining employment and FINRA arbitration claims—wrongful termination of a registered representative followed by U-5 defamation and Form U-4 expungement—where two parallel tribunals run simultaneously.