Kirk Hulett joined Gustafson Gluek PLLC in 2019. Kirk graduated from the University of California San Diego, where he obtained his undergraduate degree. Kirk then graduated cum laude from the University of San Diego School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the University of San Diego Law Reporter. Since 1984, Kirk has specialized in the representation of plaintiffs in securities, antitrust, employment and consumer class actions as well as representing individuals and businesses in complex litigation.
Prior to co-founding Hulett Harper Stewart LLP in 2000, Kirk was a partner in the largest national class action firm in the country. He has testified before the California Assembly Business and Professions Committee on the topic of potential regulatory and auditor liability reforms following the Enron financial collapse and participated as a panelist on several occasions. He is admitted to all of the District Courts in California, numerous other District Courts across the country by pro hac admission, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. Kirk joined Gustafson Gluek as a member in 2019.
For more information regarding Kirk and a list of his representative cases, see below.
More About Kirk
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University of San Diego Law School, J.D. (1983)
University of California San Diego, B.A. (1978)
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California State Bar
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
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Kirk Hulett has been Lead or Co-Lead counsel in dozens of class actions throughout the country, including In re American Continental Corp./Lincoln Savings & Loan Securities Litig. (D. Ariz.); In re Media Vision Technology Securities Litig. (N.D. Cal.); Home Fed, (S.D. Cal.); and Gensia Pharmaceuticals, (S.D. Cal.). Kirk was Co-Lead trial counsel for a trustee in Guy F. Atkinson Co. v. PriceWaterhouse LLP, et al. (N.D. Cal.), a liability action against PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP, and represents several bankruptcy estates in seeking recovery against officers, directors and professionals.
Kirk also successfully represented defrauded individual investors in the Abbott et al. v. Worldcom Co. (S.D.N.Y). He was Co-Lead counsel the securities class action, Enriquez v. Edward Jones & Co. L.P. (E.D. Mo.). Kirk also represented defrauded individual investors in Bachman et al. v. A.G. Edwards (Circuit Ct. of St. Louis) for breach of fiduciary duty. He represented an elderly individual in a Ponzi scheme case (Meyerhoff v.Gruttadaria, et al., (San Diego Superior Court)) against one of Wall Street’s most prominent investment banks and was successful in obtaining a full recovery for the victim. He was Co-Lead trial counsel in Pauma Band of Luiseno Mission Tribe v. Harrah’s Operating Co., et al. (San Diego Superior Court) on behalf of a San Diego area based Native American Tribe against Caesars Entertainment and Harrah’s. Mr. Hewlitt has most recently been involved in representing victims of an antitrust conspiracy among the three largest suppliers of canned tuna in the world in In Re Packaged Seafood Products Antitrust Litig. (S.D. Cal.).