Annie Guidroz joined GMSR as an associate attorney after clerking for the Honorable Brian M. Hoffstadt at the California Court of Appeal, where she gained valuable insight into how California’s appellate courts operate. Before clerking, Annie spent two years as an appellate fellow with GMSR. In that role, she gained extensive experience perfecting appeals at the pre-briefing stage and successfully briefed an appeal that resulted in a landmark published opinion on discovery abuse.
Annie graduated from Loyola Law School, where she now teaches Appellate Advocacy part-time and coaches students competing in the ABA’s National Appellate Advocacy Competition. While in law school, Annie served as an Articles Editor on the Loyola Law Review, externed for the Honorable Stephen V. Wilson in the Central District of California, interned with the Federal Public Defender’s Capital Habeas Unit, worked with Loyola’s Project for the Innocent clinic, and competed on a moot court team.
In her free time, Annie enjoys cooking, crafting, and spending time with her husband and their two dachshunds.
Higginson v. Kia Motors America, Inc. (2026) 118 Cal.App.5th 316
In a first-of-its-kind published opinion, the court held that bad-faith discovery searches for electronically stored information that result in the withholding ...
In a first-of-its-kind published opinion, the court held that bad-faith discovery searches for electronically stored information that result in the withholding of relevant documents constituted an irregularity in the proceedings requiring a new trial
When a vehicle consumer sought discovery in a lemon law case, the automaker swore that it had no responsive documents, but later admitted that it had relied on an unreasonably narrow search—running a 37-word, block-quote query of electronic materials, designed to return no results. After a defense verdict, the Court of Appeal reversed. In a first-of-its-kind published opinion, the court held that bad-faith discovery searches for electronically stored information that result in the withholding of relevant documents constituted an irregularity in the proceedings requiring a new trial, and ordered the automaker to pay the consumer’s trial and appellate costs, including attorney’s fees.
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