Negin Taleb as Managing Attorney in San Diego

Taleb specializes in employment law cases, including those involving discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.

Andrew Martin Klimenko as Partner in San Francisco from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith.

Klimenko is a member of the Product & General Liability, Commercial Litigation, and Trial practice groups. He has successfully defended and prosecuted a broad spectrum of matters including commercial claims, breach of contract, catastrophic personal injury and wrongful death, real estate, and professional error and omissions liability claims. He has completed more than 55 jury trials to verdict, as well as numerous binding arbitrations. Klimenko is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates ("ABOTA"). He is also a certified mediator.

Monica Bachner as Neutral in Los Angeles from Los Angeles County Superior Court.

Appointed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2002, Bachner served on the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench for more than 20 years, presiding over a variety of cases, including commercial, employment and real property matters. Throughout her judicial tenure, Bachner served on numerous court committees, including chairing the Judicial Education Seminars Governing Committee, a group charged with creating judicial education policy and facilitating educational seminars. Bachner is affiliated with the Los Angeles office and available statewide as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge.

Travis Robert Eagan as Partner in Costa Mesa

Eagan handles a variety of cases, including automotive products liability and personal injury. In his tenure, Eagan has litigated cases against nearly every automotive manufacturer in the world and has been involved in nationwide class actions. Among his notable victories is a defamation case that resulted in a substantial trial verdict. In the upcoming year, Eagan is scheduled to take on litigation involving car manufacturers such as FCA, Nissan, Kia, Hyundai, Lexus, and Toyota.

Rachel A. Baker as Senior Associate in Irvine from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.

Baker specializes in general liability and business law matters. She is a registered patent attorney licensed to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Nina Golshan as Associate in Pasadena

Golshan is an associate in the firm's business practice group. She has a background in complex corporate and commercial financing transactions as well as private investment fund formation and structuring. She has experience representing financial institutions and public and private companies in a broad range of industries, including software, energy, healthcare, and retail.

Geoffrey Biegler as Partner in San Diego from Fish & Richardson LLP.

Biegler is a seasoned life sciences litigator with a particular focus on pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, including Hatch-Waxman cases, Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act (BPCIA) cases, competitor pharmaceutical and biotechnology cases, and life sciences-related post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).

W. Chad Shear as Partner in San Diego from Fish & Richardson LLP.

Shear represents pharmaceutical companies in high-stakes patent litigation in the U.S. and abroad. He is known globally for successfully protecting the intellectual property rights and assets of his clients in make-or-break disputes that determine returns on multibillion-dollar investments and decades of research.

Justin Thompson as General Counsel in Los Angeles from Nixon Peabody LLP.

In private practice for more than 25 years at several of the nation's most prestigious law firms, Thompson has represented many of the industry's leading developers, investors and property owners. During his career, Thompson has been involved in a wide variety of transactions including acquisitions/dispositions, financings, development, leasing, loan restructurings, land exchanges, sale-leasebacks, and joint ventures, across all property types.

Adam C. Abrahms as Partner in Century City from Epstein Becker & Green .

Abrahms provides employers with sophisticated counsel on strategic labor-management relations in both organized and nonunion operations. He guides employers through collective bargaining and other complex labor negotiations and counsels on matters related to union organizing, representation/decertification elections, corporate campaigns, unfair labor practices, and union contract administration and management.

Paul Fraidenburgh as Partner in San Diego from Buchalter.

Fraidenburgh has tried to conclusion numerous high-stakes business disputes. He has prevailed on behalf of clients in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and at the state Supreme Court level. Paul represents clients ranging from government agencies to Fortune 100 companies across a wide range of industries, including technology, aviation, real estate, energy, sports, and entertainment.

Jayni F. Hein as Of Counsel in San Francisco from White House Council on Environmental Quality.

During her tenure at CEQ, she oversaw the Biden Administration's ambitious environmental and clean energy agenda, leading work on low-carbon projects and climate disclosure and advancing the successful implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (2021) and Inflation Reduction Act (2022). She has extensive experience advising clients on NEPA, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act issues, as well as energy development on public lands. As the former senior political appointee spearheading work to revise NEPA regulations and issue guidance on climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, she offers clients first-hand experience with infrastructure projects that require federal and state permits and authorization. She helps clients identify new funding opportunities and successfully advance clean energy and other infrastructure projects, including onshore and offshore wind, solar, hydrogen, transmission, semiconductor, and carbon, capture, sequestration, and utilization (CCUS) projects.

Bryn E. Jedlic as Of Counsel in Walnut Creek from Viceroy Hotel Group.

Jedlic is in the Land Use Department at Miller Starr Regalia, focusing on land use matters. He led the real estate team at Mubadala Real Estate and Infrastructure, overseeing the development of more than three million square feet of retail, residential, hospitality, and office projects on Al Maryah Island in Abu Dhabi, UAE, while also leading Mubadala's international real estate investments and partnerships.

Susan Leader as Partner in Century City from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

Leader litigates and tries cases in high-stakes commercial matters and class actions in federal and state courts. She has chaired more than a dozen trials, arbitrations, and international arbitrations and has represented clients in a variety of industries, including entertainment and media, hospitality, funds, and renewable energy sectors. Ms. Leader's broad base of experience includes handling a wide variety of commercial litigation matters, employment disputes, product liability disputes, franchise law violations, False Claims Act, and RICO and Sherman Act violations.

Kenneth Deutsch as Partner in Century City from Lathan & Watkins LLP.

Deutsch is global co-chair of the Entertainment and Media practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm's Century City office. He represents a broad array of operating entities in the entertainment and media industries, including film and television studios, streaming platforms, and independent media companies, advising on their most significant corporate transactions as well as on a variety of film, television, and other commercial ventures.

Matthew D. Umhofer as Managing Partner in Los Angeles

A recipient of the California Lawyer of the Year Award, Umhofer has thrived in handling challenging matters, helping clients navigate rough waters, and finding creative ways to solve complicated legal problems. He took on the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles--and compelled the city and the county to commit $3.5 billion in services, shelter, and housing subject to five years of federal court enforcement as well as defending Planned Parenthood affiliates and employees from False Claims Act cases and violent assaults.

Elizabeth Mitchell as Partner in Los Angeles

Mitchell has litigated thousands of cases in multiple jurisdictions. Her practice focuses on complex civil litigation, spanning a wide range of substantive areas, including constitutional, commercial disputes, trade secret allegations, the False Claims Act, and legal malpractice. She pioneered a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against the City and County of Los Angeles, demanding beds, services, and treatment for thousands of homeless individuals and clean and safe streets for the community. The lawsuit prompted swift and dynamic action by the Federal Court during the COVID-19 crisis, which ultimately resulted in a $4 billion commitment for an additional 20,000 beds with services and treatment for homeless Angelenos by the City and County of Los Angeles and commitment to encampment reduction.

J. Anthony King as Partner in Los Angeles

King has been a complex civil and employment trial lawyer in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration forums, for more than 19 years on both coasts and has been privileged to represent Fortune 500 companies and their individual officers, executives of Southern California community colleges and school districts, and a variety of other companies, large and small, in numerous high-stakes cases.

Dolly K. Hansen as Partner in Los Angeles

Hansen is an experienced attorney whose practice includes both complex, large-scale civil litigation and a wide range of criminal defense matters. Hansen represented clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to individual pro bono clients.

Diane H. Bang as Counsel in Los Angeles

Bang litigates complex civil and criminal cases at both the state and federal levels and has been named a 2019 and 2020 California Rising Star by Super Lawyers Magazine. She has experience in a range of matters, including fraud, breach of contract, shareholder derivative claims, 1983 claims, and internal investigations. She also has defended executives and businesses against criminal charges, including wire fraud, healthcare fraud, and securities fraud.

Adam Snyder as Senior Associate in Los Angeles

Snyder litigates complex civil and criminal cases with a focus on securities, cryptocurrency, financial services, and white-collar defense. He has experience in a wide range of matters, including fraud, breach of contract, RICO commercial bribery, trade secret misappropriation, and internal investigations.

Jonas P. Mann as Senior Associate in Los Angeles

Mann is a seasoned attorney with over 15 years of complex litigation experience.

Su Da as Counsel in Palo Alto

Da advises public and private clients on a variety of internal and third-party transactions, including domestic and cross-border acquisition, disposition, and restructuring transactions, debt and equity financings, initial public offerings, and international planning.

Anoush D. Sarkissian as Counsel in Los Angeles

Sarkissian represents clients in a range of complex real estate matters. Her practice includes portfolio and single-asset acquisitions, dispositions of various classes of real estate assets, joint ventures, financings, developments and leases. Her clients include institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms, lenders, borrowers, buyers, sellers, landlords, tenants and developers. She also has been involved in various alternative energy transactions involving wind and solar farms, and the development and financing of transmission facilities.

Hillary A. Hamilton as Counsel in Los Angeles

Hamilton represents a wide variety of clients in commercial litigation disputes in federal and state courts across the nation. She has extensive experience in complex litigation matters, particularly in consumer class actions.

Christopher P. Hammond as Counsel in Palo Alto

Hammond represents public and private clients in complex strategic transactions and corporate governance matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and restructurings, as well as situations involving challenges to corporate control.

Joe Binder as Partner in San Francisco

Binder's practice focuses on advising sponsors of private investment funds across a range of strategies, including venture capital, growth equity, buyouts, and secondaries. His experience includes acting for clients such as Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, HarbourVest Partners, Crescent Capital Group, Stone Point Capital, Morgan Stanley, and One Rock Capital.

Rachel Donnelly as Partner in San Diego

Donnelly represents clients in state and federal courts. She has over a decade of legal experience representing clients in civil cases ranging from personal injury to labor and employment matters and is currently a member of the firm's Complex Trial Team. She has successfully achieved superior results for her clients through dispositive motions and settlement negotiations.

Erick Dimalanta as Partner in San Francisco

Dimalanta focuses on construction disputes, business litigation, premises liability, property damage, subrogation claims and professional liability matters. Dimalanta is a veteran litigator with extensive experience in all aspects of complex civil litigation. He has resolved hundreds of lawsuits and pre-litigation disputes through motion, settlement or decision.

Derek Earley as Partner in Orange County

Earley focuses on the defense of personal injury, general commercial liability, professional liability and business litigation matters. He has achieved favorable results for his clients during all phases of pre-trial litigation, including complex discovery matters and motion practice, depositions, dispositive motions and alternative dispute resolution.

Julie Fritsch Earley as Partner in Los Angeles

Earley's practice focuses primarily on catastrophic personal injury. She has extensive experience litigating cases in both federal and state courts, representing clients in areas including general negligence, personal injury, trucking, product liability, employment, and healthcare. She has experience handling all phases of litigation, including jury trials and arbitrations. She has also drafted and argued numerous successful dispositive motions, including several motions for summary judgment. Additionally, Earley drafted the appellate papers for an opinion discussing arbitration agreements for nursing home residents.

Kelley Harman as Partner in Los Angeles

Harman has extensive litigation experience, including investigation, discovery, motion practice, mediation, and trial. She has co-chaired several personal injury jury trials as a defense attorney, receiving several defense verdicts. Her experience also includes representing government entities. Prior to joining Tyson & Mendes, Ms. Harman was in-house counsel to a large public agency in Los Angeles, where she handled all the agency’s litigation as both plaintiff and defendant, involving construction, contracts, and injury matters. Her practice focuses on general tort claims, including large catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death claims, premises liability, and product liability actions.

Darrell Nguyen as Partner in San Francisco

Nguyen's practice focuses on complex multi-party construction litigation, real estate litigation, professional liability, landlord-tenant and habitability, personal injury, and general liability litigation. He has over 20 years of experience in civil litigation and has successfully handled hundreds of cases from inception through all phases of litigation, including trial, arbitration, and settlement.

Sarah Estephan as Associate in Orange County from Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete LLP.

Estephan focuses her practice on assisting clients with creating data privacy and cybersecurity policies and procedures, as well as with implementing corporate compliance and privacy programs. In addition, Estephan regularly provides fully managed incident response services to clients of all sizes and in all sectors, including the facilitation of digital forensic investigations and determinations regarding legal breach notification obligations.

Leslie A. Horwitz as Associate in Orange County from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP.

Horwitz concentrates her practice on a wide range of labor relations and employment law matters.

Alex G. Romain as Partner in Los Angeles from Milbank LLP.

Romain's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation, white-collar defense, and internal investigations. He has vast experience representing individuals and corporations in matters alleging campaign finance violations, obstruction of justice, consumer fraud, bank fraud, environmental pollution, theft, and fraudulent misappropriation. He also successfully represented the Baltimore Ravens and members of their senior personnel regarding the independent investigation that was conducted by former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Additionally, he has successfully defended numerous law firms, accounting firms, and actuarial firms against claims of professional negligence and malpractice, and on conflicts issues.

Daniel A. Cody as Member in San Francisco from Jones Day.

Cody represents a diverse set of clients, such as hospitals, health systems, physicians, post-acute care entities, digital health and medical technology companies, life sciences organizations, and investors on a broad range of complex regulatory, compliance, privacy, and transactional matters. He assists clients in navigating evolving federal and state laws and regulations regarding pricing and reimbursement, licensing and accreditation, state corporate practice of medicine, privacy and consent, federal and state anti-kickback statutes, and federal and state self-referral provisions. He additionally oversees regulatory due diligence in mergers, acquisitions, and other transactional matters.

Marc H. Axelbaum as Member in San Francisco from Partner Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Axelbaum is a highly skilled litigator who handles a wide range of cases involving criminal and civil litigation, sensitive investigations, and disputes related to trusts and estates for affluent individuals. He has now become part of our team in San Francisco, where he takes on important cases for clients across various industries such as renewable energy, life sciences, health care, technology, financial services, real estate, and construction. Marc's clientele includes both US and international companies, executives, public officials, and individuals.

Bret H. Hunter as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Bret Hunter Family Law & Mediation.

Hunter has significant experience representing high-profile and high-net-worth individuals in family law, custody, domestic violence, and paternity cases. He has served as lead counsel in over a hundred long and short cause trials, orders to show cause, procedural and discovery motions, and requests for order in both the family law and civil departments of the Superior Court of California. He is also a well-respected mediator in high-net-worth and high-conflict divorce cases and has served as an expert witness on California family law topics in other jurisdictions.

David Downing as Partner in Los Angeles

Downing specializes in the defense of complex workers' compensation matters, having litigated cases from file inception through trial and appeal, focusing on quick and cost efficient resolution.

Corinne Spencer as Partner in Los Angeles

Spencer's practice encompasses single-party discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination cases, most often arising out of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), wage-and-hour class actions, and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) Representative Actions. She has defended numerous clients across all industries including food service, healthcare, sporting goods, and entertainment. In addition to conducting independent investigations of workplace misconduct, she has extensive experience drafting law and motion, responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, and arguing substantive and dispositive motions. She also zealously advocates for employers and management in mediations, arbitrations, trial and appellate courts.

James P. Kousoulas as Partner in Los Angeles from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.

Kousoulas counsels banks, private equity firms, private lenders, debt funds, life insurance companies, and other corporate clients on commercial lending and transactional real estate matters. He has more than 25 years of experience helping clients through a variety of complicated commercial loan transactions, including commercial mortgage-backed securities, mezzanine financings, secured and unsecured real estate and asset-based borrowing facilities, letter of credit facilities, secured and unsecured revolving lines of credit, and construction and bridge loans. His advice to clients throughout the United States often focuses on multistate transactions.

James P. Litwinovich as Partner in Los Angeles from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP.

Litwinovich represents institutional lenders in commercial real estate financing and a wide range of other financial services matters across the real estate and banking industries. Clients around the country seek his assistance with acquisition and development loans, construction and bridge loans, permanent financing, mezzanine and other subordinate financing, and other complex real estate financing transactions.

Daniel R. Paluch as attorney in Century City, Los Angeles from Miller Barondess LLP.

Paluch is an experienced litigator with a record of success representing businesses and individuals in complex litigation matters in state and federal court. His multi-faceted expertise covers torts, breach of contract cases, finance and lender liability disputes, residential and commercial real estate matters, intellectual property claims, consumer protection matters, family law, and trusts and estates controversies. He is also among the nation's most experienced Property Assessed Clean Energy ("PACE") financing litigators, having personally handled in excess of eighty PACE-related cases on behalf of PACE financing providers and their government partners.

Sonia Salinas as Partner in Los Angeles from Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo.

Salinas represents clients in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including litigation of wrongful discharge; race, gender, and disability discrimination/harassment; retaliation; wage and hour claims (including class actions and FLSA collective actions); and claims involving non-compete agreements. Salinas also provides advice and counsel to clients on employee discipline, leaves of absence, employee handbooks, and personnel policies.