Brad H. Pace as Partner in San Francisco

Pace has extensive experience handling admiralty and maritime litigation, as well as aviation litigation, and is involved in all aspects of the process from intake to resolution. His background in the maritime industry as a ship captain, officer, engineer, and pilot, enables him to deeply understand the issues his clients face and provide them with solutions tailored to their situations. He also advises clients in a wide range of insurance matters, including marine insurance and reinsurance, and insurance coverage. In addition, Pace handles a wide variety of yacht transactional work.

Heather Marie Vigil as Office Managing Shareholder in Irvine

Vigil will also maintain her litigation practice that is focused on international employment law, wage and hour matters, and privacy and data security issues. She defends employers in federal and state courts, as well as in arbitration and administrative hearings before agencies such as the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Vigil also regularly conducts employee and management training sessions and counsels small, medium-sized, and multinational employers on workplace investigations, terminations, disciplinary actions, and other issues arising under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and California Labor Code.

Erik Roper as Attorney Investigator in Sacramento from Roper O'Hara Investments, LLC.

Roper focuses on conducting fair, thorough, and impartial workplace investigations to support organizations' ability to maintain healthy, productive work environments and avoid lawsuit disruptions. His legal expertise includes handling a wide variety of employment law matters, primarily those involving claims of discrimination against protected classes, whistleblower retaliation, wrongful termination, and defamation. Before joining OIG, he counseled and represented plaintiffs in employment lawsuits, and he also spent time enforcing the federal Clean Water Act as an environmental attorney. Prior to becoming a lawyer, Roper served in the U.S. Army as a financial specialist.

Koren Bell as Partner in Los Angeles from Larson LLP.

Bell has been lead counsel in some of the country's most complex and highly publicized trials and appeals, including in a case she argued at the U.S. Supreme Court. In courtrooms across the country, she has handled high stakes matters for prominent clients across a range of industries in a variety of areas, from business disputes to product liability, defamation to civil rights, and all manner of white-collar crime.

Jaya K. Reddy as Attorney in Pleasanton from Johnston, Kinney & Zulaica LLP.

Reddy's practice focuses on complex financial matters, closely-held business interests, large estates, child custody, child support and spousal support disputes, and prenuptial agreements. She is a successful negotiator and trial advocate appearing in court throughout California and was named a "Northern California Super Lawyers Rising Star" in 2022.

Rudy Kim as Partner in Palo Alto from Morrison Foerster.

Kim has over 20 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes IP and technology-related litigation involving patent infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and complex commercial claims in federal district and appellate courts, in private arbitration, and before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). He has also successfully tried criminal jury cases with the San Francisco District Attorney's Office and regularly teaches Trial Advocacy classes at Stanford Law School.

Kamran Salour as Partner in Costa Mesa from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP.

Salour is co-chair of the firm's Data Privacy & Cybersecurity Practice. With more than 15 years of experience, Salour advises clients on a full range of complex privacy and cybersecurity matters. He regularly works with businesses to design proactive cybersecurity measures, create pre-incident response plans, prepare vendor contracts, and comply with applicable laws and regulations. When clients experience cyber incidents, he draws upon his extensive experience to help them successfully navigate the incident response process, including implementing response notification procedures, responding to regulatory investigations, managing state and federal litigation, as well as evaluating and modifying policies to protect against a future event.

Ernie A. Ocampo as Office Managing Partner in Century City

Ocampo's practice covers a broad range of transactional matters, including equity and debt financings, formation and corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and day-to-day legal matters. In addition to acting as outside corporate counsel for his clients, Ernie advises entertainment clients in connection with investments, joint ventures, and business launches, and advises real estate clients on acquisitions and development of renewable energy facilities and commercial properties.

Michael Fluhr as Partner in San Francisco

Fluhr counsels and defends companies in a wide variety of complex, commercial disputes. Michael focuses his practice on the financial sector, including the blockchain and digital asset space, where he advises and defends exchanges, issuers, NFT platforms and creators, and related companies.

Henry Cheng as Partner in San Francisco

Cheng focuses his practice on tax controversies and litigation as well as international tax planning and operational structuring. He has successfully represented numerous clients in all aspects of complex civil tax disputes at the federal, state and local levels.

Philipp Tsukanov as Partner in Palo Alto

Tsukanov focuses on domestic and international M&A transactions and represents strategic and private equity buyers, public and private company sellers, and stockholders. He advises clients on all aspects of the deal process, including transaction structuring, drafting and negotiating acquisition and related agreements, and post-acquisition integration planning. He represents companies across a wide range of industries, from technology and healthcare to manufacturing and banking.

Jeff Schenk as Partner in Silicon Valley from Department of Justice.

Schenk spent the last 17 years working for the Department of Justice at the intersection of regulatory and criminal enforcement. For more than 15 years, he served as a federal prosecutor and supervisory attorney in Northern California, where he led government investigations and prosecutions of a number of complex and high-profile matters. He was the lead trial lawyer in recent cases that captured international attention related to Silicon Valley startup Theranos, Inc., including the investigation of the company and the successful indictments and convictions of its two leaders, Elizabeth Holmes (Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO), and Ramesh "Sunny" Balwani (President and COO).

Art Silbergeld as Partner in Los Angeles from Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth.

Silbergeld has defended numerous employers in individual and class action lawsuits, including federal and state bench and jury trials. He regularly represents large and mid-sized corporations in these matters, and has first-chaired more than 100 employment litigations, arbitrations and NLRB trials.

Douglas K. Fransham as Associate in MPBF (Sacramento) from El Dorado County District Attorney's Office.

Fransham's practice areas include civil litigation and business law. He has experience in a wide variety of matters including securities fraud, real estate law and insurance. He has handled numerous financial crimes prosecutions from preliminary hearing through jury trial. Prior to joining the firm, he served as a deputy district attorney in El Dorado County assigned to the Special Prosecutions Unit and responsible for the Civil Asset Forfeiture case load.

Malgorzata "Gosia" A. Kulczycka as Partner in San Jose from Hickman Becker Bingham Ledesma LLP.

Kulczycka has a unique background as an inventor turned IP lawyer allows for a deep understanding of the patent process and the importance of protecting intellectual property. Her expertise covers a wide range of IP areas and technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, communication technologies, complex software, computer networks and graphics, and electronics.

Joan K. Archer as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from AGI Digital .

Archer focuses her practice on intellectual property portfolio development and litigation, as well as complex business disputes. She provides legal counsel on a wide range of issues, including global data privacy and protection, protection of intellectual property, trade secret defense and protection, noncompete agreements and litigation, internal risk management and compliance, licensing, marketing, and general corporate strategy. She has deep experience in complex technology commercial agreements and licensing, with a special focus on data privacy, as well as Canadian cross-border litigation and compliance strategies and other international issues.

Steven M. Selna as Partner in San Francisco from Selna Partners LLP.

With more than 25 years of litigation experience, Selna is focused on complex commercial litigation, product liability litigation and class actions. He has significant experience serving as national counsel on life science product liability matters and mass tort claims, and he has also defended actions brought by state attorneys general, alleging violation of unfair trade practice act statutes and consumer fraud.

David Crawford as Partner in San Diego from Cooley LLP.

Crawford focuses on providing legal counsel on a wide array of real estate transactions in the U.S. and globally, including joint ventures, financing, development, construction, project finance, clean energy, leasing and regulatory issues (including licensing, RESPA, and fair housing); as he puts it, "anything connected to dirt, sticks and bricks." He represents individuals, startups and public companies in multiple industries including life sciences, tech, clean energy, aerospace, consumer products, hospitality, beverage, and retail, as well as portfolio companies and venture capitalists. His projects include leasing, development, construction, acquisition and dispositions of headquarters offices, manufacturing facilities, R&D labs, agricultural production facilities, hotels, distilleries and wineries, mixed-use developments and various other facilities. He facilitates real estate financing for both borrowers and lenders, including portfolio lending, construction loans, term facilities, re-financings and synthetic leases, as well as transactions with mixed collateral. He also negotiates feedstock, off-take, EPC and other agreements related to the development and financing of clean energy and manufacturing facilities.

Zi C. Lin as Counsel in Los Angeles from Garrett & Tully APC.

Lin advises and defends clients in a variety of sophisticated business matters. He has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation and significant trial and arbitration experience in state, federal courts, and bankruptcy courts. With a focus on real estate and title insurance issues, He has obtained favorable results for clients in a broad range of high-exposure cases.

Kimia Kojouri as Associate in San Diego from Morgan Tidalgo Sukhodrev & Azzolino LLP.

Kojouri handles all aspects of family law and has considerable experience representing clients in high-conflict cases. She held an externship at the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Office, and also garnered experience working at the Family Law Facilitator’s Office at the Santa Clara County Family Justice Center prior to working in private practice.

Jennifer Griffin as Associate in San Diego from Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Juskie LLP.

Griffin’s litigation experience includes defending businesses, professionals and individuals involved in civil and commercial litigation. Her work has also included contract drafting and counseling clients on regulatory compliance and risk management. She is licensed to practice law in both California and Hawaii.

Joe Yelda as Associate in San Diego from Hawkins Parnell & Young, LLP.

Yelda has represented clients in insurance coverage disputes and uninsured/underinsured motorists claims with a focus on transportation and rideshare companies. He held law clerk positions with both the California Innocence Project and Liberty Mutual Insurance.

Laura K. Lin as Partner in Palo Alto from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP.

Lin's practice focuses on a wide variety of complex commercial litigation, including securities litigation and insurance dispute matters, among others. Currently Co-Chair of the American Bar Association's Ethics & Professionalism Committee, she also counsels clients in connection with matters arising from alleged breaches of fiduciary duties and other professional liability issues.

Peter Squeri as Attorney in San Francisco from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.

Squeri specializes in complex civil litigation in state and federal courts. He has substantial experience representing companies and individuals in high-stakes commercial disputes, product liability actions, sensitive investigations, and employment matters, including wage-and-hour, retaliation, wrongful termination, and independent contractor misclassification litigation. His practice includes contract disputes, business torts, founders' and partnership disputes, employee mobility, trade secret misappropriation, anti-SLAPP litigation, and matters involving alleged fraud, privacy, unfair competition, constitutional law, and civil rights.

Michael B. Garfinkel as Partner in Los Angeles from DLA Piper.

Garfinkel represents studios, production companies, talent agencies, advertising agencies, and artists in matters involving intricate industry-specific agreements, trademark, copyright and right of publicity disputes, trade secrets, and defamation. He also represents a variety of clients in commercial litigation, including limited liability company and partnership disputes and consumer class action defense.

Drake A. Mirsch as Associate in Orange County from Ogletree Deakins.

Mirsch is a litigation associate whose practice focuses on all aspects of employment law. Drake regularly represents employers in all phases of litigation, including pre-litigation negotiations, dispositive motions, and appeals. He also advises clients in multiple industries on a broad range of employment issues, employment practices and policies, and responding to administrative charges.

Jens Koepke as Counsel in Los Angeles

Koepke is a certified appellate specialist with more than three decades of experience representing large and small companies, individuals, and public entities in high-stakes appeals. He is the former chair of the Appellate Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association and has been inducted into the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers.