David Korduner as Partner in Los Angeles from Fifth Season, LLC..

Korduner was previously general counsel and later associate national executive director at the Directors Guild of America, where he spent much of his career. He was a primary participant in DGA Basic Agreement negotiations and drafting, managed internal union governance, and oversaw the Credits, Membership, Reports Compliance, Research, Residuals, Signatories, Human Resources, IT, and Legal Departments, foreign levies, and the Tri-Guild Audit program. He served on the Board of Trustees of the DGA Pension & Health Plans, including eight years as co-dhair of its Legal and Delinquency Committee. Between his two stints at the DGA, Korduner spent three years as senior counsel for labor relations at ABC and Touchstone Television Productions, handling union issues across television productions and TV and radio stations, and one year as senior counsel, legal affairs at the Disney Cable Networks Group, handling production legal issues for the Disney Channel, ABC Family, and SoapNet.

Tana J. Landau as Associate in San Diego from Fleischer & Ravreby.

Landau strongly emphasizes personalized service for her clients with a hands-on approach to practicing family law.

Myra Chack Fleischer as Of Counsel in San Diego from Fleischer & Ravreby.

Fleischer has decades of experience in family law. She is on the short list of attorneys qualified to serve as a special master.

Brian T. Glennon as Partner in Los Angeles from Latham & Watkins LLP.

Glennon's practice includes securities fraud class actions, shareholder derivative lawsuits and US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) enforcement actions. He has also represented all of the major accounting firms, including Deloitte and KPMG, in auditor liability matters, including administrative proceedings and at trial. He has achieved complete defense victories at trial on claims totaling nearly $3 billion and has obtained several dismissals of multibillion-dollar securities class actions in multiple jurisdictions. He has represented clients across many industries, including financial institutions, energy, infrastructure and technology sectors.

Elaine Lee as Partner in Los Angeles from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Lee represents owners, general contractors, and design and engineering professionals in construction litigation. She has extensive experience advising and advocating for clients in significant construction projects, including public infrastructure, commercial buildings, and cultural icons. From early-stage claim development and mediation, discovery, and motion practice to evidentiary hearings and appeals, Elaine helps clients find their most advantageous position in high-stakes situations.

Jonathan Olsen as Partner in San Diego from Goodwin Procter LLP.

Olsen regularly advises large multinationals, as well as emerging companies in the technology and life sciences industries. In addition to providing strategic counseling to his clients, his practice includes M&A, venture capital financings, joint ventures, and corporate governance. He has substantial experience representing buyers and sellers in M&A transactions, as well as significant experience in cross-border transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, minority investments, and joint ventures in over 30 international jurisdictions. Olsen also regularly represents corporate venture groups in their minority investments in both U.S. and international emerging growth companies.

Barron L. Weinstein as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Weinstein & Numbers LLP.

Weinstein's practice focuses exclusively on representing policyholders in complex insurance disputes, including matters involving sexual abuse, construction defects, professional liability, property damage and business interruption, and bad faith claims. He has also lectured on insurance coverage issues in numerous continuing legal education courses and has served as a settlement officer for the San Francisco Superior Court's Mandatory Settlement program.

Kevin L. Cifarelli as Senior Attorney in Los Angeles from Weinstein & Numbers LLP. .

Cifarelli's practice focuses on litigating and supervising insurance defense claims, including professional negligence, general liability, and real estate actions. He has represented policyholders in litigation against carriers in state and federal courts. He also advises clients about litigation risk, dispute avoidance, and resolution, and he conducts settlement negotiations and represents clients at mediations.

Katherine J. Blair as Partner in Los Angeles from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

Blair is skilled in representing companies, entrepreneurs, investment banks, and investors in public and private corporate transactions. Katherine helps clients navigate the complex corporate, securities, and governance landscape so that they can successfully achieve their operational and liquidity goals. She has worked in a range of industries, including financial services, REITs (real estate investment trusts), consumer goods, technology, foreign manufacturing, and biotechnology.

Robert Becker as Shareholder in San Francisco from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP.

Becker's practice encompasses patent litigation and prosecution, including inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. He has successfully represented clients in disputes involving a wide array of technologies, such as digital transactions and banking; gaming hardware and software; optical, wired, wireless, and cellular networks; solar cells and panels; e-mail, e-commerce, and Internet business methods; facial recognition, music recognition and downloads; content encryption and copy protection; data storage, access, and synchronization; analog and digital signal processing; computer software, hardware, and peripherals; medical devices; and physics and related engineering.

Victor E. Bianchini as Neutral in San Diego from Judicate West Mediation Services.

Bianchini served for 20 years as a state court judge and served extensively as the court's settlement judge. After retiring from the San Diego County Superior Court in 2002, Bianchini began a private mediation practice. His expertise was soon recognized by the federal courts in New York, which enlisted him part-time as a settlement judge for complex civil litigation and prisoner civil rights cases. Throughout his tenure on state and federal benches and private mediation practice, he has mediated over 3,500 cases, ranging from straightforward disputes to intricate, multi-issue complex cases. His record includes numerous multi-million-dollar settlements in diverse and challenging cases, such as patent disputes and class actions. His judicial experience as a trial judge in both the federal and state systems, encompassing a wide range of civil cases, has dramatically enhanced his mediation practice in the private sector.

Saurabh Prabhakar as Counsel in San Francisco

Prabhakar's practice focuses on trade secrets, patents, antitrust and copyright matters in a wide array of technology areas. Mr. Prabhakar received his J.D. with high honors from George Washington University Law School in 2014 and his B.E. with distinction from Birla Institute of Technology in 2001. He is admitted to the California Bar and District of Columbia Bar.

Alan M. Witlen as Partner in Los Angeles

Witlen's practice focuses on tax matters involving corporations, partnerships, tax-exempt organizations, individuals, and the income tax aspects of intra-family wealth transfers, including related tax compliance and reporting. He advises U.S. and cross-border clients in tax planning for various entities' purchase, sale and restructuring. He counsels investors on the tax aspects of US inbound and outbound opportunities, including investments in real estate. He also represents successful families and individuals looking to move to or from the US or within the US across state lines. Coordinating with advisors worldwide, he helps clients manage their multi-jurisdictional investments and tax interests.

Georgina Wakefield as Counsel in Los Angeles from Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California.

Wakefield served as the trial unit chief at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, where, in addition to handling her own trial cases, she oversaw the work of over 30 federal public defenders. She is experienced in handling a variety of fraud cases, including wire fraud, bank fraud, tax fraud, mail fraud, health care fraud and securities fraud, as well as public corruption and bribery offenses, violations of import and export laws, and other regulatory offenses. She has achieved complete acquittals in more than half of the cases she has tried to a jury or judge and secured dismissals in over 50 cases after pre-trial negotiations and/or litigation. She has also prevailed in and argued before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Jason A. Gersting as Partner in Orange Country from Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP.

Gersting focuses his practice on strategic management of intellectual property portfolios within the life science, biotechnology and medtech sectors. His experience encompasses a wide range of services such as patent and trademark prosecution, intellectual property due diligence, negotiating licensing and other agreements, infringement and validity matters, as well as the counseling of clients regarding their intellectual property assets in view of their near- and long-term business goals.

Joseph L. McGeady as Partner in San Diego

McGeady's practice includes representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of commercial litigation matters. Joe has experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, including drafting and arguing pre-trial motions, taking and defending depositions, and direct and cross-examining witnesses.

Scott Perlin as Partner in San Diego

Perlin represents clients primarily in matters of real estate development and other real property disputes, business litigation, construction law, and general civil litigation.

Paige H. Gosney as Partner in Orange County

Gosney's practice includes representing clients in both transactional matters and in all aspects of litigation before state and federal courts, including issues involving due diligence, land use, and development entitlements, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and Coastal Act compliance, eminent domain, and inverse condemnation, water rights, the Outdoor Advertising Act, and general planning and zoning laws.

Melissa K. Bell as Partner in Los Angeles

Bell defends employers in matters involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hours, and whistleblower claims. Additionally, she represents employers in investigations brought by various government agencies, including the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the California Civil Rights Department (formerly the Department of Fair Employment and Housing).

Stephanie S. Roberts as Partner in Los Angeles

Roberts is a real estate litigator whose experience encompasses every real estate-related dispute, including disputes concerning financing projects, construction defects, easement disputes, taxation disputes, disputes between commercial landlords and tenants, and buyers and sellers of real estate. She also has extensive experience litigating complex business disputes and employment matters.

Jennifer C. Shakouri as Partner in Century City

Shakouri handles complex real estate and business disputes for a broad array of clients, including property developers and owners, purchasers, sellers, investors, high-net-worth individuals and families, lenders, brokers, telecommunications companies, and other leading industry players. She has extensive experience litigating high-stakes matters. Her expertise includes partnership disputes, contract disputes, disputes relating to the purchase and sale of property, easement and encroachment disputes, failure to disclose actions, insurance disputes, and landlord-tenant disputes.

Robert G. Marasco as Neutral in San Diego from Marasco Mediation, LLC..

Marasco is an experienced dispute resolution professional with over 20 years of experience as a litigator, having tried criminal and civil cases in private practice and government service as an assistant U.S. attorney. As a litigator in private practice, Marasco was a partner at two national law firms -- Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP and Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP -- representing plaintiffs and defendants. While at Procopio, he was the chair of the Healthcare Practice Group, focusing on health care advice, counseling, and defending civil and criminal government investigations. He also served as vice president and chief compliance officer for Color Health, Inc., a healthcare company focused on cancer detection and management programs.

Adam S. Cashman as Partner in San Francisco from Singer Cashman LLP.

Cashman represents plaintiffs and defendants in matters involving trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights. He also represents his clients in commercial matters involving contracts, fiduciary duties, partnership and licensing disputes, fraud and malfeasance, structured financing transactions, and insolvency matters. His diverse client base includes Fortune 100 companies, innovative startups, investment funds, prominent individuals, and family and legacy businesses.

Jackson D. McNeil as Partner in Los Angeles

McNeil represents clients in various land use and environmental matters, including obtaining approvals and entitlements, assisting with post-approval compliance, and engaging in land use and environmental litigation. McNeil has extensive experience representing clients before various administrative bodies and regulatory agencies. Before Elkins Kalt, Jackson worked at a boutique land use firm in Santa Monica and as in-house counsel at one of the nation's largest utility companies.

Sean A. McCormick as Partner in Los Angeles

McCormick is litigation counsel to clients in numerous industries, including real estate, private equity, retail, hospitality, securities, energy, and entertainment. His clients range from private individuals to Fortune 500 companies. He has broad experience litigating cases from initiation through trial in state and federal courts around the country and in private arbitration. He also prides himself on helping clients resolve legal issues before they ripen into litigation.

Steven C. Gove as Partner in Los Angeles

Gove represents clients on a wide range of real estate transactional matters, including drafting and negotiating purchase and sale agreements, lease agreements across all major commercial property types, joint venture agreements, and loan and closing documentation for financings and re-financings. Drawing on his prior experience as a tax associate, solo practitioner, and in-house general counsel, Gove often functions as a de facto outside general counsel to his clients and advises them on general corporate, tax, and trademark matters, in addition to their real estate transactional needs. Gove's clients include real estate developers and property owners, start-ups, small businesses, high net-worth individuals, and tax-exempt organizations.

Shant A. Karnikian as Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Karnikian has served as trial counsel alongside the firm's lead trial attorney, Brian Kabateck, on six jury trials, all resulting in favorable verdicts for their clients. As an active member of the legal community, Karnikian is on the Board of Governors of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, Consumer Attorneys of California, and the Executive Committee of Los Angeles County Bar Association's Litigation Section.

Emma Tavmasyan as Special Counsel in Los Angeles from The Hartford.

Tavmasyan dedicates her practice to counseling and defending employers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators in complex workers' compensation matters throughout California. She has extensive experience managing all phases of litigation, ranging from evaluating claims and developing case strategy to analyzing medical records, deposing claimants and physicians, preparing motions and petitions, and handling hearings and trials.

Tyler J. Donaghy as Associate in San Diego from Hoffman & Forde .

Donaghy represents clients in complex litigation involving breach of contract, fraud, real estate non-disclosure, construction defect, commissions, and business disputes. His experience includes representing clients in various court proceedings, depositions, mediations, and negotiations, and managing complicated cases from beginning to end. In addition, Donaghy advises clients in pre-litigation situations, including purchase and sale agreements for residential and commercial property and the acquisition and dissolution of large and small businesses.

Jason T. Kandah as Associate in San Diego from ML Law, APC.

Kandah's practice focuses on a broad range of complex litigation in state and federal courts, including appeals. He brings significant litigation experience and prior expertise in the financial sector to HFM's Trusts & Estates practice. Before beginning his legal career, Kandah spent over a decade in the banking industry, including serving as Vice President for JP Morgan Chase & Company.

Glen K. Lim as Partner in Los Angeles from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

Lim's practice focuses on representing direct lenders, banks, and other lending institutions, as well as private equity firms and operating companies, in financing transactions. This includes financing of mergers and acquisitions, debtor-in-possession and exit financing, first and second-line financing, and working capital and asset-based financing.

Brian S. Stern as Partner in Los Angeles from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

Stern's practice focuses on representing borrowers (including portfolio companies), issuers, agents, and lenders in structuring and documenting secured and unsecured financing transactions, including direct lending, cash flow, asset-based, mezzanine, bridge, bankruptcy (including DIP and exit facilities), and subscription line financing transactions.

Daniel C. Tola as Partner in Los Angeles from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.

Tola has extensive experience representing lenders and borrowers in various industry sectors, including health care, information technology, software, telecommunications, franchises, restaurants, casinos, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and consumer lending. He represents alternative lenders, commercial banks, investment banks, finance companies, equity groups, hedge funds, and private companies in US and cross-border working capital facilities (cash flow and asset-based), acquisition financings, subscription line financings, and other leveraged finance transactions including leveraged buyouts, restructurings, and recapitalization.

George H. Irwin as Partner in Walnut Creek from DeHay & Elliston LLP.

Irwin focuses his practice on complex products liability litigation, real estate litigation, chemical and toxic exposure cases, and business tort actions.

Mark Mazzarella as Of Counsel in San Diego from Mazzarella Law.

Mazzarella leverages over four decades of legal experience, including nearly 100 trials, to assist parties in resolving conflicts through mediation and arbitration. Throughout his career, he has participated in hundreds of mediations and arbitrations, resulting in verdicts and settlements totaling over $330 million and the successful defense of more the $2 billion in claims.

Keith Fujiu as Partner in Los Angeles from Paul Hastings .

Fujiu's practice focuses on representing lending institutions in the leveraged finance market across several key products, including working capital, acquisition, and structured financings, primarily on the lender side and across multiple sectors with particular expertise in asset-based financings. His work involves split-lien, super-priority revolvers, first and second-lien debt structures, asset-based lending, tech/software lending, cash flow lending, syndicated and direct lending, mezzanine debt, refinancings, and recapitalizations.

Khalilah A. Walters as Counsel in Los Angeles from Daniel, Medley & Kirby PC.

Walters has more than 15 years of legal experience, litigating complex matters in state and federal courts in several states and representing a variety of private, public, and nonprofit clients in commercial matters. She spent nearly 10 years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, focusing on mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring. Walters also served as in-house counsel for a California-based entertainment company.

Robert Shaia as Partner in Orange County from Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzergerald.

Shaia focuses on all types of construction-related disputes in addition to surety and real estate matters.

He has more than 20 years of experience representing project owners, general contractors, subcontractors, and other project participants on a variety of private and public projects, ranging from power plants and prison facilities to roads, high-rise developments, hotels, and residential homes. His strategic approach to handling construction disputes has led to successful outcomes in claims involving disputed change orders, scope of work disputes, terminations, differing site conditions, delays, licensing issues, design issues, defect claims, indemnity issues, pursing and defending bid protests, mechanics' liens, stop notices and payment bonds.

Shaia has extensive trial and arbitration experience, and has successfully mediated dozens of cases to resolution. He also has experience litigating before the California Courts of Appeal. His notable successes include prevailing in complex jury trials, bench trials, and arbitrations showcasing his adeptness in navigating various legal challenges.

Shane Goudey as Partner in Palo Alto from Cooley LLP.

Goudey advises domestic and international investment fund sponsors on all aspects of the formation and operation of venture capital, private equity, fund-of-funds, secondary market, debt, and a variety of other types of funds. He has formed over 1,000 funds, ranging from multibillion-dollar venture capital and leveraged buy-out funds to smaller firms forming early-stage venture capital, angel, pledge, and similar micro-funds with just several million dollars in committed capital. Goudey also regularly works with and advises accelerator and incubator firms with respect to their organizational, operational, and fund formation matters.