Scott D. Howie as Senior Counsel in Irvine from The Irvine Company.

Howie has a broad scope of transactional real estate experience, representing developers and owners of industrial, office, retail, and residential properties on acquisitions and dispositions, financing, and leasing-related matters.

Julian Zou as Partner in Palo Alto from Venable.

Zou counsels corporate clients from startups to multinational corporations on venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, both inbound into and outbound from China, finance and banking. His clients include innovative life sciences and technology entrepreneurs. He has also represented investors and portfolio companies in private equity and venture investments. As part of his cross-border Asia Pacific practice he has experience ensuring compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as Chinese anti-bribery law counseling and investigations. He is admitted to practice law in the U.S. and qualified in China.

Joshua Ritter as Partner in Los Angeles from Werksman Jackson & Quinn LLP.

Ritter is a criminal defense attorney, who handles complex cases that garner media attention. Before moving into private practice, Ritter was a Los Angeles County prosecutor for nearly 10 years with a 90% conviction rate. In 2015, he was awarded Outstanding Prosecutor of the Year by the Association of Deputy District Attorneys. Ritter hosts the True Crime Daily: Sidebar Podcast and has been interviewed by top media outlets including the New York Times, the LA Times, CBS2 Los Angeles and KTLA5 News.

Kevin Dale Rising as Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Rising has practiced at the firm since 2011. One of the original six founding members of the firm's Los Angeles office, he will oversee the office's strategic growth and management. He succeeds David Allen, who will remain on the firm's Management Committee but is stepping down from office leadership to focus on client work.

Rising focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, including contractual disputes and business torts, partnership and fiduciary litigation, consumer class action defense, multidistrict litigation, product liability and torts. With an active trial practice, he has served as trial counsel for plaintiffs and defendants in numerous high-stakes jury trials, bench trials and arbitrations.

In addition to office managing partner, Rising will also continue his role as co-chair of the Consumer Class Action Defense Practice Group.

Kristen L. Chic as Counsel in Los Angeles

Chic focuses on complex business litigation, contract disputes, employment/ERISA matters, and real estate litigation. She has successfully represented some of the largest retailers worldwide, as well as title insurers, contractors, and fiduciaries in hotly disputed matters.

Amy Schuller Hitchcock as Partner in Sacramento

Hitchcock's practice focuses on internal investigations, government investigations, compliance counseling, and complex white-collar criminal defense. A former AUSA in the Eastern District of California, Hitchcock uses her experience to help clients across sectors successfully navigate, resolve, and prevent criminal matters. She also has extensive experience conducting cross-border internal investigations and compliance counseling for multinational corporations.

Samuel R Diamant as Partner in San Francisco

Diamant's practice focuses on representing companies in commercial disputes, including matters involving licensing disputes, false advertising, misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty and various other business torts. He has represented Fortune 500 and emerging companies alike in the technology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and financial services industries.

Jennifer Taylor Stewart as Partner in San Francisco

Stewart defends Fortune 100 and other large companies in a wide range of complex litigation matters, including pharmaceutical and other product liability, toxic tort and commercial cases. She also has significant deposition, motion, case management and trial experience.

Robyn C. Crowther as Regional Managing Partner in Los Angeles and San Francisco

Crowther was previously managing partner of Steptoe's Los Angeles office, a role she has had since 2019 and which she has used to grow the talent and clients in Los Angeles. She currently serves as a member of Steptoe's Executive Committee and its Lateral Committee. She is a partner in the firm's Commercial Litigation group and has been recognized repeatedly by the California Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers and Top Women Lawyers.

Pamela R. Miller as Counsel in Los Angeles and New York from self employed.

Miller's practice focuses on Television Entertainment. She has held senior-level television business and legal affairs roles at major media companies including ABC, CBS, and Discovery for dramatic and non-fiction programs, sports, and news. In those roles, she oversaw, structured, and negotiated deals for broadcast network, syndication, digital platforms and cable. Her expertise covers programming for unscripted, animation, children's programming, events, format sales, international production and distribution, and sponsorship, marketing, and promotion of events and programming. She has also advised clients on risk assessment, intellectual property matters, litigation, and employment matters.

Ben Hattem as Associate in San Francisco from Law clerk to Justice Goodwin H. Liu of the Supreme Court of California and Justice Myron H. Thompson of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. .

Hattem works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters in federal and state court.

Ginger Jackson-Gleich as Associate in San Francisco from Law clerk to Justices Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar and Joshua Groban of the California Supreme Court and to the Honorable Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. .

Jackson-Gleich works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters in federal and state court.

Arielle Tolman as Associate in San Francisco from Law Clerk to Judge William A. Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Tolman works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters with an emphasis on civil rights in federal and state court.

Jessica R. Bogo as Partner in San Francisco and Los Angeles

Bogo focuses her practice on construction law, guiding clients through all phases of the construction process, including licensing, contracting, project delivery, claims and dispute resolution. Primarily representing owners and general contractors, Bogo has represented clients in the United States and abroad, on a wide range of projects, including commercial, residential and energy projects. In addition to California, Bogo is also licensed to practice in Washington, DC.

Lee Brand as Partner in San Francisco

Brand represents technology companies and financial institutions, ranging from emerging startups to Fortune 100 businesses. His practice focuses on securities and competition, including shareholder and consumer class actions, international cartel litigation, high-stakes contract disputes, and government and internal investigations. He regularly handles matters in federal and state courts across the country, as well as in various arbitral settings.

Michael S. Horikawa as Partner in Los Angeles

Horikawa handles all aspects of patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret law, with a focus on computer technologies, consumer electronics and biomedical devices. He represents clients in both litigation and transactional matters—including IP litigation in federal courts, at the International Trade Commission and in alternative dispute resolution proceedings—and advises on IP issues in mergers and acquisitions, investments, joint developments and licenses. He also assists clients with IP aspects of their business activities, including their IP portfolios, policies and practices.

Drew Simon-Rooke as Partner in Silicon Valley

Simon-Rooke focuses on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, startups, venture capital, capital markets, public company reporting and corporate governance in the technology, financial and health care sectors. He represents public and private companies in buy-side and sell-side M&A, PIPE transactions and de-SPACs, emerging companies and venture funds in connection with financings and issuers with equity and debt offerings.

Samantha Grant as Partner in Los Angeles from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.

Grant represents employers and management in administrative, arbitration, and trial proceedings. She has handled cases involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, breach of contract, fraud, defamation, trade secret, and unfair competition cases, among others.

Lester Ang as Partner in Palo Alto

Ang represents start-up and late-stage private companies in matters ranging from incorporation and initial capitalization to venture capital, debt financing, and initial public offerings. He also represents public companies in securities offerings, M&A transactions, SEC reporting, and corporate governance matters. In addition, Ang advises investment banks, venture capital firms, and private equity firms.

Jonathan Chan as Partner in Palo Alto

Chan works in the emerging companies practice, and represents private technology companies and investors in formation, venture capital financing, and mergers and acquisitions. He focuses on representing companies and investors in the fintech, blockchain, and gaming sectors.

Broderick K. Henry as Partner in Palo Alto

Henry focuses on mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, and other strategic matters involving public and private companies. He primarily represents clients in the technology industry, but he has represented clients in a wide range of sectors, including aviation, financial services, consumer products, energy and infrastructure, security, and manufacturing.

Megan K. Kayo as Partner in San Francisco

Kayo advises clients on information security and privacy issues under various laws and regulations, specializing in data breach response and mitigation. She has worked on hundreds of security incidents and acted as the lead counsel, directing the investigation, notifications, and responses to regulators and consumers in connection with global data breaches.

David Pirko as Partner in Palo Alto

Pirko represents leading life sciences companies and venture capital investors in strategic transactional and corporate matters, including partnering and collaboration agreements, licensing agreements, services agreements, clinical trial agreements, manufacturing and supply agreements, and other complex matters. His practice extends from start-ups to public companies operating in all sectors of the life sciences industry.

Dr. Deborah M. Smith as Partner in San Diego

Dr. Smith advises companies on IP strategy beginning from early platform development through commercialization. This includes venture capital, capital markets, and M&A transactions in the fields of chemistry, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Dr. Smith specializes in advising clients that use platform technologies to bring new therapeutics to market.

Stephen B. Strain as Partner in Palo Alto

Strain is part of the firm's complex litigation and investigations group. He focuses on representing clients in government and internal investigations, including matters involving allegations of insider trading, complex financial reporting and accounting fraud, violations of the FCPA, and disclosure violations, among others. Strain also frequently represents companies, as well as their officers and directors, in securities class actions, shareholder derivative suits, and related litigation matters.

Mei Dan as Partner in Silicon Valley

Dan's practice focuses on the representation of financial and strategic clients in various acquisition transactions, including public and private mergers and acquisitions, venture capital investments and cross-border matters. She also has been involved in advising on general corporate and transactional matters.

Josh Heideman as Partner in Los Angeles

Heideman's practice focuses on renewable energy asset finance, acquisitions and the energy transition. He has represented clients in numerous renewable energy transactions in solar, wind, storage, geothermal, and biomass, with a particular emphasis on tax equity financing.

Christopher W. James as Partner in San Francisco and Los Angeles

James' principal areas of practice include anti-corruption, antitrust, securities law, shareholder derivative suits, data privacy, and corporate risk and compliance. He represents clients in state and federal court, in arbitration, and in pre-litigation matters involving the United States Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal and state agencies. He also conducts compliance risk assessments and provides counseling on internal controls, employee and third-party training, and transactional diligence.

Elise Edlin as Partner in San Francisco

Edlin focuses on complex intellectual property (IP) litigation in federal courts, the International Trade Commission (ITC), and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). She partners with a variety of clients across a range of technology areas--from technology to life sciences--including networking, semiconductors, telephony, medical devices, drug treatments, and fluorescent proteins.

Sarah E. Fowler as Partner in Palo Alto

Fowler focuses her practice on cases involving digital rights management, device authentication, streaming media, video game technology, network security, and enterprise data warehousing. She has significant trial experience and a track record of securing early victories for her clients.

Andrew T. Pettit as Partner in Palo Alto and Austin

Pettit practices in all areas of intellectual property with an emphasis on patent and trademark procurement, strategic analysis, including infringement analysis, enforcement analysis and portfolio valuation, and counseling. He has experience in drafting and prosecuting domestic and international patent applications, conducting disclosure meetings, and analyzing portfolios as due diligence for corporate transactions.

Dr. Courtney M. Prochnow as Partner in Los Angeles

Prochnow focuses her practice on biotechnology. She has represented clients in patent litigation cases in district court, and inter partes review, reexamination, and interference proceedings before the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

Andrew S Wong as Partner in Los Angeles from Dechert LLP .

Wong represents leading international and domestic companies in the financial, technology, oil and gas, food and beverage, manufacturing and transportation industries in a variety of complex commercial litigation and employment law matters. He focuses his practice on general commercial litigation, cross-border litigation and arbitration, product liability, business torts, trade secrets and unfair trade practices disputes, as well as employment discrimination matters.

J. Randall Toch as Of Counsel in San Jose

Toch's practice centers on acquisitions, financing, development, and leasing of commercial real property, property ownership disputes, lien claims, and related title insurance coverage issues. He has represented high-level real estate developers and property owners in connection with all aspects of real property development and property tax issues.

Stephen Yeh as Of Counsel in Los Angeles

Yeh represents financial institutions, corporate investors, project sponsors, developers, and corporate borrowers in connection with a wide variety of complex project financings, including tax equity investments, back-leverage financings, reserve-based financings, acquisition financings and other types of secured and unsecured financings, with particular emphasis on renewable and clean energy.

Tricia L. Greenlee as Partner in Los Angeles

Greenlee’s practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions including acquisitions and dispositions, commercial leasing, and finance transactions.

Graham M. Buccigross as Partner in San Francisco

Buccigross’ practice largely focuses on patent litigation involving high technology, but also includes medical devices and life sciences. The high technology cases frequently involve standards essential telecommunications patents, and semiconductor, light emitting diode and computer hardware and software patents.

James T. Spratt as Partner in Los Angeles from Kennedy & Souza.

Spratt has decades of experience as a senior litigator in a wide range of areas, running the gamut from professional and commercial liability to personal injury, construction-defect disputes, real-property litigation and tort defense.

Sayeh Dayen as Associate in Los Angeles from Kash Legal Group.

Dayen concentrates her practice on counseling and defending clients in a variety of civil litigation matters with a particular focus on the transportation and trucking industry. She has experience with general liability, transportation, catastrophic injuries/wrongful deaths, and premises liability matters.

John Lu as Partner in Los Angeles from Milbank LLP.

Lu’s practice focuses on patents, trade secrets, and life sciences litigation. He has represented clients in matters involving patent infringement, U.S.-China trade secret misappropriation, biosimilars, ANDA litigation, and licensing disputes. He also represents clients in connection with proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. His clients have included Genentech, Tris Pharma, Rosenberger, Natera, and Gilead.

Lauren Drake as Partner in Los Angeles from Milbank LLP.

Drake handles complex patent litigation and patent post-grant proceedings and has represented clients in connection with a broad spectrum of technologies, ranging from central nervous system stimulants to immunotherapies and monoclonal antibody medications to anti-angiogenesis drugs in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries.

Gary N. Frischling as Partner in Los Angeles from Milbank LLP.

Frischling focuses his practice on intellectual property, including both litigation and counseling. He represents a wide range of clients, from startups to large multinational corporations, in a variety of industries with a focus on the life sciences and technology sectors.

David I. Gindler as Partner in Los Angeles from Milbank LLP.

Gindler’s practice focuses on intellectual property litigation and licensing, with a strong emphasis on trials of high-stakes patent and trade secret disputes.

Sarah L. Graham as Partner in Los Angeles

Graham represents strategic and financial buyers, sellers and investors in public and private M&A, joint ventures, investments, and other business transactions, with a focus on the media and entertainment, private equity, technology, and gaming industries.

Jeremy S. Smith as Partner in Los Angeles

Smith represents clients in complex litigation and class actions in both trial and appellate courts across numerous areas of law, including privacy, consumer fraud, constitutional law, and insurance law

Benjamin Saltsman as Partner in Los Angeles

Saltsman focuses his practice on land use and real estate matters, with an emphasis on successfully obtaining land use entitlements for major real estate development projects in California.

Joseph R. Rose as Partner in San Francisco

Rose focuses his practice on high-stakes employment disputes, commercial litigation, class actions, antitrust matters, and law firm defense.

Casey J. McCracken as Partner in Orange County

McCracken focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, with particular experience in technology litigation, including patent litigation, software copyright, contract disputes, and licensing.

Daniel Landy as Partner in Los Angeles

Landy represents real estate funds, lenders, and institutional and non-institutional investors in all areas of real estate.

Angelique Kaounis as Partner in Century City

Kaounis represents clients in a range of commercial litigation, with a focus on trade secret misappropriation cases, business torts, and contract disputes.

Tiaunia Henry as Partner in Los Angeles

Henry is an experienced trial attorney who focuses primarily on complex high-stakes business litigation, including antitrust, breach of contract and transnational cases.

Taylor Hathaway-Zepeda as Partner in Los Angeles

Hathaway-Zepeda focuses her practice on public and private company mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, equity investments, restructuring transactions and general corporate governance.

Martie Kutscher Clark as Partner in Palo Alto

Clark represents Silicon Valley technology companies in all stages of litigation, with a focus on high-stakes, bet-the-company matters, including founders’ disputes, consumer class actions, data privacy actions, securities actions, and trade secret disputes.

Jaysen S. Chung as Partner in San Francisco

Chung focuses on patent and appellate litigation and has extensive experience in a diverse range of industries, including pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and virtualization technologies.

Julian Zou as Partner in Silicon Valley from Venable LLP.

Zou counsels corporate clients from startups to multinational corporations on venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, both inbound into and outbound from China, finance and banking. His clients include innovative life sciences and technology entrepreneurs. Julian has also represented investors and portfolio companies in private equity and venture investments.

Steve Casselberry as Senior Counsel in Irvine from Musick, Peeler & Garrett.

Casselberry represents clients in the financial services, real estate and title insurance industries. His financial services clients include community and regional banks, as well as mortgage bankers, brokers, lenders and investors. His legal services include mitigation, litigation, bankruptcy, foreclosure, and loan and fraud investigation matters as well as business venture formations, problem loan workouts and acquisition of loans in bulk.

Ryan W. Nolan as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Nolan's practice focuses on representing private investors and lenders in connection with preferred equity and senior and subordinate debt real estate transactions. He has experience closing various commercial real estate construction loans, loan modifications and permanent loans on behalf of both owners and lenders, including condominium regimes, mezzanine debt, revolving lines of credit and preferred equity.

Ashley N. Osak as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Osak provides innovative and strategic legal solutions that are unique to each client’s needs. Her practice regularly includes working with large health care systems, hospitals and surgery centers to identify and effectuate mergers, acquisitions, affiliations and other strategic relationships.

Brian B. Yeretzian as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Yeretzian advises financial institutions and borrowers in structuring, documenting, and securitizing commercial lending transactions; he also counsels owners, developers, and investors in all aspects of real estate transactions, including the acquisition, financing, development, leasing, monetization, and disposition of real estate assets.

Joanna Y. Chen as Shareholder in San Francisco

Chen counsels domestic and foreign clients in a wide variety of intellectual property matters, with an emphasis in electrical engineering and computer science and patent prosecution. She has represented clients in a variety of fields, including content management systems, streaming media, 3D modeling and therapeutic predictions software, 5G technology, semiconductor devices, autonomous vehicles, biomedical devices, computer technologies, 3-D dental modeling applications, bioMEMS bionsensors, text animation software, and prosthetic devices.