Brian Horne as Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Horne has taken over as Office Managing Partner in charge of the firm's Los Angeles office. Horne's cases involve a variety of industries, and he has won trials involving a wide range of disputes, including patent, trade secret, trademark, trade dress, and breach of contract.

Dr. Andrew N. Merickel as Office Managing Partner in San Francisco

Dr. Merickel's practice focuses on helping clients build and leverage their patent portfolio and navigate the patent landscape in their technology area. Working primarily in patent prosecution, licensing, due diligence, freedom to operate, opinions and challenges to third party patents, he has clients in a wide variety of technology areas, including biotechnology, integrated circuit fabrication, thin film deposition, agriculture and food technology.

Alex Baghdassarian in Los Angeles from Peckar & Abramson, P.C..

Baghdassarian focuses his practice on construction contract administration, development agreements, and claims and litigation, including construction defects and delays, and claims involving defaults and terminations. He handles binding arbitrations, and jury and bench trials in Federal and State Court, and represents clients in Northern and Southern California.

Brian Russell as Counsel in Napa from Palmaz Companies.

Russell's practice areas include business, real estate, land use, CEQA, water rights and natural resources, trademark and municipal law. He has advised clients on contract negotiation, real estate acquisitions, alcohol beverage licensing, drafting purchase agreements, entity formation, and securing land use entitlements in Napa and Sonoma Counties.

Ann S. Lee as Partner in Los Angeles from Hamburg, Karic, Edwards & Martin LLP.

Lee has more than 20 years of experience in business and real estate litigation, helping clients across industries resolve disputes, assess risks, and achieve their desired outcomes. In 2015, her interest in the significant ways technology was changing business led her to obtain a CIPP/US privacy certification.

Gregg A. Martin as Partner in Los Angeles from Hamburg, Karic, Edwards & Martin LLP.

Martin primarily represents businesses in the real estate industry, handling jury and non-jury trials, mediations, arbitrations, and appeals. His clients, mostly based in Southern California, are owners and operators of commercial retail spaces, office, and industrial properties. He also has experience with residential income property disputes, as well as disagreements between single family homeowners.

Barry G. Edwards as Partner in Los Angeles from Hamburg, Karic, Edwards & Martin LLP.

Edwards practice focuses his practice on commercial retail leasing. Over the past 30 years, he has reviewed and negotiated thousands of leases for owners and operators of shopping centers and commercial properties in California, Arizona, and Nevada.

Sabrina A. Larson as Partner in San Francisco from Morrison & Foerster LLP.

Larson's practice focuses on trademark and copyright clearance, prosecution, and enforcement, as well as complex litigation, with an emphasis on intellectual property and commercial litigation. She represents clients in domestic and international trademark clearance, prosecution, and enforcement, including in proceedings before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and federal court.

Allison Moser as Partner in San Francisco from Curley, Hurtgen & Johnsrud LLP.

Moser partners with clients on challenging workplace issues, including internal harassment and discrimination complaints, termination and discipline decisions, wage and hour disputes, reasonable accommodation issues, managing leaves of absence, and protection of proprietary information. She also negotiates and prepares employment-related agreements, drafts and updates employment policies and manuals, and conducts training seminars on employment law compliance.

Marc Indeglia as Partner in Los Angeles from Indeglia PC.

Indeglia's practice focuses on securities, financings, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate representation. He has represented public and private companies and financial institutions such as broker-dealers, investment banks, venture capitalists, private investment funds, and family offices.

Caroline Cao as Partner in Sacramento and San Francisco from Oceanwide Center.

Cao's practice focuses on managing securities and corporate finance, cross-border transactions, and real estate matters. She works with clients of all sizes across several industries. She is fluent in Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese and has considerable experience assisting China-based companies with compliance, investments, financing, international licensing, and joint ventures.

Ashley N. Kim as Associate in San Francisco from Rankin, Shuey, Ranucci, Mintz, Lampasona & Reynolds .

Kim is a litigation associate whose practice areas include professional liability, employment law, medical malpractice, and construction defect cases.

Lisa Von Eschen as Partner in Los Angeles from The Maloney Firm, APC .

Von Eschen's practice includes advising companies and executives on employment contracts, commission and bonus plans, restrictive covenants, trade secret and confidentiality issues, and severance agreements. She routinely drafts and audits personnel policies and handbooks, leads internal investigations, and conducts preventive training sessions on harassment and other employment topics.

Victoria Torres Gallardo as Associate in San Diego from Teisa, S.A. de C.V..

Gallardo's practice focuses on cross-border, business and real estate transactions, as well as estate planning matters. She has extensive experience in Mexican corporate, business, M&A, joint venture and real estate transactions, operations and investments, including regulatory matters.

Sean Patterson as Special Counsel in San Francisco

Patterson's practice focuses in the area of complex litigation, including toxic tort and general liability claims. He also represents and defends public agencies in state and federal court, judicial officers and state officials in civil rights actions involving allegations of violation of constitutionally protected rights.

Steven J. Sweeney as Special Counsel in Los Angeles

Sweeney concentrates his practice in M&A, bank and financial institution regulatory matters, technology law, corporate finance, corporate governance, technology law, bank regulatory matters, and loan and credit transactions. He has extensive experience in a broad range of corporate transactions, with a focus on banking and financial institutions.

Paige H. Gosney as Senior Counsel in Irvine from Gresham Savage Nolan & Tilden.

Gosney represents industrial, commercial, and residential landowners and developers in a variety of land use and transactional matters and in all aspects of litigation before state and federal courts. These matters include the Subdivision Map Act, CEQA, and Coastal Act compliance, eminent domain and inverse condemnation, water rights, development entitlements, due diligence, the Outdoor Advertising Act, and general planning and zoning laws.

Emil Petrossian as Partner in Los Angeles from Manatt.

Petrossian's practice entails all facets of complex commercial litigation in federal and state courts and arbitral forums. In addition to being co-resident in Glaser Weil's headquarters in Los Angeles, Petrossian is spearheading the firm's newly formed San Diego office.

Judge Frederick L. Link in San Diego from San Diego County Superior Court.

Link is available as a mediator, arbitrator and private judge for matters statewide. He brings more than 50 years of combined legal experience, including the past four decades as a San Diego County judge. He has presided over a variety of criminal and civil matters, including personal injury, wrongful death, business/commercial, employment, professional and medical negligence, and real estate.

Jack Morse as Attorney in Los Angeles/Berkeley from the Orange County Office of Independent Review .

Morse focuses on conducting impartial workplace investigations. With deep experience investigating law enforcement, he is also available for police monitoring and to do investigations involving police practices. He is based in Los Angeles.

Ann Maas as Partner in San Diego

Maas is a real estate attorney whose carefully honed her skills at peak efficiency to work in getting deals drafted, negotiated, and signed while maintaining a keen awareness of her client's needs and business goals.

Seth A. Garrett as Partner in San Diego, CA

Garrett is a real estate transactional attorney in the firm's San Diego office who provides counsel to commercial and industrial real estate developers, business owners and investors on a wide range of matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, planning and development, construction, and property management of real property.

Alexander J. Doherty as Partner in San Francisco

Doherty is a litigation attorney in the firm's San Francisco office with a special focus on appeals and water law-related litigation. He has successfully advocated on behalf of clients in various industries, including the financial services, healthcare, and publishing industries.

Jonathan D. Consani as Partner in Irvine, CA

Consani is a real estate transactional attorney in the firm's Orange County Office, whose practice focuses on purchase and sales and leasing for various types of commercial property.

Amanda D. Donson as Partner in Irvine, CA

Donson is a real estate transactional attorney in the firm's Orange County office, representing a wide variety of clients including developers, homebuilders, private investors, institutional investors, and global technology companies in their acquisition, disposition, development and leasing of industrial, retail, office, and multifamily assets throughout the United States.

Shannon I. Snell as Partner in Los Angeles, CA

Snell is a real estate transactional attorney in the firm's Century City office, structures, negotiates, and executes sophisticated commercial real estate transactions for office, retail, multifamily, mixed-use, and industrial properties. In recent years, she has represented developers, private equity firms, and institutional owners and investors in the acquisition and disposition of more than $3 billion of real estate, and leasing of millions of square feet of space, across the United States.

Morgan L. Medlin as Partner in Irvine, CA

Medlin is a real estate transactional attorney in the firm's Orange County office, providing counsel on acquisitions and dispositions, and leasing of industrial, retail, mixed-use, office, and residential properties across the United States. Morgan often represents clients on challenging, environmentally impacted projects.

Jared C. Kassan as Partner in Los Angeles, CA

Kassan is a member of the firm's Tax and Joint Ventures department in the firm's Los Angeles office. He counsels individuals and companies on tax-related planning and structuring matters often involving issues related to partnership tax, 1031 exchange issues, California property tax, and local real estate transfer tax.

James Sargent as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

Sargent provides sophisticated legal counsel to guide corporate and individual clients through a wide range of high stakes commercial and business disputes.

Jennifer DePalma as Partner in San Francisco from Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP.

DePalma represents technology companies at all stages of growth in transactions and general corporate matters. Her experience includes the negotiation of mergers and acquisitions, strategic alliances, and financing, as well as counseling boards on corporate governance matters. She serves as primary outside counsel to private and public companies and handles alternative investments for clients in the private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital space.

Alex Flumenbaum as Partner in Los Angeles

Flumenbaum's practice concentrates on the legal aspects of sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. He represents institutional and non-institutional clients in a wide variety of real estate transactional matters, including real property purchases and sales, retail and commercial leasing, and mortgage financings, refinancings and restructurings.

Rachel A. Simon as Partner in Orange County from Rutan & Tucker, LLP.

Simon, a corporate and securities partner, provides comprehensive legal counsel to her clients on a global stage. In addition to mergers and acquisitions, tax structuring, financing, and general corporate matters, Simon has built trusting relationships with clients and often acts as go-to outside counsel for them.

Peggy Hosking as Shareholder in Los Angeles from Best Best & Krieger LLP.

Hosking serves as outside general counsel to her clients focusing on their commercial real estate transactions. She represents owners, developers, borrowers, lenders and investors in the acquisitions, disposition, development, finance, leasing, and management of real estate for their retail, commercial, industrial, residential, and office use needs. Further, she has extensive experience counseling clients in all areas of business, from formation through succession.

Caroline Djang as Shareholder in Orange County from Best Best & Krieger LLP.

Djang counsels her clients on the best strategies for pursuing and collecting debts and provides realistic solutions for recovery. Her notable work includes representation of one of the largest creditors in the chapter 11 case of a recycling company and representation of an internationally known luxury brand with respect to creditors’ rights. She also represents several prominent landlords, banks, and cities with respect to creditors’ rights and claims in bankruptcy.

Heather D. Bennett as Partner in Los Angeles and Nashville from Law Offices of Heather Bennett.

Bennett's practice focuses on intellectual property matters including copyright, trademark, trade secret, and right of publicity from creation and acquisition to licensing and litigation. With over a decade of experience in entertainment, art, media, and technology in the U.S. and abroad, Heather's client relationships go beyond negotiating deals and handling judicial matters.

Lee D. Oida as Associate in Los Angeles

Oida's passion for family law and domestic violence advocacy developed while interning for the Battered Women's Justice Project, and then later representing families at the Family Justice Litigation Clinic.

Ashwin Gokhale as Partner in San Francisco from Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

Gokhale regularly negotiates and advises technology companies on a range of intellectual property licensing and other commercial transactions, including agreements for software and hardware development and licensing, manufacturing and distribution, advertising and marketing, patent licensing, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital investments.

Nathaniel P. Gallon as Partner in Silicon Valley from Hogan Lovells LLP.

Gallon counsels clients on corporate and securities law and also acts more generally as a trusted business advisor in connection with a wide range of transactions that technology companies typically undertake throughout their life cycle - entity formation, debt and equity financings, recapitalizations, joint ventures, spin-offs, and growth stage through to a liquidity event.

Dominic Chaklos as Partner in Los Angeles

Chaklos represents a wide variety of talent in the music and entertainment industry. He advises clients on all aspects of their careers and helps them make informed decisions regarding business development and brand management.

Lindsay Arrington as Partner in Los Angeles

Arrington specializes in matters relating to electronic music, endorsements, and independent labels. She negotiates all varieties of agreements relating to the music business, as well as endorsement and social media agreements for influencers, entrepreneurs and professionals across the entertainment industry.

Mariah Comer as Partner in Los Angeles

Comer’s practice focuses on a wide range of transactional entertainment and intellectual property matters relating to both the music industry and brand endorsements.

Kristen Wenning as Partner in Los Angeles

Wenning's practice focuses on advocacy and legislative change in favor of creators. Soon after joining LaPolt Law, Kristin found herself immersed in the final revisions and eventual historical passing of the Orrin G. Hatch--Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act, a huge win under U.S. Copyright Law for songwriters and artists!

Tom Dean as Partner in Los Angeles

Dean focuses his practice on talent representation and represents, advises and counsels numerous recording artists, content creators, producers, and songwriters in all aspects of their entertainment careers. With over 15 years of experience in the music and entertainment industry.

John F. Simonis as Partner in Los Angeles from Paul Hastings LLP.

Simonis represents investors, owners, developers, and operators in complex real estate transactions and development matters, and has substantial experience in real estate joint ventures, funds, purchases and sales, leasing, financings, development and construction, with particular depth of experience in data centers and technology-related facilities.

Daniel J. Hagedorn as Partner in Los Angeles from Paul Hastings LLP.

Hagedorn practices in all areas of commercial real estate transactions, including joint ventures and the acquisition and disposition of commercial projects, including multifamily and affordable housing projects, industrial projects, retail centers, data centers, leasing, and real estate financings.

John R. Bamford as Shareholder in Westlake Village

Bamford has successfully defended numerous complex business litigation cases, including obtaining a compl;ete defense verdict for a financial advisor alleged to have mismanaged client accounts in 2019.

Colin M. Kawaguchi as Shareholder in Westlake Village

Kawaguchi counsels emerging and established companies in the areas of corporate governance, mergers, acquisitions, financings, and general business matters. Colin has experience in various industry sectors including biotech, financial services, information technology, hospitality, and insurance.

Andrew D. Thorpe as Partner in San Francisco

Thorpe advises management teams and boards of directors on securities regulation, public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and key corporate governance matters. In addition to extensive experience representing issuers and underwriters -- including in over 40 initial public offerings to date -- he served for six years at the Securities and Exchange Commission. While at the SEC's Division of Corporation Finance and in the Office of Rulemaking, Thorpe reviewed and commented on numerous public companies' SEC filings and played a significant role in drafting several landmark regulations under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.