Kristen Blanton as Associate in Los Angeles

Blanton clerked for a law firm handling employment matters, where she focused on class action wage and hour settlements, wrongful termination claims, and discrimination lawsuits. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills, before obtaining her J.D. from Southwestern Law School with a concentration in Trial Advocacy.

Chaviante Bell as Associate in Los Angeles

Bell graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor's degree in philosophy and a minor in business administration before earning her law degree from Southwestern Law School. During her time in law school, she interned at a firm where she was tasked with drafting persuasive demand letters for general liability cases, showcasing her legal writing skills and attention to detail.

Arlen F. Printz as Associate in Los Angeles

Printz focuses his practice on general liability matters. He has a range of experience in administrative law having worked at a special education law firm analyzing Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and labor matters. He graduated magna cum laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he majored in history with a minor in Russian and earned honors and distinction for his senior year thesis. he continued on to earning his J.D. from Loyola Law School, graduating cum laude.

Kayla F. Wheeler as Associate in Los Angeles

Wheeler obtained her bachelor's degree with honors from the UCLA in African American Studies with a minor in public affairs. She earned her J.S. at Syracuse University, College of Law in New York, where she excelled academically while balancing multiple jobs and internships, including a position with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office. While in law school, she carved out time to serve as a mentor in a program that uplifts young women in developing their academic, and interpersonal skills.

Chimezie Ebiriekwe as Associate in Los Angeles

Ebiriekwe obtained his undergraduate degree in finance from San Diego State University before earning a law degree from the University of San Francisco School of Law. In law school, he received the prestigious Board of Governors Scholarship in recognition of his academic achievements. Additionally, he served as vice president of the Sports and Entertainment Law Association and a member of the Black Law Student Association.

Brian M. Schnarr as Partner in San Rafael

Schnarr is the new market leader of the firm's San Rafael office. Schnarr takes over from Brad Rogerson, who led the office from 2020. Schnarr, an integral part of Hanson Bridgett's Construction Practice Group since 2017, is a nationally recognized and award-winning trial attorney with a successful record of accomplishment in high-stakes, high-profile disputes. He has successfully represented various clients - including contractors, developers, and public entities - in complex construction disputes, contract negotiations, and risk management.

James Lee as General Counsel in Fremont from Maxar Technologies.

Lee has over two decades of experience and has held key positions at companies and law firms. Before his role at Maxar, Lee spent 15 years at Aramark, a prominent player in the food, facilities, and uniform services industry. During his tenure as deputy GC, he played a crucial role in shaping the company's legal strategy. Before joining Aramark, Lee gained valuable experience during his three-year stint as counsel at O'Melveny & Myers. This was his second time working at the firm. He kickstarted his legal career at O'Melveny in 1995, where he laid the foundation for his future success. In 2000, he transitioned to eConnections, a supply chain software start-up, where he assumed the role of GC and made significant contributions to the company's legal affairs.

Judith A. Hasko as Partner in Palo Alto from Latham & Watkins LLP.

Hasko serves as co-chair of WilmerHale's Life Sciences Practice. She counsels life sciences companies and investors on strategic, intellectual property, and technology-based commercial transactions. Along with their investors, companies in the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic product sectors depend on Hasko for guidance and execution of licensing, corporate partnerships, joint ventures, co-promotion arrangements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, asset purchases, and royalty stream transactions.

Jerri L. Johnson as Partner in Los Angeles from Acker & Whipple, APC.

Johnson has extensive experience is complemented by memberships in elite legal circles, including the Los Angeles Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), the Defense Research Institute (DRI), and the Claims and Litigation Management Alliance (CLM), among others. Johnson's impressive career began at Morgan, Wenzel & McNicholas and continued to flourish at another prestigious Los Angeles defense firm. Her clientele spans transportation sectors, various businesses, and major casualty insurance companies. Johnson is a graduate of Pepperdine Law School.

Bradley P. Childers as Partner in Los Angeles from Acker & Whipple, APC.

Childers brings a wealth of experience in litigating various tort defense matters, including product liability, transportation, professional liability, general negligence matters, and bad faith cases in federal and state courts. He has a robust background in representing insurers in first-party property loss appraisals and has argued cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His professional affiliations include the Los Angeles County Bar Association and its Litigation Committee. Childers, a graduate of Pepperdine Law School, is recognized for his diligent advocacy and strategic legal insights.

Kevin Henry Fink as Partner in Irvine from Alston & Bird.

Fink advises on high-stakes acquisition-related financings, leveraged buyouts, asset-based credit facilities, senior and subordinated credit facilities, recapitalizations, and cross-border financings. He has worked with clients across a broad range of industries, including retail, manufacturing and distribution, technology, transportation, oil and gas, and aerospace.

Kyle G. Kessler as Partner in Los Angeles from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.

Kessler draws on her in-house and outside counsel experience to advise national and international companies across industries on transactional and regulatory compliance, focusing on privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection. A certified privacy professional with a marketing communications and public relations background, clients turn to her for counsel that blends practical business solutions with effective legal strategies.

Patricia Whitten as Partner in Los Angeles from Loeb & Loeb LLP.

Whitten focuses her practice on a wide range of commercial lending and banking transactions, including senior secured and unsecured lending, art financing transactions, securities-based lending and hedge fund transactions.

Kristin Bacchus as Partner in Los Angeles from Loeb & Loeb LLP.

Bacchus focuses her practice on complex domestic and cross-border financing transactions. She has extensive experience representing financial institutions in connection with loans to private equity sponsors and principals, corporate entities, investment vehicles and high-net-worth individuals.

Paul W.A. Severin as Partner in Los Angeles from Loeb & Loeb LLP.

Severin is a financial services attorney with a national practice focusing on commercial finance, general corporate, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and securities matters. He is based in the firm's Los Angeles office. A major portion of his practice consists of the representation of financial institutions in secured and unsecured lending and finance transactions, including securities-based facilities, private equity fund finance transactions, such as co-investment facilities and other net asset value-based (NAV) credit facilities, capital call facilities and managing company fee secured facilities, derivatives, hedge fund transactions.

Brian C. Wheeler as Partner in San Francisco from SoftBank Investment Advisers.

Wheeler is a seasoned strategic advisor with decades of experience providing legal and business guidance to clients across a wide variety of industries. Both his work in private practice and his in-house career have given him an extensive background in M&A --particularly cross-border M&A -- transactions involving venture-backed companies in the technology and life sciences sectors, growth equity, private equity, and fund structuring.

Raza Rasheed as Counsel in Los Angeles

Rasheed represents clients in a wide range of complex civil matters in state and federal courts and private arbitrations, with a particular focus on shareholder derivative suits, securities class actions and trade secret misappropriation actions.

Yingchaun (Grace) Mo as Counsel in Palo Alto

Mo represents public and private companies in a wide range of U.S. and cross-border corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and minority investments. She also advises companies on securities law compliance, shareholder activism and corporate governance matters.

Mark I. Lim as Shareholder in Los Angeles

Lim has consistently demonstrated his commitment to justice and advocacy for our clients. This promotion reflects his outstanding contributions to the firm and the legal community at large. Lim is a formidable force in the legal industry. His impressive record of accomplishment and dedication to his clients have earned him a distinguished reputation among his peers.

Paul Chander as Associate in Los Angeles from Baker McKenzie.

Chander is a trial and appellate attorney who represents clients in complex commercial litigation. He has experience handling a broad range of complex disputes for both plaintiffs and defendants, including breach of contract, securities litigation, unfair competition, business fraud, antitrust, false advertising, consumer protection, class actions, and trade secrets.

Ryan Alexander as Principal in Los Angeles

Alexander's practice covers a broad range of business and financial matters, including automotive, oilfield services, health care, life sciences, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. He represents publicly traded companies, privately held companies, private equity funds, partnerships and professional service firms in many aspects of their business including, capital raising, acquisition, product distribution, technology licensing, strategic partnerships, joint ventures and international trade. Alexander also advises private equity funds in their formation, fundraising efforts, regulatory compliance and investment and divestment transactions.

Ryan Porte as shareholder

Porte’s practice focuses on counseling and defending employers in class and representative actions, as well as single plaintiff employment disputes. Prior to law school, Porte served as an Officer in the United States Army. He earned his J.D., with honors, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, his M.A. from the University of Oklahoma, and his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Kevin Piercy as shareholder

Piercy is an experienced litigator, including significant experience in class and representative actions. Prior to law school, Piercy served as a Human Intelligence Collector (Interrogator) in the United States Army. He earned his J.D. from the University of Southern California and his B.A., magna cum laude, from California State University, Fresno.

James Miller as office managing shareholder

With a legal career spanning 25 years, Miller is an experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on employment litigation, including class and representative actions and traditional labor. Miller has particular experience in the agricultural and dairy industry, including both the grower/farmer side and farm labor contracting defense. Miller is a Fresno native and has practiced there for nearly his entire legal career. He earned his J.D. from the University of San Diego School of Law and his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego.

David Hochman as Partner in Century City from Wolf, Rifkin, Shapiro, Schulman & Rabkin, LLP.

Hochman's practice focuses on intellectual property issues, entertainment licensing and general business matters. His experience includes counseling companies, start-up businesses and individuals in connection with a broad range of transactional and litigation matters.

John Bostic as Partner in Palo Alto from U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California .

Bostic's practice focuses on responding to government investigations and prosecutions, conducting internal investigations, litigating complex civil matters, and leading trial teams in matters before juries, judges, and arbitrators.

Joshua E. Anderson as Partner in Los Angeles from Sidley Austin.

Anderson is the business litigation group's West Coast class action team leader. He is a Los Angeles-based lead attorney with 25 years of experience and has developed a reputation for compressing the defense of class actions, mass torts, product liability, and other complex, multiparty litigation in California and nationwide. With a passion for providing clients with creative solutions to complicated legal issues, Josh has deep experience resolving disputes in ERISA and the insurance, financial services, life sciences, and pharmaceutical sectors.

Kris K. Spiro as Partner in San Francisco from Clausen Miller P.C..

Sprio's practice is focused in the area of insurance coverage. Her has rendered many coverage opinions involving standard and manuscript primary, excess and umbrella policies including general liability, personal and advertising injury, construction defect and professional liability policies.

Erik J. Carlson as Partner in Los Angeles from BakerHostetler.

Carlson focuses his practice on patent jury trials involving complex technologies such as spinal surgery systems and other medical devices, natural language processing and machine learning, telecommunications, cryptography, and cloud computing.

Bernard G. Skomal as Neutral in San Diego from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

Skomal will serve as an arbitrator, mediator, special master/referee, and neutral evaluator, handling business/commercial, civil rights, class action, employment, insurance, intellectual property, personal injury, and privacy cases.

Judge Robert P. Dahlquist as Neutral in San Diego from San Diego County Superior Court.

Dahlquist served 20 years on the San Diego County court, 14 as a Civil Independent Calendar judge, handling all manner of civil cases, including business, employment, insurance coverage and bad faith, and personal injury matters. He also spent three years in a trial department, handling trials of all types, including probate, family and civil trials, and another three years as a Family Independent Calendar judge. During his judicial tenure, Dahlquist was the supervising judge of the North County Courthouse and a member of the Superior Court's Executive Committee. Prior to his bench appointment, he was in private practice for more than 20 years, where he litigated a wide variety of civil matters in federal and state courts.

Heewon Lee as Associate in Los Angeles from Larson LLP.

Lee concentrates her practice on a wide range of litigation matters. She has experience representing clients in federal, state, and administrative courts in matters involving business transactions, fraud, securities, tax, bankruptcy, government investigations, and labor and employment actions.

Andrew McClelland as Of Counsel in Pleasanton from Lunski & Stimpert.

McClelland's practice focuses on civil litigation, specifically commercial, real estate, and construction litigation. He represents business and property owners to protect their interests and assets in business, real estate, and construction disputes.

Steven J. Davidson as Associate in San Jose from Clapp Moroney Vucinic Beeman and Scheley.

Davidson's practice focuses on real estate disputes and litigation. He represents individuals, families, trusts, real estate professionals, insurers, municipalities, and businesses.

Young Seok Koo as Partner in Los Angeles from Ladas & Parry LLP.

Koo is a registered patent attorney experienced in all aspects of patent law. His practice focuses on U.S. and foreign patent prosecution, opinion work, due diligence studies, and client counseling. He has counseled clients of various sizes on infringement, invalidity, and pre-litigation strategies and has been involved in numerous intellectual property dispute cases. He also advises clients in trademark and trade secret law.

Andrew Thomases as Partner in San Mateo from Ropes & Grey .

Thomases is a nationally recognized, first-chair trial lawyer with 30 years of experience litigating complex patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property cases in federal courts throughout the country, as well as before the International Trade Commission ("ITC") and the Patent and Trademark Appeal Board ("PTAB"). He has achieved numerous successes for companies in the fields of computer technology, semiconductors, analog circuits, wireless technology, video streaming, medical devices, and many others.

Brent M. Douglas as Partner in San Diego from Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP.

Primarily focusing his practice on wage-and-hour class actions, partnership disputes, and employment claims, Douglas services clients with statewide compliance advice and litigation defense. Additionally, he frequently drafts and negotiates stock option plans and stock grants, as well as senior, subordinated, and mezzanine debt arrangements.

Douglas is actively involved in the community. He serves as a board member for the New Children's Museum and the San Diego Century Club/Farmers Insurance Open. Douglas is also a member of the State Bar of California and the San Diego Bar Association, and he previously served as president of the San Diego County Bar Foundation.