Kevin Benedicto as Associate in San Francisco

Benedicto was just appointed to the San Francisco Police Commission.
Benedicto is a co-leader of the firm's Mobilizing for Equality Law Enforcement Policy Working Group. He is a member of The Bar Association of San Francisco's Criminal Justice Task Force and the San Francisco Superior Court Committee on Elimination of Bias.

Nicholas (Nic) Frey as Partner in Silicon Valley from Baker Botts.

Frey focuses on executive compensation and benefits, equity plan and award design, M&A and capital markets transaction support, ERISA matters, and general public and private company compensation and benefit matters.

Francesca Grea as Partner in Los Angeles

Grea provides strategic guidance to clients in the entertainment industry, helping them identify, create and capitalize on opportunities to grow their brands, careers and businesses across multiple platforms. Focused on transactional law, she drafts and negotiates agreements that govern actors', writers', directors', producers' and other creatives' most important projects, protecting their interests and maximizing their return.

Joshua A. Edwards as Partner in Los Angeles

Edwards provides strategic guidance on a wide range of film, television and production agreements for above-the-line talent, independent producers and production companies. A former talent representative, he has significant experience at the negotiation table, complemented by a macro-level understanding of the film and television industry and in-depth knowledge of the deal terms available to above-the-line talent, producers and production companies.

Lindsay Puckett as Of Counsel in San Diego from Best Best & Krieger LLP.

Puckett represents public and private clients in transactional and litigation matters involving the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), endangered species and habitat conservation plans, land use entitlements, conservation easements, alternative energy, coastal development, water issues, and Native American tribes. She also helps her clients obtain local, state and federal permits, including those from the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Ben Au as Partner in Santa Monica from Durie Tangri LLP.

Au's practice includes complex civil litigation, representation of both plaintiffs and defendants, particularly in the areas of trade secret misappropriation, breach of contract, and funder / founder disputes through arbitration and trial. He has also conducted a number of internal investigations on behalf of corporate clients. Ben has extensive experience in SEC enforcement actions, as well as federal criminal matters ranging from fraud to FCPA to export controls.

Arnold E. Brown II as Partner in San Francisco from Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt .

Brown's practice focuses on corporate governance, commercial transactions, and complex intellectual property agreements for a large range of clients in the technology space. He represents nonprofit technology standards groups, open source software organizations, and startup technology companies in the communications, consumer electronics, semiconductor, computing, blockchain, and software industries.

David S. Kupetz as Partner in Los Angeles from SulmeyerKupetz.

Kupetz advises companies in out-of-court restructurings in a variety of industries, including entertainment, real estate, retail and technology. He ‎represents clients on all sides of bankruptcy, crafting reorganization plans on behalf ‎of debtors, representing secured and unsecured creditors and advising buyers ‎looking to purchase assets from bankruptcy estates. He has also facilitated hundreds ‎of assignments for the benefit of creditors and managed municipal debt adjustment ‎negotiations for government entities.

Tambry Lynette Bradford as Office Managing Partner in Los Angeles

Bradford represents individuals and public and private companies throughout the United States. She regularly serves as lead trial counsel for clients facing high-stakes litigation. Her practice encompasses a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters involving claims of fraud, unfair competition, due process violations, contract disputes, and products liability. She advises clients in state and federal courts throughout the country and has handled appeals in California state appellate courts and the Ninth Circuit.

Kalama M. Lui-Kwan as Office Managing Partner in San Francisco

Lui-Kwan has a national litigation practice representing parties in complex commercial disputes arising out of M&A deals. He also represents consumer-facing companies in class actions and regulatory investigations. He regularly advises fintechs and national banks on regulatory and compliance matters and counsels financial institutions on the development of new products and services with their partners in the fintech space.

Matthew S. Brady as Partner in Irvine from Clausen Miller PC .

Brady represents manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, and retailers in product liability, toxic tort, environmental and other general liability issues, including cases arising out of exposures to asbestos and other hazardous materials.

Alex Grigorians as Partner in Los Angeles from Safarian, Choi & Bolstad.

Grigorians provides counsel to local, national, and international real estate clients on commercial real estate matters, including the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, and leasing in all asset classes. Alex's expertise also includes mortgage lending, portfolio financing, as well as receivership and distressed real estate transactions.

Lauren Wood as Associate in San Diego from PWC.

Wood's practice focuses on employee benefits and compliance, investment and taw law, international finance and tax planning and controversy.

Allyson N Werner as Associate in San Diego from Sidley Austin LLP .

Werner represents individual clients and diverse businesses on a wide range of litigation and appellate matters.

Jake D. Sesti as Associate in San Diego from Grant & Kessler.

Sesti assists clients in a wide range of complex litigation disputes.

Michael W Hervey as Associate in San Diego from Children’s Legal Services.

Hervey represents a wide range of clients, including high-net worth individuals in the areas of estate and gift tax liability, tax planning, trust formation and administration.

Arsen Kourinian as Partner in Los Angeles from Perkins Coie LLP.

Kourinian provides practical and operational guidance on how to harmonize data privacy laws and standards into uniform policies, procedures and practices. He regularly helps clients with privacy policies, adtech standards and data flows, cross-border data transfers, data privacy and security due diligence assessments for mergers and acquisitions, vendor contracts, privacy by design and human resources data.

Nancy Ngyuen Sims as Partner in Los Angeles from DLA Piper.

Sims, is a commercial litigator with a focus on complex business disputes and investigations, has successfully defended dozens of class actions and handled multiple litigation matters involving an amount in controversy exceeding $100 million. She is fluent in both Vietnamese and English.

Cara Sandberg as Of Counsel in San Francisco from California Supreme Court.

Sandberg's practice focuses on complex civil litigation and internal and government investigations. She has a decade of experience advising policy makers, executives, and judicial officers on litigation strategy, cutting-edge legal issues, and policy recommendations. Sandberg also served as an attorney for Justice Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of the California Supreme Court

Patrick Haase as Shareholder in San Diego

Haase's practice focuses on estate planning, trust and probate law. He is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning, Trust & Probate Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization as well as a Certified Elder Law Attorney by the National Elder Law Foundation.

Scott Perlin as Shareholder in San Diego

Perlin represents clients in real estate development and real property disputes, as well as business, construction and general civil litigation.

Sarah Shekhter as Shareholder in San Diego

Shekhter’s practice primarily focuses on complex business matters. She is a Certified Specialist in Criminal Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization and has extensive experience representing clients in complex civil and criminal matters in both state and federal courts.

Brian R. Michael as Partner in Los Angeles from King & Spalding LLP .

Michael's global practice also focuses on providing crisis management and compliance counseling, including on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and anti-corruption; cybersecurity and data privacy; FinTech, blockchain technology, and digital currency; trade sanctions; and workplace conduct matters. He leads global risk assessments and helps to design and implement multi-jurisdictional compliance programs.

Alexander Kasendorf as Partner in Calabasas

Kasendorf's practice focuses on litigation, dispute resolution, advocacy and lobbying. He utilizes a combination of skills and talents to assist his clients in areas such as complex business transactions, commercial property issues, real estate disputes, construction and sports and entertainment matters.

Alexandre Cornelius as Partner in Calabasas

Cornelius is CEO and senior attorney at Cornelius & Kasendorf. He practices in the areas of commercial and business litigation and transactions including, but not limited to, purchase and sale of real estate, construction related disputes (including construction defects, mechanics liens and general contractor / subcontractor disputes), finance, leasing, development, entitlements, company and entity formation and structure, bankruptcy, reorganization and creditor/debtor rights and remedies.

Cameron M. Miller as Senior Associate in Los Angeles

Miller counsels clients on all aspects of insurance matters, including those involving allegations of personal injury, wrongful death, insurance defense, and construction defect. He is experienced in trial management, from intake to depositions to motions to trial preparation and settlement negotiation.

Anna Novruzyan as Of Counsel in Los Angeles

Novruzyan is a business and commercial litigator, handling cases from intake through trial, including setting strategy, trial preparation, and assisting with settlement negotiations. She has extensive experience in commercial contracts and professional liability matters in a variety of industries.

Mark M. Gnesin as Partner in Costa Mesa

Gnesin is a trial lawyer focusing on personal injury, property damage, and construction defect litigation, including all general liability claims. He also advises corporations and insurance companies on liability, insurance coverage, and indemnity matters, drawing on his extensive training and previous experience as an insurance claims representative. Gnesin takes a creative approach to cases and has obtained numerous favorable jury verdicts and settlements for his clients.

Gayland O. Hethcoat II as Counsel in Los Angeles from Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Hethcoat develops solutions for complying with the complex web of federal and state laws governing the healthcare sector, including in the emerging fields of telemedicine and digital health.

Trinity E. Taylor as Associate in San Jose

Taylor represents clients in employment disputes, real property disputes, and business cases. She has litigated cases involving claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, nuisance, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and a derivative action. As a former deputy district attorney,

Taylor was previously with Fishman Larsen & Callister in Fresno, and served as a Tulare County deputy district attorney.

Jamie Garelick as Of Counsel in Los Angeles from Ezra Brutzkus Gubner LLP.

Garelick focuses her practice on commercial real estate and corporate transactions, notably representing property owners, tenants, landlords, investors, and borrowers in connection with leases, acquisitions, and dispositions, as well as the development and financing of commercial, industrial, and retail properties.

Rebecca Beth Peterson-Fisher as Partner in Menlo Park

Peterson-Fisher will continue to litigate employment discrimination and wage and hour class and collective actions, and to represent individual employees in all areas of employment law.

Jennifer Lin Liu as Managing Partner in Menlo Park

Liu represents individuals in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law and focuses on employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, and employment contracts and agreements.

Jonathan S. Shenson as Partner in Los Angeles from Shenson Law Group .

Shenson's bankruptcy practice includes representation of debtors, secured creditors (including debtor in possession), lenders, committees, acquirers and other parties in chapter 11 cases, out-of-court restructures and work-outs, acquisitions, foreclosures, and assignments for the benefit of creditors. His practice also includes commercial and bankruptcy-related litigation including extensive experience in fraudulent transfer and preference actions and litigation in the areas of breach of contract, breach of duty, alter ego, successor liability, and lender liability.