Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
Lisa H Lazarus
as of counsel
in San Francisco
from Hawkins Parnell & Young LLP.
Lazarus focuses on toxic tort and product liability litigation and represents and defends corporate clients in all aspects of complex litigation from the pleading stage through mediation, trial, and settlement.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Teresa M.L. Tate
as partner
in San Francisco
from Perkins Coie LLP.
Tate’s practice focuses on representing private and public companies in their acquisitions, dispositions, and other complex business combinations. She also represents investors and private companies in ECVC matters, spanning venture capital investments, strategic opportunities, liquidity events, and general corporate matters.
Daphne M Higgs
as Partner
in Palo Alto
from Perkins Coie LLP.
Higgs represents clients in complex technology transactions, with an emphasis on artificial intelligence, machine learning, open source, entertainment, cloud offerings, consumer products, eXtended reality, drones, and the transfer of technologies from universities. She also provides strategic IP, privacy, and data security advice on M&A and venture capital transactions.
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Christina Q. Bouchot
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Goodwin Procter LLP.
Bouchot counsels clients on their most critical employment and compliance issues, whether that means addressing founder disputes, drafting employment policies, making recommendations on the use of restrictive covenants, advising on compliance with wage-and-hour laws, or making recommendations on reductions in force. She also handles investigations and complaints involving allegations of sexual harassment, whistleblowing and discrimination. While she has experience representing companies in many industries, she has a particular focus on technology companies and private equity firms, and understands the nuances of their cultures and unique employment challenges.
Caroline E. Cherkassky
as Partner
in Santa Monica
from Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP.
Cherkassky’s practice focuses on venture financings and corporate governance matters, and the general day-to-day legal needs of startups. She has also counseled companies on M&A, securities and technology transactions matters.
Proskauer Rose LLP
Vinay Kohli
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from King & Spalding LLP.
Kohli will focus his practice on clients across the healthcare industry.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Howard M. Privette
as Partner
in Orange County
from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP..
Privette is an experienced trial lawyer and a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group whose practice focuses on securities and corporate governance litigation
Maynard Cooper & Gale
Karen T Tsui
as Associate
in Los Angeles, CA
from Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP.
Tsui is a litigator with experience in insurance coverage disputes, bad faith liability actions, and other contractual disputes. She focuses her practice on ERISA and employee benefits, including the representation of insurers in life, health, and disability litigation. Karen is an Associate in Maynard's Insurance & Financial Services Litigation Practice. She has substantial experience in all phases of civil litigation, including written and expert discovery, law and motion practice, settlement negotiations, and trial preparation.
Address
1901 Sixth Avenue North, Suite 1700 , Birmingham 35203 United States
T:
(205) 488-3627
Littler
Michelle Ann Clark
as Shareholder
in Fresno
from Gerardo Hernandez .
Clark has extensive experience in technology-focused litigation, including representing clients in cases involving patent and trade secret claims, breach of contract allegations, and unfair competition matters.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Alison R. Weinberg-Fahey
as Shareholder
in Los Angeles
from Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP.
Weinberg-Fahey focuses her practice on commercial real estate transactions. She represents and advises property owners, developers, tenants, lenders, and investors on acquisitions and dispositions, development, construction, joint ventures, secured loans, and workouts for retail, hospitality, office, aviation, and multifamily projects. She also advises clients on brokerage rules and regulations.
Musick Peeler & Garrett LLP
Dennis Huang
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Glaser Weil LLP.
Huang's practice includes estate and gift planning for domestic and international clients, charitable giving, and probate and trust administration.
Address
One Wilshire Blvd, #2000 , Los Angeles 90017 United States
T:
(213) 629-7633
F:
(213) 624-1376
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
Tina Li
as Associate
in San Francisco
from Rankin, Shuey, Ranucci, Mintz, Lampasona & Reynolds .
Li counsels clients in a variety of matters relating to medical malpractice, professional liability, general liability and personal injury defense. She has represented hospitals, doctors, general contractors, commercial property owners, and professional athletic teams in all phases of litigation.
Address
580 California Street Suite 1100 , San Francisco 94104 United States
T:
(415) 788-1900
Blank Rome LLP
Saul Breskal
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP.
Breskal represents commercial real estate investors, developers, and high-net-worth individuals in the entertainment and hospitality sectors on a range of commercial and residential real estate transactions. He has represented film studios, hotels, and casinos in connection with the purchase, finance, and construction of complex projects, including as lead counsel for Las Vegas CityCenter.
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP.
Jonathan E. Shardlow
as Partner
in Irvine, CA
from Gresham Savage.
Shardlow represents commercial real estate owners and developers in the industrial, retail, and multifamily sectors on a variety of land use issues including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance and related litigation and transactional matters. Jonathan's experience extends throughout California, with particular focus in the Inland Empire.
Address
1900 Main Street, 5th Floor , Irvine 92614-7321 USA
T:
(949) 851-5422
Nossaman
Anna C. Tang
as Co-Chair, Corporate Group
in Los Angeles
Tang will serve as co-chair of the firm's Corporate Group . Tang represents and advises emerging and established companies across a broad range of industries as transactional and general corporate counsel with respect to a wide variety of business transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements and negotiations and corporate governance.
Raja Sékaran
as Co-Chair, Healthcare Group
in San Francisco
Sékaran will serve as co-chair of the Firm's Healthcare Group. He represents healthcare delivery systems, health plans, hospitals, a major academic medical center, a county Local Health Authority, Federally Qualified Health Centers, medical groups, medical device companies, other providers, private equity investors, trade associations and California's private exchange for purchasing small group insurance.
DLA Piper
Stephen Taeusch
as Partner
in San Francisco
from Goodwin Procter LLP.
Taeusch represents employers in state and federal courts in a wide variety of employment-related matters, including wage and hour, wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, unfair business practices and retaliation claims in single plaintiff, multi-plaintiff and class action litigation.
Allen & Overy LLP
Lisa Nguyen
as Partner
in Silicon Valley
from Latham & Watkins LLP.
Nguyen represents cutting-edge technology companies in intellectual property matters, particularly in litigation against non-practicing entities.
Goodwin Procter LLP
David McFarlane
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Crowell & Moring LLP.
McFarlane advises clients on a broad range of matters under ERISA, the Internal Revenue Code, the Affordable Care Act, and other laws related to retirement, health, and welfare benefits, as well as executive compensation.
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Kenneth Gerald Parker
as Partner
in Orange County/San Francisco
from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP.
Parker represents industries, including life sciences (for example, research tools, analytical instrumentation/software, medical devices, diagnostics, biomanufacturing systems, etc.), software (encryption, predictive algorithms, AI), electronics and semiconductors, and consumer products. He prides himself on leading or working with teams to best serve clients, making complex issues understandable for clients, judges, and juries, and obtaining superior results for clients.
McManis Faulkner
Abimael (AJ) Bastida
as Partner
in San Jose, CA
Bastida represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a variety of business, criminal and employment-related disputes. He also has experience with civil rights, probate and trust litigation and white-collar matters, representing high-level executives.
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Howard M. Privette
as Partner
in Orange County
from Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP.
Privette is an experienced trial lawyer and a member of the firm's commercial litigation practice group. He focuses his practice on securities and corporate governance litigation. Drawing upon the invaluable experience gained from more than 30 years of trial experience representing national and international clients in a wide range of complex business disputes in courts throughout the United States, he develops innovative strategies for resolving the most challenging cases. His cases have involved disputes over business ownership issues, director and officer (D&O) liability, corporate governance, trade secrets, privacy and cybersecurity, False Claims Act and whistleblower issues, alleged corrupt practices (FCPA), price-fixing and market power, and alleged violations of regulations affecting the financial, technology, and life sciences industries.
Privette is also a noted thought leader in the areas of shareholder and fiduciary duty litigation and has represented dozens of clients with the defense of class actions involving claims by consumers and shareholders.
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Plaza Tower, 600 Anton Boulevard, Suite 1400 , Costa Mesa 92626-7689 United States
Freedman Taitelman LLP
Sean Hardy
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Hardy is a seasoned litigator, representing clients in multiple industries across all stages of the litigation process. As a dealmaker, Hardy has applied his litigator's knowledge to close difficult exit packages for high-level executives and talent in the entertainment industry. Hardy has a proven record of courtroom success at both the trial and appellate levels, resulting in several published opinions.
Benjamin Marsh
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Marsh is a dedicated advisor and aggressive advocate for clients engaged in high-stakes corporate, entertainment, employment, real estate, and business disputes. He has proven himself adept at quickly understanding his clients' unique concerns and implementing efficient strategies to achieve their desired objectives.
Brian Elliot Turnauer
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Turnauer is an experienced civil litigator whose practice focuses on issues related to entertainment, sports, employment and celebrity threat assessment. He works closely with the FBI and LAPD's Major Crimes, Celebrity Protection and Cyber-Crime divisions. He serves as counsel to athletes, actors, musicians, Youtubers, social media influencers and production companies. Turnauer is certified as a player agent by the National Basketball Players' Association (NBPA).
Miles Cooley
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Cooley serves as counsel to a variety of entertainers and celebrities, entertainment and media entities, major multi-national, mid-size and start-up businesses in various industries in both dispute resolution matters and in commercial transactions. Cooley has earned a reputation for being a resolution-oriented, practical problem-solver and has a record of winning solutions both in and out of the courtroom.
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Freedman + Taitelman, LLP is a litigation law firm located in Century City, which opened in 1997.
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP
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300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 2700 , Los Angeles 90071
T:
(415) 472-7100
F:
(415) 421-7105
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP
David C. Leimbach
as Partner
in Emeryville
Leimbach's practice focuses on complex litigation, with an emphasis on employment and consumer protection class actions. He has successfully litigated numerous novel legal issues in trial and appellate courts, both procedural and substantive, including a series of class actions that led to the nationwide elimination of on-call scheduling policies in the retail industry.
Ryan Hicks
as Partner
in Houston
Hicks has practiced civil litigation since 1998 and has represented a variety of clients in products liability, negligence, commercial, and breach of fiduciary cases against corporate and individual clients including ATV manufacturers, airlines, premises owners, banks, investment firms, public utilities, and insurance companies.
Nathan B. Piller
as Partner
in Emeryville
Piller is an experienced litigator focusing on complex civil litigation in the areas of employment and consumer law. He has litigated numerous class and collective action cases, including Julian, et al. v. Swift Transportation, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:16-CV-00576-ROS (D. Ariz.) (represented trainee truck drivers in a nationwide wage-and-hour collective action against the largest trucking company in United States and achieved a $14,000,000 settlement); and Shaw, et al. v. AMN Services, LLC, et al., Case No. 3:16-cv-02816-JCS (N.D. Cal.) (represented traveling nurses in a wage-and-hour class action against a large healthcare staffing company and multibillion dollar hospital system, and achieved a $20,000,000 settlement).
Amy Eskin
as Partner
in Emeryville
Eskin has more than 30 years of trial experience in personal injury, products liability and complex pharmaceutical and medical device cases to the firm. She was elected into the American Board of Trial Advocates, has been honored as a top attorney of Northern California by San Francisco Magazine, and received the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Civil Justice Award among other honors.
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Miller Barondess, LLP
Molly C. Stephens
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.
Stephens has 20 years of experience litigating complex commercial cases, including disputes involving investment contracts and funds, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, structured finance, and securities law. Representing plaintiffs, Stephens has achieved settlements and verdicts worth tens of millions to tens of billions of dollars. Representing defendants, she has obtained settlements before the plaintiffs ever filed a lawsuit, dismissals with prejudice at the pleading stage, and summary judgment disposing of all claims. Stephens continues to develop practice areas related to new industries and financial practices, including cryptocurrency, esports, and special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs).
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1999 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1000 , Los Angeles 90067
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Elkins Kalt Weintraub Reuben Gartside LLP
Leanne O. Vanecek
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Vanecek's practice encompasses all aspects of business litigation across a wide spectrum of industries, including health care, energy, technology, education, and entertainment.
Sally K. Saab
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Saab counsels businesses and individuals on a broad range of federal, state and local tax law topics.
Eli S. Diller
as Of Counsel
in Los Angeles
Diller provides comprehensive representation in connection with all aspects of real estate transactions and ventures. His practice is primarily focused on office, retail and industrial leasing, representing both landlords and tenants of all sizes and sophistication levels.
Justin S. Glincher
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Glincher represents clients in a variety of commercial real estate matters throughout the United States. His work includes the acquisition, disposition, development and financing of commercial properties.
Higgs Fletcher & Mack LLP
Kimberly M. Keen
as Associate
in San Diego
from Butler Law PC.
Keen will be a part of the firm's Family Law practice group.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore
James "Jeb" Brown
as Senior Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Riverside County Counsel.
Brown's practice specializes in civil litigation, and personal injury and construction defect matters.
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Paul Navarro
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Perkins Coie LLP.
Navarro represents start-ups, emerging growth companies, and investors in a variety of corporate and technology transactions covering all stages of the ECVC life cycle, with a focus on Latin America.
Ropes & Gray LLP
Bianca Levin-Soler
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
Levin-Soler represents private equity firms and their portfolio companies in a variety of transactions, including leveraged buyouts, public and private mergers and acquisitions, SPACs and restructurings.
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Colin G Conklin
as Partner
in San Francisco
from Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP.
Conklin's practice focuses on public and private offerings of securities for issuers and underwriters, SEC reporting, corporate governance and general corporate counseling of emerging growth technology and life sciences companies.
Latham & Watkins LLP
Marjan Vaseghi
as Partner
in Menlo Park
from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Vaseghi advises clients on all aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits matters in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and capital markets transactions. She also represents companies, board compensation committees, and senior executives with respect to executive compensation matters.