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2014


Sep. 10, 2014

Top 100

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In This Issue:

Eric M. George

Browne George Ross LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: business, intellectual property, entertainment, Indian law, contracts

Thomas V. Girardi

Girardi Keese | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: Plaintiff personal injury, product liability, mass torts, class actions

Gregory P. Stone

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: antitrust, class actions, patent

Paul R. Kiesel

Kiesel Law LLP | Beverly Hills | Practice Type: civil litigation | Specialties: personal injury, class action, environmental, toxic tort litigation

Karen P. Hewitt

Jones Day | San Diego | Practice Type: criminal investigations, civil litigation | Specialties: corporate criminal investigations, U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, False Claims Act

Elizabeth Pipkin

McManis Faulkner | San Jose | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: civil rights and commercial disputes

Elwood Lui

Jones Day | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: appeals, construction

John W. Keker

Keker & Van Nest LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: white-collar criminal defense, business, intellectual property, antitrust

Brian S. Kabateck

Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: class action, personal injury, insurance bad faith

Kamala Harris

State of California Department of Justice | Attorney General | San Francisco

Sarah P. Payne

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: capital markets, mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, intellectual property & technology transactions

Ronald L. Olson

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: corporate counseling

Jeffrey L. Fisher

Jeffrey L. Fisher | Stanford Law School | Palo Alto | Specialties: constitutional law, criminal procedure

Joseph W. Cotchett

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP | Burlingame | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: antitrust, consumer protection, securities fraud

Richard E. Climan

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Redwood Shores | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: mergers & acquisitions, health care & life sciences, technology

Judy C. Clarke

Clarke & Rice APC | San Diego | Practice type: Litigation | Specialties: Complex criminal litigation, federal capital defense and white collar defense

Nanci L. Clarence

Clarence Dyer & Cohen LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: white-collar defense, internal investigations

Elliot R. Peters

Keker & Van Nest LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: litigation | Specialties: white-collar criminal defense, professional liability

Mark Holscher

Kirkland & Ellis LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: complex commercial disputes & white collar defense

Joseph M. Yaffe

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: executive compensation/benefits | Specialty: senior executive/entrepreneur, public company representations

Leon W. Weidman

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District | Chief of Civil Division | Los Angeles

Elizabeth J. Cabraser

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein | San Francisco | Practice type: litigation | Specialties: class actions, mass torts

Michael A. Woronoff

Proskauer Rose LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: private equity, mergers/acquisitions, capital markets

Mark P. Robinson Jr.

Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis Inc. | Newport Beach | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: products liability

Daniel Petrocelli

O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specilaties: business, entrtainment, media

Morgan Chu

Irell & Manella LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: litigation | Specialties: intellectual property, antitrust, patent, copyright, trademark

Shawn Holley

Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP | Santa Monica | Practice Type: Criminal defense | Specialty: entertainment

Dale J. Goldsmith

Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Real estate, litigation | Specialties: land use, real estate, and administrative matters

Richard Capelouto

Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: mergers & acquisitions, private equity

Larry W. Sonsini

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate law | Specialties: governance, securities, mergers & acquistions

Bob Baradaran

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: real estate, corporate, sports, entertainment

Kirstin M. Ault

U.S. Attorney | Northern District of California | San Francisco | Specialty: criminal

Ahilan T. Arulanantham

ACLU of Southern California | Deputy Legal Director | Los Angeles

Jeremy B. Rosen

Horvitz & Levy LLP | Los Angeles | Practice area: Appellate | Specialties: Anti-SLAPP and First Amendment law

Luis J. Rodriguez

President, California Bar | Deputy Public Defender, Los Angeles County | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: criminal defense

Christopher Brearton

O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: transactions | Specialties: entertainment, sports, media

Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Los Angeles | Practice type: litigation | Specialties: civil rights, appellate and constitutional law, class action

Joseph Calabrese

O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: transactions | Specialties: entertainment, sports, media

Thomas P. Brown

Paul Hastings LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: litigation | Specialties: antitrust, privacy/data security

Shannon S. Broome

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: environmental litigation | Specialties: air quality, climate change, legislation, appeals

Cindy A. Cohn

Electronic Frontier Foundation | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: internet civil liberties

Erwin Chemerinsky

UC Irvine School of Law | Irvine | Professor of law | Specialties: constitutional law, civil rights and civil liberties

George S. Cardona

U.S. Attorney | Central District of California | Los Angeles | Specialty: criminal

A. Barry Cappello

Cappello & Noël LLP | Santa Barbara | Practice Type: complex commercial litigation | Specialties: lender liability, class actions, catastrophic personal injury matters, environmental litigation

Kelly M. Dermody

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: class actions, employment, consumer

Alan F. Denenberg

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP | Menlo Park | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: capital markets, mergers/acquisitions

Gordon K. Davidson

Fenwick & West LLP | Mountain View | Practice Type: Corporate Transactions | Specialty: capital markets

Patrick Gibbs

Latham & Watkins LLP | Menlo Park | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: securities litigation, professional liability

Keith Flaum

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Redwood Shores | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: mergers & acquisitions

Joseph Dunn

State Bar of California | Chief Executive Officer | San Francisco

Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld

Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Speciality: inmate rights

Daniel Grunfeld

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: commercial disputes

David B. Goodwin

Covington & Burling LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Insurance | Specialties: litigation, international arbitration

Andrei Iancu

Irell & Manella LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: litigation | Specialty: intellectual property

Cary Hyden

Latham & Watkins LLP | Costa Mesa | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: mergers & acquisitions, capital markets

Jonathan W. Hughes

Arnold & Porter LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: professional liability

John C. Hueston

Irell & Manella LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: litigation | Specialities: business trials, corporate crisis, white collar defense, business/general litigation, class-action defense

Charles S. Kim

Cooley LLP | San Diego | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: capital markets, debt securities transactions, life sciences, emerging companies, public companies

Jennifer L. Keller

Keller Rackauckas LLP | Irvine | Practice Type: trials | Specialties: commercial litigation, intellectual property, white collar criminal defense, securities litigation

Ronald O. Kaye

Kaye, Mclane Bednarski & Litt | Pasadena | Practice Type: criminal defense | Specialty: civil rights

Eric Jensen

Cooley LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: capital markets, emerging companies

Robert A. Mittelstaedt

Jones Day | San Francisco | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: antitrust, copyright, unfair business practice, employment law

Marcellus McRae

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: government contracts, white collar defense, international trade

Brian J. McCarthy

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: securities, mergers/acquisitions, transactions

Jonathan K. Layne

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Century City | Practice Type: corporate | Specialties: mergers/acquisitions, capital markets, board representations

Pierce O'Donnell

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: trials

Thomas J. Nolan

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: litigation | Specialties: securities, class-action consumer protection, government enforcement, white-collar crime

Anton N. Natsis

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: real estate | Specialties: development, leasing, purchase/sales, portfolio investment sales transactions

Alison S. Ressler

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Corporate transactions | Specialties: mergers & acquisitions, securities, corporate governance, private equity

Marvin S. Putnam

O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: commercial disputes

Glenn D. Pomerantz

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: antitrust, media, entertainment

Scott S. Slater

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP | Los Angeles & Santa Barbara | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: water, public lands

Jeffrey D. Saper

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: capital markets

R. Gregory Roussel

Fenwick & West LLP | Mountain View | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: mergers & acquisitions

Jane Ross

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | Redwood Shores | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: mergers/acquisions

David Sunkin

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: mergers/acquisitions, capital raising, general corporate

William Sullivan

Paul Hastings LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialty: securities litigation

Richard L. Stone

Jenner & Block LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: media & entertainment, antitrust & competition, trademark & advertising, unfair competition

Darryl Steinhause

DLA Piper | San Diego | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: real estate finance, capital markets

Laura A. Wasser

Wasser, Cooperman & Carter APC | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Family law | Specialty: community property, child custody

Thomas K. Vandiver

Dentons | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Finance | Specialties: municipal bond finance, affordable housing finance

Kenneth Ziffren

Ziffren Brittenham LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Entertainment | Specialty: entertainment, senior adviser to the Los Angeles Mayor's Office of Motion Picture and TV Production

Debra Wong Yang

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: white-collar defense, crisis management, corporate investigations

Robert A. Wyman Jr.

Latham & Watkins LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Environment, land/resources | Specialty: air quality/climate change

Patricia L. Glaser

Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: complex commercial disputes

Randolph C. Visser

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Regulatory law | Specialties: environmental matters

Kenton J. King

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: corporate governance, cross-border mergers/acquisitions, joint ventures, investment/capital market transactions, restructurings

Robert A. Van Nest

Keker & Van Nest LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: intellectual property, general commercial, antitrust

Martin D. Singer

Lavely Singer PC | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Entertainment | Specialties: defamation law, celebrity rights of privacy

Kelli L. Sager

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP | Los Angelesbr /> | Practice Type: Litigationbr /> | Specialty: media & entertainment, IP litigation

Alan C. Mendelson

Latham & Watkins LLP | Menlo Park | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialties: emerging companies, public company representation, life sciences

Mark D. Rosenbaum

ACLU Foundation of Southern California | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: Public Interest / Civil Rights

John B. Quinn

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: complex commercial disputes

Brian Panish

Panish Shea & Boyle LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: litigation | Specialty: personal injury/wrongful death

Craig A. Moyer

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Environment, national resources | Specialties: environmental law in the energy field

Michael A. Jacobs

Morrison & Foerster LLP | San Francisco | Practice Type: Litigation | Specialties: patent, copyright, trade secrets

Jorge A. del Calvo

Pillbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: mergers/acquisitions, public offerings, private placements

Craig Dauchy

Cooley LLP | Palo Alto | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: venture capital

Brad D. Brian

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP | Los Angeles | Practice type: litigation | Specialties: complex commercial, civil and criminal actions

John G. Branca

Ziffren Brittenham LLP | Los Angeles | Practice Type: Corporate | Specialty: entertainment

Bruce Bennett

Jones Day | Los Angeles | Practice Type: corporate/litigation | Specialty: business reorganization