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    2007

    Sep. 20, 2007

    Top 100

    In out tenth annual listing of the most influential lawyers in the state, we highlight the 14 lawyers who have been on the list every year since it began.

    In This Issue:

    John Van de Kamp

    Dewey Ballantine | Los Angeles

    Thomas J. Nolan

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Los Angeles

    Gretchen M. Nelson

    Kreindler & Kreindler | Los Angeles

    Thomas R. Malcolm

    Jones Day | Irvine

    Jan Nielsen Little

    Keker & Van Nest | San Francisco

    Fredericka Lynne Moore McGee

    Office of Speaker Fabian Nunez | Sacramento

    Robert McGahan

    U.S. Attorney's Office | Los Angeles

    Harvey Levine

    Levine, Steinberg, Miller & Huver | San Diego

    Carol Lam

    Qualcomm | San Diego

    Martin Singer

    Lavely & Singer | Los Angeles

    George J. Mihlsten

    Latham & Watkins | Los Angeles

    John "Jay" Lavely

    Lavely & Singer | Los Angeles

    Martin W. Korman

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Palo Alto

    Rodric Pacheco

    District Attorney's Office | Riverside

    Peter A. Wald

    Latham & Watkins | San Francisco

    Jose R. Padilla

    California Rural Legal Assistance | San Francisco

    Marc Van Der Hout

    Van Der Hout Brigagliano & Nightingale | San Francisco

    Peter H. Klee

    Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps | San Diego

    Kenneth Klee

    Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern | Los Angeles

    Raoul D. Kennedy

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | San Francisco

    John W. Keker

    Keker & Van Nest | San Francisco

    William L. Veen

    The Veen Firm | San Francisco

    Joseph M. Karp

    Winston & Strawn | San Francisco

    Michael P. Judge

    Public Defender's Office | Los Angeles

    Daniel Johnson Jr.

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | San Francisco

    Beth J. Jay

    California Supreme Court | San Francisco

    Charles James

    Chevron Corp. | San Ramon

    Fred Von Lohmann

    Electronic Frontier Foundation | San Francisco

    Vaughn R. Walker

    U.S. District Court | San Francisco

    Gerald F. Uelmen

    University of Santa Clara School of Law

    Kenneth W. Starr

    Pepperdine University School of Law | Kirkland & Ellis

    Michael J. Holston

    Hewlett-Packard Co. | Palo Alto

    Andrea Hoch

    Governor's Office | Sacramento

    Thelton E. Henderson

    U.S. District Court | San Francisco

    Kenneth G. Hausman

    Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin | San Francisco

    Joan M. Haratani

    Morgan, Lewis & Bockius | San Francisco

    Thomas V. Girardi

    Girardi & Keese | Los Angeles

    James J. Brosnahan

    Morrison & Foerster | San Francisco

    Justin Brooks

    California Western School of Law Innocence Project | San Diego

    Harry Brittenham

    Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman & Cook | Los Angeles

    Darryl M. Woo

    Fenwick & West | San Francisco

    Jeffrey S. Raynes

    Law Office of Jeffrey S. Raynes | Redlands

    Kathleen Sullivan

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges | Redwood Shores

    Alison S. Ressler

    Sullivan & Cromwell | Los Angeles

    Richard Marmaro

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | San Francisco, Los Angeles

    Michael E. Meyer

    DLA Piper | Los Angeles

    Top 100

    A Decade's Seismic Shift

    Seasoned attorneys have witnessed their profession undergo profound transformation over the course of 10 years. Advances in technology, consolidation and global expansion have lead veterans like Silicon Valley pioneer Larry Sonsini to to acknowledge he's observed more change in the last decade "than I'd seen in the prior three decades I had been practicing."

    Brian J. McCarthy

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Los Angeles

    J. Clark Kelso

    McGeorge School of Law | Sacramento

    Jerome Levine

    Holland & Knight | Los Angeles

    Kenneth Ziffren

    Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca, Fischer, Gilbert-Lurie, Stiffelman, Cook, Johnson, Lande & Wolf | Los Angeles

    Lucas Guttentag

    Immigrants' Rights Project of the ACLU | San Francisco

    Kent L. Richland

    Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland | Los Angeles

    William E. Grauer

    Cooley Godward & Kronish | San Diego

    Patricia Glaser

    Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil & Shapiro | Los Angeles

    Matthew D. Powers

    Weil, Gotshal & Manges | Redwood Shores

    Sharon B. Majors-Lewis

    Governor's Office | Sacramento

    Jennifer L. Keller

    Law Offices of Jennifer Keller | Irvine

    Jeremy D. Fogel

    U.S. District Court | San Jose

    Christopher F. Edley Jr.

    Boalt Hall School of Law | Berkeley

    Lawrence Lessig

    Stanford Law School | Palo Alto

    Maurice Suh

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | Los Angeles

    Dan Grunfeld

    Public Counsel | Los Angeles

    Nanci L. Clarence

    Clarence & Dyer | San Francisco

    Larry W. Sonsini

    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati | Palo Alto

    Carol A. Sobel

    Law Offices of Carol Sobel | Santa Monica

    Brad Seligman

    The Impact Fund | Berkeley

    Mark Rosenbaum

    ACLU of Southern California | Los Angeles

    John B. Quinn

    Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges | Los Angeles

    Dean D. Pregerson

    U.S. District Court | Los Angeles

    Gregory N. Pimstone

    Manatt, Phelps & Phillips | Los Angeles

    J. Terence O'Malley

    DLA Piper | San Diego

    Ronald L. Olson

    Munger, Tolles & Olson | Los Angeles

    Ronald M. George

    California Supreme Court | San Francisco

    Eric M. George

    Browne, Woods & George | Beverly Hills

    Keith A. Flaum

    Cooley Godward Kronish | Palo Alto

    Bertram Fields

    Greenberg Glusker | Los Angeles

    Edwin F. Feo

    Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy | Los Angeles

    Larry R. Feldman

    Kaye Scholer | Los Angeles

    Daralyn Durie

    Keker & Van Nest | San Francisco

    Scott J. Drexel

    State Bar of California | San Francisco

    Kenneth M. Doran

    Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher | Los Angeles

    Eliot G. Disner

    Disner Law Corporation | Los Angeles

    Mike Dillon

    Sun Microsystems Inc. | Santa Clara

    Joseph W. Cotchett Jr.

    Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy | Burlingame

    Jacqueline A. Connor

    Superior Court | Santa Monica

    Jerome L. Coben

    Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom | Los Angeles

    Morgan Chu

    Irell & Manella | Los Angeles

    Victoria G. Chaney

    Superior Court | Los Angeles

    Ralph A. Campillo

    Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold | Los Angeles

    Elizabeth J. Cabraser

    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein | San Francisco

    Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown Jr.

    California Attorney General | Oakland

    Brad Brian

    Munger, Trolles & Olson | Los Angeles

    Kevin R. Boyle

    Panish Shea & Boyle | Los Angeles

    Theodore J. Boutrous Jr.

    Gibson Dunn & Crutcher | Los Angeles

    Raymond P. Boucher

    Kiesel, Boucher & Larson | Beverly Hills

    Jeffrey L. Bleich

    Munger, Tolles & Olson | San Francisco

    Gary Blasi

    UCLA School of Law | Los Angeles

    Kenneth J. Baronsky

    Milbank, Tweed, Daley & McCloy | Los Angeles

    Ahilan T. Arulanantham

    ACLU of Southern California | Los Angeles

    Cristina C. Arguedas

    Arguedas, Cassman & Headley | Berkeley
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