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2013 Top 20 Under 40 - plus 5 associates to watch


Feb. 27, 2013

Top Under 40

This is the 20th year we've published the list, and the remarkable thing is that the pool of worthy candidates gets deeper every year. As you read through this supplement, we think you'll agree that California's legal talent is some of the best you'll find anywhere in the world.


In This Issue:

John Higginbotham

City of Corona | Corona | Litigation: employment

Victor Viramontes

Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | Los Angeles | Nonprofit civil rights: immigrant rights, employment, education

Eric P. Enson

Jones Day | Los Angeles | Antitrust and unfair competition law: civil and criminal antitrust and unfair competition defense

Brian T. Glennon

Latham & Watkins LLP | Los Angeles | Litigation: securities litigation, professional liability, white collar/government investigations

Lisa Greenwald-Swire

Fish & Richardson PC | Redwood City | Intellectual property, licensing, litigation: trademark

Glenn Danas

Capstone Law APC | Los Angeles | Labor and employment/consumer: class actions, appellate, arbitration law

Christopher J. Banks

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP | San Francisco | Litigation: commercial, intellectual property

Anjali Jaiswal

Natural Resources Defense Council | San Francisco | Environmental defense: climate change, clean energy, international energy policy, impact litigation

Theane Evangelis Kapur

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | Los Angeles | Constitutional law, class actions, media/entertainment: appellate

Stacey M. Sprenkel

Morrison & Foerster LLP | San Francisco | Securities litigation, white collar defense: anti-corruption, securities class actions

Samantha N. Hoffman

Jackson Lewis LLP | Orange County | Litigation: labor/ employment law

Will Chuchawat

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP | Los Angeles | Corporate: mergers and acquisitions

Theona Zhordania

McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP | Los Angeles | Business/insurance litigation: securities fraud, RICO claims, anti-SLAPP litigation

Alex Weingarten

Weingarten Brown LLP | Los Angeles | Business litigation: entertainment, sports, intellectual property

Daniel N. Webb

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP | Palo Alto | Corporate: capital markets, mergers and acquisitions

Heather S. Tewksbury

U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division | San Francisco | Prosecutor, criminal antitrust cases: international cartels

Michael Mugmon

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP | Palo Alto | Securities litigation and enforcement: securities fraud

Elizabeth L. McKeen

O'Melveny & Myers LLP | Newport Beach | Litigation: financial services

Jeremy S. Johnson

Bremer Whyte Brown & O'Meara LLP | Newport Beach | Business litigation: complex civil litigation, corporate matters

David Tsai

Perkins Coie LLP | San Francisco, Taipei | Litigation: intellectual property

Crystal Lofing

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP | Los Angeles | Real estate: commercial transactions

Andrea Saunders Rifenbark

Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP | Los Angeles | Finance, joint ventures, acquisitions/dispositions: public pension funds

Brent Brehm

Kantor & Kantor LLP | Northridge | Employment Retirement Income Security Act: insurance law

Robert Hulse

Fenwick & West LLP | Mountain View | Intellectual property: patent prosecution/counseling

Stuart A. Graiwer

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP | Los Angeles | Transactional: real estate