Bentley P. Stansbury as Partner in Long Beach from Keesal, Young & Logan.

Stansbury focuses on financial services litigation, handling proceedings in state and federal court and arbitration. He represents clients in securities, employment, commercial, real estate and probate disputes and has secured large defense awards on behalf of broker-dealers, registered investment advisers, clearing firms, investment banks and financial advisers.

Melanie L. Ronen as Partner in Long Beach from Keesal, Young & Logan.

Ronen represents employers across a broad array of industries, advising on all aspects of employment law, including hiring, promotion, termination, privacy, wage and hour, disability and protected leave, and retaliation and whistleblower issues. She also litigates single-plaintiff employment disputes in state and federal courts and arbitration, as well as complex, class and Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions.

Neal S. Robb as Partner in Long Beach from Keesal, Young & Logan.

Robb brings over three decades of experience representing financial services firms and their executives in a broad array of complex and high-stakes commercial and general business litigation. He routinely defends securities firms, investment banks, credit card issuers, lenders, brokers and financial advisers in judicial and arbitration proceedings.

David D. Piper as Partner in Long Beach from Keesal, Young & Logan.

Piper has over two decades of experience advising individuals and global companies in commercial disputes, securities arbitration proceedings, privacy and cybersecurity matters, residential and commercial real estate issues, and all aspects of bankruptcy and insolvency.

Esther E. Cho as Partner in Charge in Long Beach from Keesal, Young & Logan.

Cho is a seasoned litigator with a particular focus on securities and regulatory matters. She regularly represents financial services firms in state and federal court and before arbitral tribunals in proceedings involving violations of state and federal securities laws and related rules and regulations.

Brian A. Paino as Partner in Los Angeles from McGlinchey Stafford.

Paino has almost 20 years of experience successfully representing mortgage servicers, lenders, and other financial services companies in litigation related to a wide range of state and federal consumer protection laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Telephone Consumer Protection Act, Truth-in-Lending Act, Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, California Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act, and California's Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. He also handles commercial litigation involving complex business disputes, bankruptcy matters, and federal, state, and bankruptcy appeals.

David T. Hayek as Partner in Los Angeles from Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani.

Hayek represents domestic insurers, syndicates, and consortiums in the London and European insurance markets. He handles first and third-party insurance coverage matters for clients in a broad range of industry sectors, including the sharing economy, aviation, real estate, environmental, and construction. He also represents companies in product liability and toxic tort liability cases and has an active appellate practice. Prior to entering private practice, Hayek served as a law clerk to former California Supreme Court Justice John A. Arguelles.

Thomas Andrew Schultz as Partner in Los Angeles

Schultz focuses his practice on representing plaintiffs in a variety of complex civil cases involving claims of catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, product liability and financial loss, as well as pharmaceutical and medical device cases. During his career as a plaintiff's attorney, Schultz has represented approximately 4,000 clients with $2 billion in settlements and verdicts on behalf of his clients.

Martin Stratte as Partner in San Francisco from LODE Gold.

Stratte is a natural resources and project development attorney who helps clients with permitting, rezonings, and related litigation throughout the US, including defense of permits that are challenged in court. He focuses his practice on the mining industry; his experience covers a wide variety of projects and land uses, including shopping centers, freight terminals, brownfields redevelopment, mitigation and conservation banking, and some of the largest distribution centers in Southern California. He is currently permitting offshore wind and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage (CCUS) projects. He also helps clients with due diligence, transactional work, and the resolution of alleged violations.

Will Wagner as Shareholder in Sacramento from Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP.

Wagner focuses his practice in the areas of consumer product defense and regulatory compliance in California. His practice centers on the defense of consumer claims involving California's unique Proposition 65 and consumer false advertising class actions. He defends companies such as personal care product brands, food and beverage producers, and textile companies in lawsuits relating to chemicals of concern including heavy metals, PFAS, titanium dioxide, hexavalent chromium, and phthalates.

Patrick Harder as Partner in Los Angeles from Nossaman.

Harder is the firm's North American co-head of Infrastructure. Public agencies actively seek his guidance in procuring some of the nation's largest, most important projects. Clients have confidence that Harder can mitigate risks, solve problems and advance their projects smoothly and successfully - often through cutting-edge approaches. His deep private sector background broadens his perspective in assisting public clients. Earlier in his career, he served as general counsel and executive manager for two of the world's largest construction and engineering firms, both based in Japan.

Roslyn Soudry as Principal in Los Angeles from Law Offices of Roslyn Soudry.

Soudry's practice focuses on the dissolution of marriage, spousal and child support matters-marital agreements, post-marital agreements, and paternity matters. She works with high-net-worth individuals, wealthy business owners, sports and entertainment clients, television producers, attorneys, physicians, investment advisors and owners of substantial real estate.

Daniel Wu as Partner in Los Angeles from Buchalter.

Wu joins the Business Litigation practice, where he represents national and regional banks, financial institutions, software companies, and business entities across many different industries in complex commercial litigation.

Lily N. Chinn as Partner in San Francisco from Baker Botts.

Chinn advises clients in the tech, energy, and manufacturing sectors on environmental concerns, workplace safety, trust and safety protocols, and corporate governance. Whether addressing these matters individually or collectively, she assists companies in strengthening their compliance frameworks to mitigate risks while negotiating advantageous resolutions to multifaceted government inquiries. She has extensive experience as a trial attorney for the DOJ's Environmental Defense Section and as a prosecutor in the Computer Crimes and Intellectual Property Section.

Katherine A. Tuohy as Associate in San Diego from Slater Slater Schulman LLP .

Tuohy served as a judicial extern for Judge Joseph N. Laplante of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire. In this role, she conducted legal research and provided analysis and proposed dispositions for motions and proceedings in both criminal and civil cases. Additionally, she gained litigation experience as a student attorney for the New Hampshire Public Defender, assisting in representing criminal clients in all phases of felony and misdemeanor cases.

Gabriela M. Vasquez as Associate in San Diego from Hanson Crawford Crum.

Vasquez represents high-net-worth individuals in dissolution actions and complex family law cases and regularly consults with forensic accountants, prepares clients for mediation, and drafts marital settlement agreements. Previously, Vasquez practiced civil litigation, handling premise liability and product liability cases.

Taylor D. Horn as Counsel in San Francisco from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Horn provides employers with advice and representation, helping them navigate California’s employment laws and avoid litigation. When litigation is inevitable, Taylor guides his clients through all phases. He helps employers with a range of matters, from single-plaintiff wrongful termination suits to large wage-and-hour class and representative actions.

Kent M. Roger as Senior Counsel in San Francisco from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Roger represents clients in labor and employment law matters, as well as antitrust litigation and investigations, with a focus on the maritime, energy, high-technology, automotive and mobility, and transportation industries. He litigates class action and complex business disputes at trial, on appeals, and in arbitrations involving alleged cartels, monopolies, predatory pricing, and other unfair competition matters.

Clifford D. Sethness as Partner in Los Angeles from Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Sethness handles and oversees the full range of employment litigation in federal and state court, and arbitrations. His cases range from a federal court wage-hour class action alleging over $1 billion in damages, to multiplaintiff discrimination and retaliation claims, to contentious single-plaintiff termination and failure to promote claims.

Gina Binder as Special Counsel in Los Angeles from The Hartford .

Binder is a workers' compensation litigator and advisor, providing counsel to insurers, employers, and third-party administrators across California. With over 12 years of dedicated focus on workers' compensation defense, she has a wealth of experience managing cases from inception to settlement or trial. Binder excels in developing discovery, settlement, and litigation strategies tailored to the unique needs of each case and client. She is a skilled negotiator with a record of accomplishing favorable outcomes for her clients. In addition to her legal skills, she empowers her clients through education, equipping employers with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the complexities of California workers' compensation.

Ellyn Garofalo as Office Managing Shareholder in Los Angeles

Garofalo is an experienced trial attorney whose practice focuses on the defense and prosecution of complex civil matters including breach of contract claims, partnership disputes, securities and investor fraud claims, real estate litigation, and other business disputes. Her practice also includes a wide range of criminal and regulatory matters, including white collar criminal defense and SEC enforcement actions. In her three decades of courtroom experience, she has defended clients in matters involving allegations of securities, bank, mortgage, health care, internet, and tax fraud. She joined the firm in 2021.

Johanna Bracy as Neutral in Los Angeles from Bracy Mediation.

In her mediation career, Bracy has successfully settled hundreds of disputes and has expertise with employment, real estate and business matters. In 2020, she founded her own mediation firm, Bracy Mediation. She has also worked as a corporate attorney representing regulated industries, a public interest lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and as a management-side labor relations executive.

Bryan Kirsh as Managing Trial Attorney in Los Angeles

Kirsh specializes in employment law. He assisted in securing several notable verdicts on behalf of his clients.

Nare Kupelian as Associate in Los Angeles from The Dominguez Firm.

Kupelian represents consumers and misclassified employees. She brings thoughtful analysis and creative thinking to her practice, which focuses on employee rights, consumer protections, and privacy and data breaches.

Jason J. Kim as Partner in Los Angeles

Kim focuses his practice on class action defense and other complex commercial litigation in the data breach, financial services and consumer contexts. He has represented clients at trial and on appeal in all manner of business disputes and has litigated multiple highly publicized data breach class actions, financial services class actions and consumer class actions for a broad spectrum of Fortune 500 companies.

Laura M. Franco as Member in San Francisco from Winston & Strawn LLP.

Franco's practice encompasses trademark prosecution, brand enforcement and protection, and IP licensing. She represents start-ups to Fortune 500 companies across a wide variety of industries, including financial services, technology, video games, entertainment, and consumer products. She leverages her extensive knowledge of global brand protection and in-house experience with a video game developer, Laura provides guidance on all aspects of trademark portfolio development and management. Clients also seek her counsel on intellectual property matters related to financing, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.

Sophia Tao as Associate in San Francisco from Rimon PC.

Tao brings a wealth of knowledge to the team. Before joining our firm, she was a paralegal at a well-known San Francisco personal injury law firm where her duties included filing pleadings, trial management motions, and organizing discovery responses for personal injury cases. She also served as a judicial extern for the 1st District Court of Appeal during law school where she researched legal issues on appeal and prepared draft legal memoranda. She is very committed to seeking justice for those injured in accidents and to ensuring they are fairly compensated for their losses.

Felton T. Newell as Co-Managing Partner in Los Angeles from Sanders Roberts, LLP.

Newell is an experienced trial attorney who provides sophisticated legal counsel to corporate and individual clients. In his 25 years of practice, Newell has successfully represented clients, including Fortune 100 companies, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals, in complex business litigation, entertainment litigation, and employment litigation matters.

Brian Coleman as Partner in Palo Alto from Perkins Coie.

Coleman counsels in all aspects of intellectual property law including patent and trademark prosecution. An entrepreneur, lawyer and engineer, he represents companies in industries such as enterprise software, robotics, medical software and technology, artificial intelligence, clean tech, fintech, gaming, and Web3. His services include portfolio management, blue sky patent development, handling IP audits and strategy, opinions of counsel, prelitigation patent defense and assertion, appeals, reissues, and reexaminations.

Brent Johnson PhD. as Partner in Irvine from Maschoff Brennan Gilmore Israelsen & Mauriel LLP.

Johnson focuses his practice on intellectual property matters, including patent prosecution and generating and managing portfolios in life sciences and other chemistry and material-based sciences. His experience includes post-grant proceedings with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board, IP due diligence, and IP import/export issues. Brent counsels life sciences and medical device industry clients in a wide range of areas, including pharmaceutical and chemistry-related technologies.

Nili T. Moghaddam as Partner in Los Angeles and San Francisco from Bungalow.

Moghaddam will split her time between the firm's Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She brings a diverse skill set to the firm, focusing on corporate litigation, white-collar defense, and trial work. She has spent the past five years in increasingly senior in-house roles at digital tech startups, including financial services platform Robinhood, where she was one of the unicorn's first lawyers and quickly rose to Head of Litigation & Investigations. Before working in-house, Nili served six years as an Assistant United States Attorney at the United States Attorney's Office for the Central District of California, where she investigated, prosecuted, and tried complex cases involving national security, racketeering, and financial offenses.