Frost LLP
Nico L. Brancolini
as Attorney
in Los Angeles
from Conkle, Kremer & Engel .
Brancolini is a skilled litigator whose legal experience encompasses antitrust, class actions, general and international business litigation, music streaming and attendant intellectual property rights, products liability, and other matters. His work in complex litigation includes negotiating and executing substantial global settlements, often in the multi-million-dollar range, particularly in mass tort and class action cases.
Peter Pottier
as Attorney
in Los Angeles
from Loeb & Loeb LLP.
Pottier is an experienced litigator whose comprehensive practice includes commercial disputes, copyright infringement, intellectual property disputes, securities class actions, and advertising and promotions matters. Notably, he has worked extensively with music industry clients, representing artists and songwriters, and has significant knowledge of emerging technologies and entrepreneurship.
Kelly Li
as Of Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Weinberg Gonser LLP.
Li is an accomplished attorney with both in-house and major law firm experience advising and representing clients on complex business, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions, and real estate matters. She is fluent in Cantonese Chinese and has handled matters including commercial disputes, $100-million real estate developments, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, brand licensing and apparel agreements and disputes, manufacturing and supply chain logistics matters across the United States, Italy, Hong Kong, and China.
Nicholas D. Lauber
as Attorney
in Los Angeles
from Garrett & Tully, APC .
Lauber is an experienced litigator who began his career as a prosecutor, gaining unparalleled jury trial skills as a first-chair attorney. As a prosecutor he developed a reputation for his approach to a high volume of cases on behalf of victims of exploitation, violations of privacy, and abuse. He has defended clients, including law enforcement officers, in high-stakes civil rights litigation in state and federal court.
Ohia A. Amadi
as Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Akerman LLP.
Amadi has successfully represented plaintiffs and defendants in disputes involving investment and securities fraud and counseled clients in the financial services and securities industries in federal and state courts and before arbitration, regulatory, and enforcement forums, including the SEC, FINRA, the California Department of Business Oversight, and the California Department of Insurance.
Oppenheimer Investigations Group LLP
Alisha Meyer
as Attorney Investigator
in Oakland
from The Lucas Law Firm.
Meyer's practice concentrates on conducting thorough investigations into allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, abusive conduct, and other workplace misconduct issues within public and private entities. She joins OIG after nearly a decade of counseling plaintiffs on a wide range of employment disputes, including claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful and constructive termination, employment contracts, and workplace accommodations, and representing clients in all stages of employment litigation.
Address
1300 Clay Street, Suite 600 , Oakland 94612 USA
T:
(510) 393-4212
Haynes & Boone LLP
Jeffrey D. Morton
as Partner
in Orange County
from Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, .
Morton's practice focuses on the life sciences industry, where he primarily works for innovative companies on patent strategy and prosecution. Jeff has patent experience in technologies including genomics, immunology, and gene editing, and he advises on complex freedom-to-operate life sciences issues.
Daniel Mallet
as Partner
in Orange County
from Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP.
Mallet's practice focuses primarily on real estate finance transactions on behalf of clients such as national and regional banks, insurance debt funds, and private equity lenders. He has considerable experience documenting highly structured and complex construction and term loan lending facilities, as well as workouts and restructurings. His record of accomplishment includes the finance of major hotels and resorts, e-commerce-focused industrial and distribution centers, high-rise office buildings, biomedical research complexes, and skilled nursing facilities.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Peter P. Jones
as Partner
in Palo Alto
from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
Jones represents a broad range of private equity and other financial sponsor clients. He represented GIC in its $14 billion acquisition of STORE Capital Corporation, HPS Investment Partners in its investment in Authentic Brands Group, and Hg in a number of transactions. He is widely recognized as a rising star and a leader among the next generation of deal lawyers operating at the market's top end.
Michael S. Ringler
as Partner
in Palo Alto
from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
During his career, Ringler has represented large, well-established, and industry-leading companies as well as smaller industry disruptors in a wide range of technological verticals, such as semiconductors, networking, software, and the Internet. He often provides advice on mission-critical and transformative M&A transactions to boards, special committees, and management teams. Additionally, he advises boards and special committees when faced with challenges to corporate control, such as unsolicited acquisition proposals, proxy contests, and shareholder activism.
Tucker Ellis LLP
Steven E. Meyer
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.
Meyer has more than 30 years of experience defending clients in all types of civil litigation and has tried more than 25 cases to verdict. His courtroom experience involves products, environmental, toxic tort, real estate, business litigation, and other litigation matters. For decades, he has represented a deep, diverse client base defending designers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of automotive, industrial, and mechanical machinery, consumer products, and chemicals.
Jeffrey B. Stoltz
as Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP.
Stoltz defends businesses in complex product liability and toxic tort cases and repeat litigation. In more than 20 years of practice, he has developed expertise in defending national and international corporate clients in the consumer products industries and in the defense of manufacturers, retailers, suppliers, and premises owners in toxic tort and environmental litigation.
Brandon W. Lansche
as Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP.
Lansche, an experienced litigator and trial lawyer, defends businesses in high-risk product liability suits. He represents auto manufacturers, consumer product companies, medical device companies, insurers, and other businesses in product liability cases in state and federal courts across the United States. Lansche is known for winning legal arguments in motion practice, mediation, trial, and appeal, as well as the successful strategies he implements at all levels of the life of a case.
Brian Lee
as Associate
in Los Angeles
from UC San Francisco College of Law.
Brian Lee represents clients in all types of civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on product liability, premises liability, and medical malpractice defense. Practicing in both state and federal court, he is experienced in pre-suit counseling, as well as all phases of litigation, and has achieved successes in all types of resolution, including mediation, arbitration, and trial.
Anika Prednis
as Associate
in Orange County
Prednis assists individual and corporate clients in complex commercial and real estate litigation, preparing key documents at all stages of a dispute. She also counsels clients on litigation strategy and develops efficient solutions for alternative dispute resolution.
BakerHostetler
Isabelle Corbett Sterling
as Counsel
in San Francisco
from R3.
Sterling is a commodity and derivatives lawyer with a strong focus on blockchain technology and digital assets. She advises clients on various matters in those areas, including regulatory, enforcement, investigations, transactional and legislative. She has extensive experience in advocacy at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), prudential regulators, and on Capitol Hill on issues relating to emerging technology such as blockchain technology, cryptocurrencies, digital assets, and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), as well as futures, options, swaps, and commodity markets.
Venable LLP
Damon M. Pitt
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from K&L Gates LLP.
Pitt focuses his practice on class action, commercial litigation, and product liability defense cases. He represents product manufacturers and distributors in several industries, including consumer products, cosmetics, and electric vehicle charging equipment. He is highly regarded for his work in the commercial disputes space, specializing in deal litigation, contract disputes, and collections. He is a resilient and creative advocate, both in and outside of the courtroom.
Winston & Strawn LLP
Marlene J. Williams
as Of Counsel
in San Francisco
from Buchalter.
Williams advises clients to maximize the value of their brands and copyrights to avoid risks connected with the establishment of new brands and creative works. She has valuable experience working with both established organizations and emerging companies to strategically build trademark and copyright assets and protect the value of those assets.
Address
101 California Street , San Francisco 94111-5840 United States
T:
(415) 591-1000
Buchalter
Juan Pablo Albán
as Shareholder
in Los Angeles
from Stuart Alban Law PC .
Albán has more than 20 years of experience as a California attorney for top-ranked global law firms and has served as external general counsel for SEC-registered private fund managers and venture-stage operating companies, among others.
Miller Barondess, LLP
Steven G. Williamson
as Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Perkins Coie.
Williamson's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation in trial and appellate courts at the state and federal levels. He has extensive experience representing defendants and plaintiffs in complex business disputes, including mass torts, trade secret, non-compete, environmental, product liability, regulatory, and construction matters.
Address
2121 Avenue of the Stars, 26th Floor , Los Angeles 90067 United States
T:
(310) 552-4400
F:
(310) 552-8400
Youngman Reitshtein, PLC (YR)
Diane Lieu
as Of Counsel
in Youngman Reitshtein, PLC (Los Angeles)
Lieu specializes in family law and has worked in the U.S. and Korea, including at a major corporation.
Jinna Kang
as Partner
in Youngman Reitshtein, PLC (Los Angeles)
Kang is licensed to practice law in California, Washington, D.C., and Texas. She is one of only three board certified Family Law Specialists in California with Korean language fluency. She is also the first of only two Korean speaking fellows of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Kang has international experience and extensive history handling domestic violence matters.
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10507 W. Pico Boulevard , Los Angeles 90064 United States
T:
(310) 276-9442
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
Joshua R Vergules
as Associate
in San Francisco
from Entrepreneurs' Law Clinic Santa Clara University School of Law.
Vergules counsels clients on a variety of matters relating to business and corporate transactions and litigation, intellectual property, sports and entertainment, white-collar defense, and all forms of civil litigation.
Address
580 California Street Suite 1100 , San Francisco 94104 United States
T:
(415) 788-1900
Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney P.C.
Tina L Li
as Director
in San Francisco
LI joined the firm in March 2022 and has considerable experience counseling clients in matters relating to professional liability, cybersecurity, construction, medical malpractice, general liability, and defense of directors and officers. She has obtained a defense verdict on behalf of a homeowner's association, was granted the anti-SLAPP motion in an action against a homeowner's association and its directors and obtained judgment in favor of her client against a former director of a homeowner's association.
Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
Dorothy Groza
as Senior Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Empire.
Groza has an extensive background in commercial real estate and regulatory issues - including international and multi-state development, foreign investor and joint venture projects -- facilitating the acquisition, disposition, leasing and development of over $900 million in real estate transactions on behalf of clients in the hospitality, food and beverage, retail, multifamily and technology sectors.
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528 Palisades Drive, Suite 532 , Pacific Palisades 90272 United States
T:
(424) 320-9276
F:
(424) 273-1067
Sidley Austin LLP
Rebecca Stuart
as Partner
in Palo Alto
from Wilson Sonsini.
With more than 16 years of experience in the Silicon Valley, Stuart represents employers in federal and state court litigation and before administrative agencies regarding claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, wage and hour, wrongful termination, and several other types of employment law matters. She regularly consults with human resource professionals to advise on a wide range of HR matters, including personnel practices and policies, noncompete covenants, and worker classification. Stuart also has extensive experience with trade secret misappropriation issues and mergers and acquisitions, having advised on more than 500 transactions ranging in value from $20 million to $19 billion.
Judicate West
Judge Larry A. Burns
as Neutral
in San Diego
from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
A member of Judicate West's growing Federal Practice Group, Burns served 27 years on the bench for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, including two years as chief judge. He has presided over more than 300 federal jury trials, including high-profile cases involving elected officials, complex contract and tort disputes, and multi-district and class action litigation. Prior to his appointment, Burns tried more than 150 cases to verdict as a litigator and argued 40 cases before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Fox Rothschild LLP
Steven P. Gallagher
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Gallagher is an experienced litigator who defends employers in complex, bet-the-company litigation, mostly in wage-and-hour class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) actions, and FLSA collective actions.
Nicholas A. Koffroth
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Koffroth focuses his practice on complex bankruptcy cases and financial restructuring matters. His bankruptcy experience includes work in the commercial real estate, health care, commercial lending and entertainment sectors.
Joshua A. Bornstein
as Counsel
in Los Angeles
Bornstein represents clients in various entertainment and litigation matters, including business and personal torts, intellectual property, and contract disputes.
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
James Sigel
as Partner
in San Francisco
from Morrison Foerster.
Sigel has represented many clients in high-stakes state and federal appeals touching on securities, false advertising, intellectual property, trademark, environmental law, employment, labor, and ERISA issues. He has also defeated numerous consumer class actions and secured significant victories in antitrust appeals involving complex monopolization and conspiracy claims. An expert on constitutional, statutory, and regulatory issues, Sigel has filed well over one hundred briefs in various jurisdictions, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He has experience in the 9th Circuit and the California appellate courts, where he has presented oral arguments more than two dozen times. He gained a wealth of behind-the-scenes knowledge while serving as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and for judges on the California Supreme Court, the 9th Circuit, and the D.C. Circuit.
Schonbuch Hallissy LLP
Erin O. Hallissy
as Co-Managing Partner
in Brentwood
Hallissy handles a wide variety of cases as a civil defense trial lawyer. Erin has tried cases involving catastrophic automobile accidents with alleged traumatic brain injuries and spinal injuries, motorcycle accidents, wrongful death from a trench collapse, wrongful death assault and battery, mold resulting in personal injury and property damage, neighbor property lines disputes, construction defects, bad faith, and insurance coverage.
Michael Schonbuch
as Co-Managing Partner
in Brentwood
Schonbuch has tried and handled matters involving real estate and property disputes, real estate investment disputes, all types of business litigation, confidentiality and non-compete agreements, libel, slander and defamation, product liability, employment, wrongful termination and discrimination, catastrophic personal injury, wrongful death, construction defect, conversion, uniform trade secrets, entertainment and music litigation, fraud, assault and battery and many others.
Signature Resolution
Harold G. Becks
as Neutral
in Los Angeles
from Harold G Becks & Associates.
Becks has specialized in personal injury law, medical malpractice, and police misconduct litigation. His extensive trial experience includes representing notable entities such as the County of Los Angeles, Pacific Bell Telephone, and Fortune 500 companies like General Motors, Amtrak, and DuPont. Additionally, he has represented various insurers, including the Automobile Club of Southern California. In his new role as a mediator, Becks is poised to bring his wealth of experience and expertise to facilitate amicable resolutions in contentious disputes.
Nossaman LLP
Donald W. Meaders
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP.
Meaders practice focuses on employee benefits and ERISA, with a broad range of experience within the specialty. He has advised clients on critical issues related to institutional pension and welfare plans, both private and public. He is versed in fiduciary matters, tax compliance considerations as to both pension and welfare plans, and the concerns of institutional health plans as acquirors of managed and other health care services.
Everett Dorey LLP
Kristen Paolucci
as Senior Associate
in Irvine, CA
Paolucci's practice includes construction defect (SB-800 claims, risk management, insurance issues, contract and subcontract issues and evaluation, construction defect defense, WRAP policy projects, under-insured projects, carrier exhaustion issues, and material and product supplier issues); product liability; personal injury (wrongful death and injury cases); nuisance; trespass; and inverse condemnation. She has extensive experience representing general contractors, geotechnical engineers, civil and structural engineers, and other construction-related businesses in all types of litigation. She has successfully defended major insurance companies and corporate clients in both state and federal court.
Hans C. Ruschke
as Partner
in Irvine, CA
Ruschke is a seasoned civil litigator who represents businesses and corporations in catastrophic injury and property damage litigation. He also counsels and advises general contractors, construction-related businesses, and their insurance carriers in all types of litigation and risk management. Additionally, Hans has experience representing businesses in product liability matters. Hans is highly accomplished in defending major insurance companies and corporate clients in state courts, as well as in ADR proceedings, and has successfully tried cases in both San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Jeremy E. Beal
as Partner
in Irvine, CA
Beal specializes in first-party and third-party insurance coverage matters, complex insurance litigation, and property damage litigation. He provides counsel to insurers nationwide. He has extensive experience representing general contractors and insurers of general contractors in all manner of litigation and insurance coverage related matters. He also represents a wide range of businesses, providing counsel on contractual issues, formation, and litigation on public and private works projects.
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18300 Von Karman Suite 900 , Irvine 92612 United States
T:
(949) 771-9233
Isaacs • Friedberg • Zill LLP (formerly Isaacs Friedberg LLP)
Stacey L Zill
as Name Partner
in Los Angeles
Zill's practice is national in scope and focuses on acting in a general counsel role to nursing and rehabilitation centers and the representation of corporate and individual providers in complex healthcare litigation and transactions involving a wide range of matters and issues, including corporate governance, fraud, breach of contract and fiduciary duty, unfair competition, false claims act investigations and litigation, payment disputes, and regulatory compliance.
Isaacs • Friedberg • Zill LLP
Janine F Cohen
as Partner
in Los Angeles
Cohen represents companies and individuals in a wide variety of civil actions, including breach of contract, fraud, financial mismanagement, misappropriation of trade secrets, trademark counterfeiting, RICO, employment, personal injury, professional malpractice, commercial leasing, insurance coverage and class actions.
Judicate West
Judge David L. Belz
as Neutral
from Orange County Superior Court.
Belz was appointed to the Orange County Superior Court by then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009. Nine months after his appointment he was assigned to family court where he spent five years of his judicial tenure in the family law division, where he handled a wide variety of family law matters. In his nine years on the probate panel, Judge Belz handled trust, probate, guardianship and conservatorship trials. He was tasked with handling complex, long-cause trust trials and, ultimately, presided over 88 such trials.
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Michael Burshteyn
as Shareholder
in San Francisco
from Morrison Foerster.
Burshteyn litigates complex commercial disputes and class actions involving privacy, crypto, data security, AI, and other novel technology issues as well as startup controversies. He is lead counsel in multiple cases involving more than $100m in controversy. He also represents clients in cybercrime, crypto, and consumer protection investigations and regulatory inquiries.
Husch Blackwell LLP
Robert Hudock
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Hudock Employment Law Group.
Hudock is an experienced litigator with over two decades of experience defending employers in state and federal court on single-plaintiff and class action matters. He also defends employers when employees file complaints with the California Labor Commissioner's Office, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the federal Department of Labor, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and he assists clients with investigations by these and other agencies. His successes include jury, bench, and administrative trials and appellate litigation
Zelms Erlich Lenkov & Mack
Evan Parra-Raygoza
as Associate
in San Diego
from Hepburn, Hernandez, and Jung.
Parra-Raygoza focuses on family law and mediation.
Joseph A. Escarez
as Senior Counsel
in Los Angeles
from Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester.
Escarez focuses his practice on the defense of consumer class actions and other complex matters. He has defended a wide range of actions brought against national banks, credit card issuers, mortgage, auto, and fintech lenders, retailers, e-commerce companies, biotech and medical device companies, hospitality clients, and leading gig economy companies. He has significant experience defending against allegations of consumer fraud, unfair business practices, and federal and state regulatory statutes violations, including the federal FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, TILA, and California’s UCL and CLRA.
Tiffany E. Sohrabian
as Associate
in Los Angeles
from Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester.
Sohrabian has spent most of her career in the entertainment and sports industries, representing top MLB talent at a premier baseball agency, as well as cases for entertainment venues, sports teams and organizations, and retail and hospitality companies. Her practice now primarily focuses on defending premises liability, products liability, and general negligence cases for the Retail, Restaurant and Hospitality Team as well as the Entertainment and Sports Team.
Berta A. Blen
as Senior Counsel
in San Diego
from Tyson & Mendes.
Blen is an employment and labor attorney
Halley B. Thiel
as Associate
in Los Angeles
from Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester.
Thiel has worked exclusively with businesses and corporations, from startup assistance to litigation. Currently, her focus is on representing retail entities in state and federal court.
Andrew A. Razma
as Associate
in Los Angeles
from Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester.
Razma's practice is focused on product liability, in the retail, restaurant, and hospitality litigation field. He has worked on a variety of insurance defense cases involving premises liability, product liability, and motor vehicle accidents.
Sony Pictures
Jill H. Ratner
as General Counsel
in Los Angeles
from The Walt Disney Company.
Beginning May 28, Ratner will assume responsibility for Sony's legal functions, compliance and labor relations, music affairs, government/external affairs, and corporate social responsibility activities. She will report directly to CEO Tony Vinciquerra.
Zelms Erlich Lenkov & Mack
Tanya Prouty
as Partner
in Los Angeles
from Manning & Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, Trester.
Prouty's practice is focused on defending civil litigation matters, including general liability, premises liability, and product liability. Her prior legal experience includes defending wrongful death and medical malpractice matters.